Historic National Road - Indiana
Historic National Road - Indiana is a State Scenic Byway in Indiana. Within Indiana it covers roughly 150 miles. The map below shows its route. Use “Plan a drive” to open it in the Road Sorties route planner — already routing along Historic National Road - Indiana with scenic roads turned on, ready to add your own stops.
US-40 crosses central Indiana along the route of the National Road, the early-1800s federal highway that opened the country westward. It runs straight through Indianapolis and a string of county-seat towns, past old roadhouses, brick alignments, and roadside relics from the highway's heyday. Interpretive markers trace two centuries of westward travel.
- National Road heritage
- US-40
- Indianapolis
- historic roadhouses
- westward-travel history
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What is a State Scenic Byway?
State Scenic Byways are roads a state has formally recognized for their scenic, natural, historic or cultural value — each state's own curated collection of drives worth taking slowly.