The Arkansas Department of Transportation (ARDOT) had released its Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) for the 2025-2028 Federal Fiscal Years, and the major project in our area is for U.S. Highway 412, or U.S. Highway 62/412 as it’s known in north central Arkansas.
Highway 412 in Arkansas, which traverses the state from Oklahoma to Missouri, was designated as a High Priority Corridor by Congress in the 1991 Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act. The Highway 412 Corridor is important to the economy of northern Arkansas, and ARDOT has invested $480 million on this corridor since 2014.
This STIP includes $4 million for bridge replacement projects, $24 million in capacity improvement projects, $339 million in capital improvement projects and $47 million of pavement preservation projects to improve the Highway 412 Corridor.
In our area, projects include:
-Adding passing lanes between Mountain Home and Salem at a cost of $40 million in 2027.
-Adding passing lanes between Yellville and the Boone County line at a cost of $20 million in 2027.
-Repaving selected sections of an 8.65 mile section in Marion County at a cost of $3.7 million at a date to be determined.
-Adding passing lanes between the Marion County line and Bellefonte at a cost of $11.5 million in 2025.
-Major work in the city of Harrison including intersection improvements and major widening of the highway from Industrial Park Road to Arkansas Highway 7 South at a cost of $18.1 million in 2025 and intersection improvements and signal coordination at a cost of $1.1 million in 2025.
-Also in Boone County, they will repave U.S. Highway 65 from the Missouri state line to Highway 62/412 at a cost of $11.9 million at a date to be determined, repave U.S. Highway 65B to Maxie Camp Road at a cost of $1.3 million at a date to be determined, and repave Highway 65 from south of Arkansas Highway 206 to Arkansas Highway 123 at a cost of $1.2 million at a date to be determined.
The STIP will be presented to the Highway Commission in October for consideration. Once they approve it, it then goes to the Federal Highway and Federal Transit Administrations for their review and approvals.
In our next story, we will have details on more projects expected to happen in the Twin Lakes Area in the coming years.
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