Shawnee Mission Parkway

Route description

• U.S. Route 56 - US 56 has always followed Shawnee Mission Parkway since its commissioning. It leaves its concurrency with I-35 in Merriam and follows Shawnee Mission Parkway into Missouri
• U.S. Route 69 - US-69 follows Shawnee Mission Parkway from I-35 in Merriam to Metcalf Avenue in Overland Park, where it turns north. Before the 18th Street Expressway was built, US-69 was concurrent with US-169 in southern Overland Park and followed Metcalf before heading east on SMP and north on Rainbow, the current route of US-169
• U.S. Route 169 - US-169 follows Shawnee Mission Parkway from I-35 in Merriam to Rainbow Boulevard in Mission Woods, where it heads north to Kansas City.

  History

• K-10 - K-10 followed Shawnee Mission Parkway from K-7 to Merriam Drive. Shawnee Mission Parkway was signed as Spur K-10 for 0.25 mile to I-35 to bridge the gap to US-56.
• K-12 - When the current K-10 expressway was originally completed between K-7 and I-435, it was originally signed as K-12. When the entire expressway was completed from Lawrence to I-435 in Lenexa, K-10 was signed for the entire freeway, and K-12 was realigned to follow the old K-10 routing on Shawnee Mission Parkway to Merriam Drive. The former Spur K-10 was then resigned as Spur K-12. K-12 was decommissioned in 1992.
• U.S. Route 50 - US 50 used to follow Shawnee Mission Parkway from I-35 into Missouri. When I-435 was completed, US 50 was rerouted to overlap I-435 into Missouri
• K-58 - the original K-58 followed Shawnee Mission Parkway from Metcalf Avenue in Overland Park to Roe Avenue in Mission until its 1979 decommissioning

  Cities traveled

• Shawnee, Kansas
• Merriam, Kansas
• Overland Park, Kansas
• Mission, Kansas
• Roeland Park, Kansas
• Fairway, Kansas
• Westwood, Kansas
• Mission Woods, Kansas
• Kansas City, Missouri

  Major Junctions

• in Shawnee, KS
• in Shawnee, KS
• Maurer Road in Shawnee, KS
• Lackman Road in Shawnee, KS
• Merriam Drive in Merriam, KS
• in Merriam, KS
• in Mission, KS
• Johnson Drive in Fairway, KS
• in Mission Woods, KS
• in Kansas City, MO