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{{Short description|Highway in Indiana}}
{{Highway detail hatnote|U.S. Route 30}}
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{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2023}}
{{Use American English|date=November 2024}}
{{Infobox road
| state = IN
| type = US
| route = 30
| map = {{maplink|frame=yes|plain=yes|frame-align=center|frame-width=290|frame-height=240|type=line|from=U.S. Route 30 in Indiana.map}}
| map_custom = yes
| map_notes = US 30 highlighted in red
| length_mi = 156.217
| length_ref = <ref name="indot" />
| established = November 11, 1926<ref name="USH">{{cite web |url = https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/numbers.cfm |title = From Names to Numbers: The Origins of the US Numbered Highway System |last = Weingroff |first = Richard F. |publisher = [[Federal Highway Administration]] |access-date = August 23, 2012 |date = January 9, 2009 |archive-date = May 21, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110521204506/http://wwwcf.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/numbers.cfm |url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="USHM">{{cite map |author1 = [[Bureau of Public Roads]] |author2 = [[American Association of State Highway Officials]] |date = November 11, 1926 |title = United States System of Highways Adopted for Uniform Marking by the American Association of State Highway Officials |url = https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_System_of_Highways_Adopted_for_Uniform_Marking_by_the_American_Association_of_State_Highway_Officials.jpg |scale = 1:7,000,000 |location = Washington, DC |publisher = [[United States Geological Survey]] |oclc = 32889555 |access-date = November 7, 2013 |via = [[Wikimedia Commons]] |name-list-style = amp |archive-date = April 13, 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170413153913/https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_System_of_Highways_Adopted_for_Uniform_Marking_by_the_American_Association_of_State_Highway_Officials.jpg |url-status = live }}</ref>
| direction_a = West
| terminus_a = {{Jct|state=IL|US|30}} at the [[Illinois]] state line in [[Dyer, Indiana|Dyer]]
| direction_b = East
| junction = *{{Jct|state=IN|US|41}} in [[Schererville, Indiana|Schererville]]
*{{Jct|state=IN|I|65}} in [[Merrillville, Indiana|Merrillville]]
*{{Jct|state=IN|US|421}} in [[Wanatah, Indiana|Wanatah]]
*{{Jct|state=IN|US|31}} in [[Plymouth, Indiana|Plymouth]]
*{{Jct|state=IN|US|35}} near [[Hanna, Indiana|Hanna]]
*{{Jct|state=IN|US|33}} near [[Fort Wayne, Indiana|Fort Wayne]]
*{{Jct|state=IN|I|69}} in Fort Wayne
*{{Jct|state=IN|US|27|SR|3}} in Fort Wayne
*{{Jct|state=IN|I|469}} near [[New Haven, Indiana|New Haven]]
| terminus_b = {{Jct|state=OH|US|30}} at the [[Ohio]] state line near [[Monroeville, Indiana|Monroeville]]
| counties = [[Lake County, Indiana|Lake]], [[Porter County, Indiana|Porter]], [[LaPorte County, Indiana|LaPorte]], [[Starke County, Indiana|Starke]], [[Marshall County, Indiana|Marshall]], [[Kosciusko County, Indiana|Kosciusko]], [[Whitley County, Indiana|Whitley]], [[Allen County, Indiana|Allen]]
| previous_type = SR
| previous_route = 29
| next_type = US
| next_route = 31
}}
'''U.S. Route 30''' ('''US 30''') is a part of the [[United States Numbered Highway System]] that runs from [[Astoria, Oregon]], to [[Atlantic City, New Jersey]]. In Indiana, the route runs from the Illinois state line at [[Dyer, Indiana|Dyer]] to the Ohio state line east of [[Fort Wayne, Indiana|Fort Wayne]] and [[New Haven, Indiana|New Haven]]. The {{convert|156.217|mi|km}} of US 30 that lie within Indiana serve as a major conduit. The entire length of US 30 in Indiana is included in the [[National Highway System (United States)|National Highway System]] (NHS). The highway includes four-lane rural sections, an urbanized four-lane divided expressway, and several high-traffic six-lane [[freeway]] areas. First designated as a U.S. Highway in 1926, US 30 replaced the original State Road 2 (SR 2) and SR 44 designation of the highway which dated back to the formation of the Indiana State Road system. A section of the highway originally served as part of the [[Lincoln Highway]]. Realignment and construction projects have expanded the highway to four lanes across the state, and the road is now part of a long stretch of US 30 from [[New Lenox, Illinois]], to [[Canton, Ohio]], where the road has at least four lanes (excluding ramps). There are over 40 traffic signals between [[Interstate 65 in Indiana|Interstate 65]] (I-65) at [[Merrillville, Indiana|Merrillville]] and [[Interstate 69 in Indiana|I-69]] at Fort Wayne.

==Route description==
The entire length of US 30 in Indiana is included in the [[National Highway System (United States)|NHS]],<ref name="NHS Map of Indiana">{{cite map |author = [[Federal Highway Administration]] |date = March 5, 2010 |title = National Highway System: Indiana |scale = Scale not given |location = Washington, DC |publisher = Federal Highway Administration |url = http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/nhs/maps/in/in_Indiana.pdf |format = PDF |access-date = August 18, 2012 |archive-date = June 7, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110607054242/http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/nhs/maps/in/in_indiana.pdf |url-status = dead }}</ref> a network of highways that are identified as being most important for the economy, mobility and defense of the U.S.<ref name=NHS>{{cite web |url = http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/nhs/ |title = National Highway System |access-date = August 18, 2012 |date = August 26, 2010 |publisher = Federal Highway Administration |archive-date = May 23, 2013 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130523021349/http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/national_highway_system/ |url-status = dead }}</ref> The highway is maintained by the [[Indiana Department of Transportation]] (INDOT), similar to all other U.S. Highways in the state. The department tracks the traffic volumes along all state highways as a part of its maintenance responsibilities using a metric called [[annual average daily traffic]] (AADT), calculated along a segment of roadway for any average day of the year. In 2010, INDOT figured that lowest traffic levels were 10,870 vehicles and 4,750 commercial vehicles used the highway daily between US 31 and [[Indiana State Road 331|SR 331]]. The peak traffic volumes were 69,280 vehicles and 12,660 commercial vehicles AADT along a section of US 30 that is [[Concurrency (road)|concurrent]] with I-69, between the Lima Road (exit 311) and Coldwater Road (exit 312) exits in Fort Wayne.<ref name="AADT">{{cite web |url = http://dotmaps.indot.in.gov/apps/trafficcounts/ |title = INDOT Traffic Zones |publisher = Indiana Department of Transportation |year = 2010 |access-date = August 20, 2012 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110505203005/http://dotmaps.indot.in.gov/apps/trafficcounts/ |archive-date = May 5, 2011 }}</ref>

===Illinois to Valparaiso===
US 30 enters [[Dyer, Indiana|Dyer]] from [[Lynwood, Illinois]], along the original alignment of the [[Lincoln Highway in Indiana|Lincoln Highway]], as a four-lane divided highway. At Moeller Street, the roadway becomes a four-lane highway with a center turn lane before reaching an [[at-grade intersection]] with [[CSX Transportation]] railroad tracks. Thereafter, the road returns to four-lane divided highway before a [[traffic light]] at [[U.S. Route 41 in Indiana|US 41]] in [[Schererville, Indiana|Schererville]] and passing under [[Norfolk Southern Railway]] tracks. After US 41, the original alignment of the Lincoln Highway leaves US 30 and continues along the same route as old [[Indiana State Road 330|SR 330]]. US 30 begins to curve toward the southeast, still as a four-lane divided highway. The highway has a traffic light at [[Indiana State Road 55|SR 55]], heading east as the roadway enters [[Merrillville, Indiana|Merrillville]], where the route becomes a six-lane divided highway and has an interchange at [[Interstate 65 in Indiana|I-65]]. At Colorado Street in Merrillville, the road narrows back to a four-lane divided highway.<ref name="Google Maps" /><ref name="INDOT 2012 Map" /><ref name="INDOT Railroad map" />

[[File:US Route 30 in Indiana.jpg|thumb|left|310px|US 30 in Indiana]]
After a traffic light at the southern terminus of [[Indiana State Road 51|SR 51]] in [[Hobart, Indiana|Hobart]], the original alignment of the Lincoln Highway rejoins US 30. The highway passes through a mix of farmland and residential properties on the way to [[Valparaiso, Indiana|Valparaiso]], entering the city and passing through commercial properties. The highway has a traffic light at [[Indiana State Road 2|SR 2]] at the western end of the concurrency of the two roads. From there, the road crosses railroad tracks, passes south of [[Valparaiso University]], and has a traffic light at the eastern terminus of [[Indiana State Road 130|SR 130]]. After passing the traffic light at SR 130, the road has a full interchange with [[Indiana State Road 49|SR 49]] and the eastern terminus of the [[Indiana State Road 2|SR 2]] and US 30 concurrency. Continuing east, the road passes [[Porter County Regional Airport]] and proceeds east-southeast from Valparaiso, toward [[Plymouth, Indiana|Plymouth]].

===Valparaiso to Allen County===
After leaving the Valparaiso area, US 30 passes through rural farmland, with an intersection at [[U.S. Route 421 in Indiana|US 421]] northeast of [[Wanatah, Indiana|Wanatah]] and an at-grade railroad crossing with the [[Chesapeake & Indiana Railroad]]. East of the railroad tracks is an intersection with [[Indiana State Road 39|SR 39]] and a bridge across the [[Kankakee River]].<ref name="Google Maps" /><ref name="INDOT 2012 Map" /><ref name="INDOT Railroad map" /> Then the route briefly swings slightly to the north of the old Lincoln Highway alignment to accommodate an interchange at [[U.S. Route 35 in Indiana|US 35]].

US 30 runs along the north side of Plymouth, passing through an interchange with the northern terminus of [[Indiana State Road 17|SR 17]] and near [[Plymouth Municipal Airport (Indiana)|Plymouth Municipal Airport]]. The route curves around the northeast side of the city, having a major interchange with [[U.S. Route 31 in Indiana|US 31]] before heading east-southeast toward [[Warsaw, Indiana|Warsaw]]. At [[Bourbon, Indiana|Bourbon]], the highway has an interchange with [[Indiana State Road 331|SR 331]]. The road curves east before entering Warsaw and has an interchange with [[Indiana State Road 15|SR 15]], south of [[Warsaw Municipal Airport (Indiana)|Warsaw Municipal Airport]]. After passing the airport, the road enters a mix of commercial and residential properties. As it bypasses Warsaw, the highway passes through a highly commercial area and has nine traffic signals within {{Convert|4|mi|km|spell=in}}, causing frequent traffic backups. One of these is a traffic light at an old alignment of the Lincoln Highway, before US 30 passes north of [[Winona Lake, Indiana|Winona Lake]] and heads toward [[Columbia City, Indiana|Columbia City]].

At Columbia City, the road turns southeast and has traffic lights at [[Indiana State Road 109|SR 109]], [[Indiana State Road 9|SR 9]], and [[Indiana State Road 205|SR 205]], again closely spaced, resulting in frequent congestion. After SR 205, US 30 heads east toward [[Fort Wayne, Indiana|Fort Wayne]], paralleling the [[Chicago, Fort Wayne and Eastern Railroad]].<ref name="Google Maps" /><ref name="INDOT 2012 Map" /><ref name="INDOT Railroad map" />

===Allen County to Ohio===
====Western Allen County====
[[File:US 30 west of Fort Wayne, Indiana.jpg|thumb|right|325px|US 30 west of Fort Wayne]]
US 30 crosses into [[Allen County, Indiana|Allen County]] at a signalized intersection with [[Whitley County, Indiana|Whitley County]] Road 800 East (signed as County Line Road). After passing a pair of abandoned rest areas, the four-lane divided highway with partial access control then becomes a full access controlled freeway just east of the signalized intersection at Kroemer Road. Immediately thereafter, there is a [[trumpet interchange]] with [[U.S. Route 33 in Indiana|US 33]] (Goshen Road), at the western terminus of US 33's concurrency with US 30. From there, the joined routes proceed southeast as a six-lane (counting auxiliary lanes) freeway, passing under Hillegas Road, to a [[cloverleaf interchange]] with [[Interstate 69 in Indiana|I-69]]. At that junction, US 33 joins southbound I-69 (and westbound [[U.S. Route 24 in Indiana|US 24]]), while US 30 loops to the north, to run concurrent with both northbound I-69 and eastbound US 24. The through lanes revert to an urban arterial and continue southeast into Fort Wayne as Goshen Road, carrying [[Indiana State Road 930|SR 930]] to Coliseum Boulevard.

====Fort Wayne to New Haven====
US 30's concurrency with I-69 is a six-lane urban Interstate with interchanges at Lima Road ([[U.S. Route 27 in Indiana|US 27]] and [[Indiana State Road 3|SR 3]]) and Coldwater Road (formerly [[Indiana State Road 327|SR 327]] and, prior to that, US 27). At the interchange of I-69 and [[Interstate 469|I-469]], US 30 heads east concurrent with I-469 to loop around the north and east sides of Fort Wayne, heading toward [[New Haven, Indiana|New Haven]]. I-469 is a four-lane Interstate passing through a mix of farmland and suburban residential properties. Initially proceeding east, the interstate crosses the [[St. Joseph River (Maumee River tributary)|St. Joseph River]] and has an interchange at Maplecrest Road before turning southeast, then south around the northeast side of Fort Wayne to subsequent interchanges with [[Indiana State Road 37|SR 37]] followed by US 24. After the US 24 interchange, the Interstate crosses the [[Maumee River]] and Norfolk Southern Railway tracks before US 30 departs I-469 east of downtown New Haven at the eastern terminus of SR 930.

====Eastern Allen County====
After I-469, US 30 heads southeast away from New Haven, passing through rural farmland as a four-lane divided highway with partial access control. The route bypasses the tiny hamlets of [[Zulu, Indiana|Zulu]], [[Tillman, Indiana|Tillman]], and [[Townley, Indiana|Townley]] with an intersection at [[Indiana State Road 101|SR 101]] just to the north of the latter. US 30 completes its journey across the Hoosier State and enters Ohio (at State Line Road), continuing southeast toward [[Van Wert, Ohio|Van Wert]].<ref name="Google Maps">{{google maps |url=https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Joliet+St&daddr=U.S.+30+E&hl=en&ll=40.95916,-86.154785&spn=2.439162,4.581299&sll=40.997994,-84.803494&sspn=0.00119,0.002237&geocode=FTAoeQId8XjI-g%3BFcCUcQIdVADy-g&mra=me&mrsp=1,0&sz=19&t=h&z=8 |title=Overview of US 30 in Indiana |access-date=August 20, 2012}}</ref><ref name="INDOT 2012 Map">{{cite map |url = http://www.in.gov/indot/files/StateTransportationMap.pdf |location = Indianapolis |publisher = Indiana Department of Transportation |title = Indiana Transportation Map |year = 2011–2012 |sections = A3–A5 |access-date = August 20, 2012 |author = Indiana Department of Transportation |archive-date = December 15, 2010 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101215222535/http://www.in.gov/indot/files/StateTransportationMap.pdf |url-status = dead }}</ref><ref name="INDOT Railroad map">{{cite map |location = Indianapolis |publisher = Indiana Department of Transportation |date = August 23, 2011 |url = http://www.in.gov/indot/files/MAIN-RR-11_V1.pdf |title = Indiana Railroad Map |format = PDF |author = Indiana Department of Transportation |access-date = August 20, 2012 |archive-date = June 15, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110615200542/http://www.in.gov/indot/files/MAIN-RR-11_V1.pdf |url-status = dead }}</ref>

==History==
[[File:Lincoln Highway porcelain sign.svg|thumb|right|100px|Lincoln Highway shield]]
The Lincoln Highway was planned in 1913 to run west to east across Indiana, including to [[South Bend, Indiana|South Bend]] and Fort Wayne. In 1915, the highway opened, passed through downtown Fort Wayne on its route through Indiana,<ref name="News-Sentinel May 2009">{{cite news |title = Lincoln Highway: Road's hidden past could be route to future |first1 = Kevin |last1 = Leininger |newspaper = [[The News-Sentinel]] |location = Fort Wayne |oclc = 8807796  |date = May 5, 2009 |page = 1A }}</ref> and was assigned the designation of Main Market route number 2 in 1917.<ref name="1917 Indiana State Highway Map and State Highway Commission">{{cite map |url = http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=1002216 |location = Indianapolis |publisher = Indiana State Highway Commission |title = Report of State Highway Commission |map = 1917 Indiana State Highway Map and State Highway Commission |access-date = September 1, 2012 |author = Indiana State Highway Commission |archive-date = September 29, 2012 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120929050802/http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=1002216 |url-status = dead }}</ref><ref name="INDOT 1917">{{cite map |url = http://bl-libg-doghill.ads.iu.edu/gm-web/imdb/inhwy1917.jpg |location = Indianapolis |publisher = Indiana State Highway Commission |title = Indiana Main Market Highway Map |date = June 1, 1917 |access-date = September 1, 2012 |author = Indiana State Highway Commission |archive-date = March 11, 2009 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090311003959/http://bl-libg-doghill.ads.iu.edu/gm-web/imdb/inhwy1917.jpg |url-status = live }}</ref> Further designations saw the route become SR 2 from the Illinois state line to Valparaiso, SR 44 Valparaiso to Fort Wayne, and SR 2 from Fort Wayne to the Ohio state line. In the early 1920s, the Lincoln Highway was moved south between Valparaiso and Fort Wayne, to what is now known mostly as Old US 30, passing through Plymouth and Warsaw.<ref name="Lincoln Highway History 2001">{{cite news |url = http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:AWNB:GPTB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=0FF67932F8529B54&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=0B0A2F7372D54C748F8A8C4C17175B68 |title = You don't have to look hard, old route through Northwest Indiana still exists |first1 = Tim |last1 = Zorn |newspaper = [[Post-Tribune (Indiana newspaper)|Post-Tribune]] |location = Gary |oclc = 2266386 |access-date = August 23, 2012 |date = October 19, 2001 |page = LH4 |archive-date = April 17, 2014 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140417000252/http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:AWNB:GPTB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=0FF67932F8529B54&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=0B0A2F7372D54C748F8A8C4C17175B68 |url-status = live }}</ref> A section of US 30 in Dyer known as the "ideal section" of the Lincoln Highway was opened in 1923 and rebuilt in the 1990s.<ref name="US 30:The region's road">{{cite news |title = US 30: The region's road |first1 = Vanessa |last1 = Renderman |first2 = Phil |last2 = Wieland |newspaper = [[Munster Times|The Times]] |location = Munster, Indiana  |oclc = 42819936 |date = October 3, 2010 }}</ref><ref name="The Lincoln Highway">{{cite web |url = https://highways.dot.gov/highway-history/general-highway-history/lincoln-highway |title = The Lincoln Highway |first = Richard |last = Weingroff |date = April 7, 2011 |access-date = August 22, 2012 |publisher = Federal Highway Administration |archive-date = March 29, 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160329221754/http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/lincoln.cfm |url-status = live }}</ref> In 1924, the sections of the road that were part of the original Lincoln Highway was paved,<ref name="INDOT 1923">{{cite map |url = http://indiamond6.ulib.iupui.edu/u?/HIM,286 |location = Indianapolis |publisher = Indiana State Highway Commission |title = Indiana Transportation Map of 1923 |date = September 30, 1923 |access-date = August 22, 2012 |author = Indiana State Highway Commission }}</ref><ref name="INDOT 1924">{{cite map |url = http://bl-libg-doghill.ads.iu.edu/gm-web/imdb/inhwy1924.pdf |format = PDF |location = Indianapolis |publisher = Indiana State Highway Commission |title = Indiana Transportation Map of 1924 |date = September 30, 1924 |access-date = August 22, 2012 |author = Indiana State Highway Commission |archive-date = March 10, 2009 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090310234509/http://bl-libg-doghill.ads.iu.edu/gm-web/imdb/inhwy1924.pdf |url-status = live }}</ref> followed by the paving of the rest of US 30, which was commissioned in 1926.<ref name="The Lincoln Highway" /><ref name="INDOT 1925">{{cite map |location = Indianapolis |publisher = Indiana State Highway Commission |title = Indiana Transportation Map of 1925 |date = September 30, 1925  |author = Indiana State Highway Commission }}</ref><ref name="INDOT 1926">{{cite map |location = Indianapolis |publisher = Indiana State Highway Commission |title = Indiana Transportation Map of 1926 |date = September 30, 1926  |author = Indiana State Highway Commission }}</ref> In 1927, a small realignment between [[Hanna, Indiana|Hanna]] and SR 29 (current US 35) took place.<ref name="INDOT 1926" /><ref name="INDOT 1927">{{cite map |url = http://bl-libg-doghill.ads.iu.edu/gm-web/imdb/inhwy1927.pdf |location = Indianapolis |publisher = Indiana State Highway Commission |title = Indiana Transportation Map of 1927 |date = September 30, 1927 |access-date = August 22, 2012 |format = PDF |author = Indiana State Highway Commission |archive-date = March 10, 2009 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090310234331/http://bl-libg-doghill.ads.iu.edu/gm-web/imdb/inhwy1927.pdf |url-status = live }}</ref>

Prior to the construction of Coliseum Boulevard (a "circumurban" highway around Fort Wayne), US 30 followed a route through the city. Entering from the west, the route followed Goshen Avenue southeast to an intersection with Sherman Boulevard, where it turned to the south. After crossing the [[St. Marys River (Indiana and Ohio)|St. Marys River]], the route entered downtown Fort Wayne on Van Buren Street, before quickly departing to the east on Superior Street. The route then turned south onto Fairfield Avenue, continuing to the one-way system of Washington Boulevard (westbound) and Jefferson Boulevard (eastbound). East of downtown, the route followed the present-day alignment of SR 930 through New Haven and beyond. After the construction of the circumurban bypass, this route was kept signed as a "city" route.<ref>{{cite map |author = United States Geological Survey |year = 1956 |title = Fort Wayne West, Ind. |url = https://bl-libg-doghill.ads.iu.edu/gm-web/topos/IN7.5min/900554.jpg |type = Topographic map |series = 7.5-minute |scale = 1:24,000 |location = Reston, Virginia |publisher = United States Geological Survey |access-date = July 24, 2024 |via = Indiana University }}</ref><ref>{{cite map |author = United States Geological Survey |year = 1956 |title = Fort Wayne East, Ind. |url = https://bl-libg-doghill.ads.iu.edu/gm-web/topos/IN7.5min/900551.jpg |type = Topographic map |series = 7.5-minute |scale = 1:24,000 |location = Reston, Virginia |publisher = United States Geological Survey |access-date = July 24, 2024 |via = Indiana University |archive-date = September 14, 2024 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240914071651/http://bl-libg-doghill.ads.iu.edu/gm-web/topos/IN7.5min/900551.jpg |url-status = live }}</ref>

In 1953, US 30 in Fort Wayne was rerouted to a "circumurban" highway that was built along portions of the alignments of Beuter Road and California Road, to bypass most of Fort Wayne. This route, later renamed Coliseum Boulevard since it passes directly by [[Allen County War Memorial Coliseum]], quickly became a congested urban highway in its own right as it was not built to freeway standards. In 1998, US 30 in Fort Wayne was rerouted onto I-69 and I-469, becoming a true controlled access freeway bypass for most of Fort Wayne and New Haven on the north and east side of the two cities. The old Coliseum Boulevard routing was assigned the SR 930 designation as a result, when local officials refused to let INDOT fully decommission the route and turn responsibility for it over to the cities or the county.<ref name="busy Coliseum Boulevard">{{cite news |url = http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090924/NEWS/909240315/0/FRONTPAGE |date = September 8, 2009 |last = Leininger |first = Kevin |access-date = August 30, 2012 |title = We need solution for Indiana 930 |newspaper = The News-Sentinel |location = Fort Wayne |oclc = 8807796 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170917171435/http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20090924%2FNEWS%2F909240315%2F0%2FFRONTPAGE |archive-date = September 17, 2017 |url-status = dead }}</ref>

==Future==
INDOT has plans to convert US 30 to a freeway from [[Valparaiso, Indiana|Valparaiso]] to the Ohio state line.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Truscio |first1=Marcus |title=Northern Indiana leaders discuss future of US 30 corridor |url=https://www.wane.com/top-stories/northern-indiana-leaders-discuss-future-of-u-s-30-corridor/ |access-date=August 7, 2024 |work=Wane15 |date=July 17, 2024}}</ref>

==Major intersections==
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|cspan=2
|location=Davis Township
|ctdab=Starke
|mile=48.360
|road={{Jct|state=IN|US|35|city1=Knox|city2=LaPorte}}
|notes=interchange}}
{{INint
|location=Grovertown
|mile=54.558
|road={{Jct|state=IN|SR|23|city1=Walkerton|city2=Koontz Lake}}}}
{{INint
|county=Marshall
|cspan=3
|location=Plymouth
|lspan=2
|mile=64.797
|road={{Jct|state=IN|SR|17|dir1=south|city1=Plymouth}}
|notes=Northern terminus of SR 17; interchange}}
{{INint
|mile=67.070
|road={{Jct|state=IN|US|31|city1=South Bend|city2=Indianapolis}}
|notes=Exit 225 on US 31; interchange}}
{{INint
|location=Bourbon
|mile=75.831
|road={{Jct|state=IN|SR|331|city1=Bremen|city2=Bourbon|city3=Mishawaka}}
|notes=interchange}}
{{INint
|county=Kosciusko
|cspan=3
|location=Etna Green
|mile=80.075
|road={{Jct|state=IN|SR|19}}}}
{{INint
|location=Warsaw
|mile=90.500
|road={{Jct|state=IN|SR|15|city1=Warsaw|city2=Goshen}}
|notes=interchange}}
{{INint
|location=Pierceton
|mile=99.626
|road={{Jct|state=IN|SR|13|city3=North Manchester|city2=Syracuse|city1=North Webster|location4=[[Manchester University (Indiana)|Manchester University]]}}}}
{{INint
|county=Whitley
|cspan=4
|location=Larwill
|mile=104.111
|road={{Jct|state=IN|SR|5|city2=South Whitley|city1=Ligonier|city3=Huntington}}}}
{{INint
|location=Columbia City
|lspan=3
|mile=111.258
|road={{Jct|state=IN|SR|109|dir1=north|road|Line Street|city1=Wolf Lake}}}}
{{INint
|mile=111.580
|road={{Jct|state=IN|SR|9|city3=Columbia City|city1=Albion|city2=Huntington}}}}
{{INint
|mile=112.857
|road={{Jct|state=IN|SR|205|city3=South Whitley|city2=Churubusco|city1=Columbia City}}}}
{{INint
|county=Allen
|cspan=13
|location=Fort Wayne
|lspan=7
|type=concur
|mile=127.588
|road={{Jct|state=IN|US|33|dir1=north|Lincoln||city2=Churubusco|city1=Elkhart}}
|notes=Western end of US 33 concurrency}}
{{INint|exit
|type=concur
|mile=127.971
|mile2=128.212
|exit=309
|road={{Jct|state=IN|I|69|US|24|US|33|dir1=south|dir2=west|dir3=south|city1=Indianapolis}}<br/>{{Jct|state=IN|IN|930|dir1=east|Lincoln||city1=Fort Wayne|name1=Goshen Road}}
|notes=Southern end of I-69 concurrency; western end of US 24 concurrency; eastern end of US 33 concurrency; western end of SR 930}}
{{INint|exit
|mile=129.993
|exit=311
|road={{Jct|state=IN|US|27|SR|3|dir1=south|dir2=north|road|Lima Road|city1=Fort Wayne|city2=Kendallville}}
|notes=Northern terminus of US 27; southern terminus of SR 3}}
{{INint|exit
|mile=131.295
|exit=312
|road=Coldwater Road
|notes=Serves [[IPFW]], [[Ivy Tech]], [[Allen County War Memorial Coliseum]], and [[Glenbrook Square]]}}
{{INint|exit
|type=concur
|mile=134.003
|exit=315<br>31
|road={{Jct|state=IN|I|69|dir1=north|location1=[[Lansing, Michigan|Lansing MI.]]}}<br/>{{Jct|state=IN|I|469|dir1=east}}
|notes=Northern end of I-69 concurrency; western end of I-469 concurrency; exit 315 on I-69 and exit 31 on I-469}}
{{INint|exit
|exit=29
|mile=136.258
|road=Maplecrest Road
}}
{{INint|exit
|mile=140.250
|exit=25
|road={{Jct|state=IN|SR|37|dir1=north|road|Maysville Road|city1=Fort Wayne|location2=[[Hicksville, Ohio|Hicksville]]}}
|notes=Southern terminus of SR 37}}
{{INint|exit
|location=New Haven
|lspan=2
|type=concur
|mile=143.951
|exit=21
|road={{Jct|state=IN|US|24|dir1=east|road|Rose Avenue}}
|notes=Eastern end of US 24 concurrency}}
{{INint|exit
|type=concur
|mile=145.404
|exit=19
|road={{Jct|state=IN|I|469|SR|930|dir1=south|dir2=west|Lincoln||city1=New Haven|city2=Fort Wayne}}
|notes=Southern end of I-469 concurrency; eastern terminus of SR 930}}
{{INint|exit
|espan=4
|location=Jefferson Township
|ctdab=Allen
|mile=147.233
|road={{Jct|state=IN|Lincoln|}}}}
{{INint
|location=Monroe Township
|ctdab=Allen
|lspan=3
|mile=152.835
|road={{Jct|state=IN|SR|101|city1=Townley|city3=Monroeville|city2=Woodburn}}}}
{{INint
|mile=155.907
|road={{Jct|state=IN|Lincoln|}}}}
{{INint
|mile=156.217
|road={{Jct|state=OH|US|30|dir1=east|Lincoln||city1=Van Wert|city2=Upper Sandusky|city3=Mansfield}}
|notes=Ohio state line}}
{{Jctbtm|exit|keys=concur}}

==See also==
*{{Portal-inline|U.S. Roads}}
*{{Portal-inline|Indiana}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
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* [https://propelus30.com/ ProPEL US 30] (INDOT study)
* {{Commons category-inline|U.S. Route 30 in Indiana|US 30 in Indiana}}

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[[Category:U.S. Highways in Indiana|30]]
[[Category:U.S. Route 30| Indiana]]
[[Category:Lincoln Highway|U.S. Route 030 in Indiana]]
[[Category:Expressways in the United States]]
[[Category:Transportation in Fort Wayne, Indiana]]
[[Category:Transportation in Lake County, Indiana]]
[[Category:Transportation in Porter County, Indiana]]
[[Category:Transportation in LaPorte County, Indiana]]
[[Category:Transportation in Starke County, Indiana]]
[[Category:Transportation in Marshall County, Indiana]]
[[Category:Transportation in Kosciusko County, Indiana]]
[[Category:Transportation in Whitley County, Indiana]]
[[Category:Transportation in Allen County, Indiana]]

U.S. Route 30 in Indiana - Revision history

IrmaBracy4216 at 15:55, 1 March 2026