Interstate 70 East - Colby to Oakley

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The Colby Safety Rest Areas line Interstate 70 by mile marker 49.
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The first distance sign referencing Topeka along Interstate 70 eastbound.
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K-25 (Range Avenue) meets I-70 on the south side of Colby at Exit 53.
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K-25 runs 18.26 miles south from Exit 53 to combine with U.S. 40 west to Page City en route to the Wichita County seat of Leoti.
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K-25 (Range Avenue) leads north 2.22 miles to U.S. 24 (W 4th Street) in central Colby and 31.01 miles to U.S. 36 in Atwood.
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Country Club Drive / County Road 20 leads north from the succeeding exit to U.S. 24 (E 4th Street) near Downtown Colby.
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Interstate 70 angles southeast from mile marker 55 toward Oakley.
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County Road K crosses Interstate 70 at Exit 62, midway between Colby and U.S. 83 north of Oakley.
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U.S. 83 converges with I-70, 14.14 miles south from U.S. 24 at Exit 70.
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Guide signs for Exit 70 originally only displayed Oakley for U.S. 83. Added was Oberlin, seat of Decatur County, located 55 miles back to the north and then east.
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Rexford lies 24.0 miles to the north along U.S. 83. 18 miles shorter, a more direct route to the small city is via K-25 and U.S. 24 from Colby to U.S. 83 north.
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The guide sign at Exit 70 for U.S. 83 was removed by 2018. Monument Rocks Natural Area lies in southwest Gove County, east of U.S 83 near the Smoky Hill River.
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U.S. 83 south was formerly part of Business Loop I-70 to the Oakley business district. The loop returned to I-70 alongside U.S. 40 at Exit 76.
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Interstate 70 angles southeast well outside the Oakley city limits.
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U.S. 40 runs along the south side of Oakley from the diamond interchange at Exit 76 west to the north split of U.S. 83.
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County Road A spans Interstate 70 along the Logan County line.
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U.S. 40 travels 71.04 miles from Exit 76 to Monument, Winona, the Wallace County seat of Sharon Springs and the Colorado line west of Weskan.
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Interstate 70 enters northwestern Gove County across a Union Pacific Railroad line.
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Exit 76 departs I-70 east for U.S. 40 west into Oakley and Old Highway 40 east to Campus.
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U.S. 40 combines with U.S. 83 north in 2.22 miles. U.S. 83 south leads from Oakley to Scott City and Garden City.
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Business Loop I-70 through Oakley formerly overlapped with U.S. 40 west to Freeman Avenue. The 7.9 mile long route followed Front Street west and Carter Avenue through Downtown.
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U.S. 40 overlaps with Interstate 70 east to Topeka.
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K-216 constitutes a 0.58 mile long spur north from Exit 85 into the city of Grinnell.
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K-216 concludes along Old Highway 40 west ahead of Adams Street in Grinnell.
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K-23 travels ten miles north from the Gove County seat of Gove City to the diamond interchange at Exit 93.
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North from Exit 93, K-23 lines Old Highway 40 east to the city of Granfield. K-23 ALT stems north along Main Street to the Grainfield business district.
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K-23 Spur links I-70/U.S. 40 east with K-23 north to Hoxie from Exit 95.
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K-23 bee lines 17.23 miles north from K-23 Spur to U.S. 24 in Hoxie. The state highway concludes at U.S. 83/K-383 northeast of Selden in 36.06 miles.
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County Road 50 extends south from the diamond interchange (Exit 95) with K-23 Spur.
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The Grainfield Safety Rest Areas lie just east of the exchange with K-23 Spur at mile marker 97.
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Although acknowledge as K-23, K-23 Spur constitutes a 0.35 mile long connector north to K-23 at Old Highway 40.
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The succeeding exit from I-70/U.S. 40 east is with K-211 north to the city of Park.
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A 1.03 mile long route, K-211 runs north from County Road 58 and east along Old Highway 40 into Park ahead of Cedar Street.
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