Lincoln Highway

Travel through urban cityscapes, cozy riverfront towns, and rolling prairie on Illinois 179-mile portion of the Lincoln Highway. From its eastern portal at Lynwood to its Mississippi crossing at Fulton, entertainment and adventure can be found around every corner. The Illinois Lincoln Highway is designated as a National Scenic Byway, and is the only state on the entire Lincoln Highway route to achieve this national designation. Come celebrate America s first successful transcontinental highway as you travel across the Illinois Route, where every mile is a story!

Length

178.8 mi / 287.7 km

Time to allow

Take five to six hours to visit the entire byway.

Fees

There are no fees to drive the byway.

We publish 3 places that sit on this road, listed in the order you meet them. This is not a route and not a drive time — it is the names, so you can put them into whatever navigation you already use.

Of those, 1 is a roadside oddity — the sort of thing you would drive past without knowing it was there.

“Off” is a straight line from the place to the road, rounded. It is not a driving distance, and the road itself is a simplified centre line, so treat a mile or two as noise.