{"id":7,"date":"2026-06-29T21:36:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T21:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usroute281.com\/w1\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2026-07-14T16:27:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:27:01","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/usroute281.com\/w1\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Welcome to USRoute281.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This website is intended to bring you information related to US Route 281.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>History<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Points of Interest<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Trip Planning<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Current Events<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">US Route 281<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Is a major North-South highway<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Spans 1,875 miles<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Runs from the Canadian border to Brownsville, Texas (or, arguably, Pharr, Texas)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Crosses North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Runs largely through rural country<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Is the longest continuous three-digit U.S. Route<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Was originally part of the Military Telegraph Road<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>U.S. Route 281<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"597\" src=\"https:\/\/usroute281.com\/w1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/US_281_map-1024x597.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19\" srcset=\"https:\/\/usroute281.com\/w1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/US_281_map-1024x597.png 1024w, https:\/\/usroute281.com\/w1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/US_281_map-300x175.png 300w, https:\/\/usroute281.com\/w1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/US_281_map-768x448.png 768w, https:\/\/usroute281.com\/w1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/US_281_map-1536x895.png 1536w, https:\/\/usroute281.com\/w1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/US_281_map.png 1688w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">25or6to4, CC BY-SA 3.0 <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\">https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0<\/a>, via Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/usroute281.com\/w1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260709_152652-Small.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-38\" srcset=\"https:\/\/usroute281.com\/w1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260709_152652-Small.jpg 640w, https:\/\/usroute281.com\/w1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260709_152652-Small-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The section of the highway that goes through Red Cloud, Nebraska is actually surfaced in brick. It is being reconstructed. <a href=\"https:\/\/usroute281.com\/w1\/index.php\/red-cloud-project\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"12\">Go here to see snapshots and video of the reconstruction Project.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to USRoute281.com This website is intended to bring you information related to US Route 281. US Route 281 U.S. Route 281 25or6to4, CC BY-SA 3.0 https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons The section of the highway that goes through Red Cloud, Nebraska is actually surfaced in brick. It is being reconstructed. Go here to see snapshots [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"iawp_total_views":33,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usroute281.com\/w1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usroute281.com\/w1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usroute281.com\/w1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usroute281.com\/w1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usroute281.com\/w1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/usroute281.com\/w1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39,"href":"https:\/\/usroute281.com\/w1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usroute281.com\/w1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}