Fact Box

Interstate 65

Length- 887 miles

South end- Mobile, AL

North end- Gary, IN

States served- AL, TN, KY,  IN

Interstate 65 (I-65) is a major Interstate Highway in the eastern United States. Its southern terminus is located at an intersection with I-10 in Mobile, Alabama, and its northern terminus is at an interchange with I-90, U.S. Route 12 (US 12), and US 20 (the Dunes Highway) in Gary, Indiana, just southeast of Chicago.

Major intersections

Alabama

I‑10 in Mobile

I‑85 in Montgomery

I‑20 / I‑59 in Birmingham

I‑565 near Decatur and Huntsville

Tennessee

I-24 in Nashville

I-40 in Nashville

Kentucky

I-64 / I-71 in Louisville

Indiana

I-465 / I-74 in Indianapolis

I-70 in Indianapolis

I-80 / I-94 in Gary

I-90 / US 12 / US 20 in Gary

The future I-22 near Birmingham will join and cross beneath I-65 before terminating at US 31 just a few blocks away. The target date for the completion of the final sections of the new route is 2014. Construction began August 1, 2010.

Auxiliary routes

• I‑165, serving the communities of Pritchard and Mobile
• I‑565, A spur beginning in Decatur, Alabama and terminating in Huntsville, Alabama
• I-265, the Kentucky segment of an incomplete beltway around Metro Louisville and called the Gene Snyder Freeway
• I-265, the Indiana segment of an incomplete beltway around Metro Louisville and called the Lee H. Hamilton Freeway
• I-465, a full beltway around Indianapolis
• I-865, a connection between I-65 and I-465 on the northwest side of Indianapolis.