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| length_mi = 2900.76
| length_ref = <ref name="FHWA log">{{cite web |date=December 31, 2021 |title=Table 1: Main Routes of the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System Of Interstate and Defense Highways |url=https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/national_highway_system/interstate_highway_system/routefinder/table01.cfm |access-date=June 8, 2022 |work=FHWA Route Log and Finder List |publisher=[[Federal Highway Administration]] |archive-date=July 3, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170703213613/https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/national_highway_system/interstate_highway_system/routefinder/table01.cfm |url-status=live }}</ref>
| established = 1956
| history = Completed in 1986
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===Utah===
{{main|Interstate 80 in Utah}}
After crossing [[Utah]]'s western border in [[Wendover, Utah|Wendover]], I-80 crosses the desolate [[Bonneville Salt Flats]] west of the [[Great Salt Lake]]. The longest stretch between exits on an Interstate Highway is located between Wendover and [[Knolls, Utah|Knolls]], with {{convert|37.4|mi|km}} between those exits.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Carey|first1=Anne|title=Top 16 longest gaps between Interstate exits|url=http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2011/08/longest-distances-between-exits-on-US-freeways-415029/1|access-date=January 17, 2017|work=[[USA Today]]|date=August 15, 2011|archive-date=June 30, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170630190754/http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2011/08/longest-distances-between-exits-on-US-freeways-415029/1|url-status=live}}</ref> This portion of I-80, crossing the [[Great Salt Lake Desert]], is extremely flat and straight, dotted with large warning signs about [[driver fatigue]] and drowsiness.
East of the salt flats, I-80 passes the southern edge of Great Salt Lake and continues on through [[Salt Lake City]], where it merges with [[Interstate 15|I-15]] for {{convert|3|mi|km|spell=in}} before entering the [[Wasatch Range]] east of the city. It ascends [[Parleys Canyon]] and passes within a few miles of [[Park City, Utah|Park City]] as it follows a route through the mountains toward the junction with the eastern terminus of the western section of [[Interstate 84 (Oregon–Utah)|I-84]]. From the junction it continues up Echo Canyon and on toward the border with [[Wyoming]], near [[Evanston, Wyoming|Evanston]].
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In [[Clearfield County, Pennsylvania|Clearfield County]], I-80 reaches its highest elevation east of the Mississippi River, {{convert|2250|ft|m}}, although other Interstate Highways east of the Mississippi, including [[Interstate 26|I-26]] in North Carolina and Tennessee, reach higher elevations.
In 2007, the [[Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission]] (PTC), combined with state legislature Act No. 44, initiated plans to enact a tolling system on the entire span of I-80 throughout the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. On October 15, 2007, the [[Pennsylvania Department of Transportation]] (PennDOT) and the PTC signed a 50-year lease agreement, which would allow the PTC to maintain and, eventually, toll I-80.<ref name=Inquirer>{{cite web |last = Nussbaum |first = Paul |title = I-80 toll plans moving forward |work = [[The Philadelphia Inquirer]] |date = October 17, 2007 |url = http://www.philly.com/philly/news/homepage/10595797.html }}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> However, the application for a toll was rejected by the [[Federal Highway Administration]] (FHWA).<ref>{{cite press release |author = Federal Highway Administration Public Affairs |url = http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/pressroom/fhwa1006.cfm |title = Federal Highway Administration Declines Pennsylvania Request to Toll I-80 |date = April 6, 2010 |publisher = Federal Highway Administration |access-date = October 4, 2014 |archive-date = October 6, 2014 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141006141511/http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/pressroom/fhwa1006.cfm |url-status = live }}</ref>
===New Jersey===
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==History==
I-80 was included in the original plan for the [[Interstate Highway System]] as approved in 1956. The highway was built in segments, with the final piece of I-80 completed in 1986 on the western edge of [[Salt Lake City]]. This piece was coincidentally dedicated close to the 30th birthday of the Interstate Highway System, which was noted at the dedication and considered to be a milestone in the history of highway construction in the United States.<ref name=highwayhistory>{{cite journal |first = Richard |last = Weingroff |date = Fall 1986 |url = http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/30thannv.cfm |journal = U.S. Highways |title = America Celebrates 30th Anniversary of the Interstate System |publisher = Federal Highway Administration |access-date = December 28, 2013 |archive-date = October 24, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111024114212/https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/30thannv.cfm |url-status = live }}</ref> It was also noted at the dedication that this was only {{convert|50|mi|km}} south of [[Promontory Summit]], where another first in a transcontinental artery was completed—the [[golden spike]] of the US's [[first transcontinental railroad]].<ref name=nytimes>{{cite news |url = https://www.nytimes.com/1986/08/25/us/around-the-nation-transcontinental-road-completed-in-utah.html |title = Around the Nation: Transcontinental Road Completed in Utah |newspaper = [[The New York Times]] |agency = [[Associated Press]] |date = August 25, 1986 |oclc = 1645522 |access-date = May 13, 2013 |archive-date = March 16, 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170316115134/http://www.nytimes.com/1986/08/25/us/around-the-nation-transcontinental-road-completed-in-utah.html |url-status = live }}</ref>
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