Mississippi Highway 713

MS Highway 713
Route information
Maintained by MDOT
Length:	7.085 mi[1] (11.402 km)
Major junctions
South end:	US 61 in Tunica Resorts
	I-69
North end:	I-69 north / MS 304 east, northeast of Tunica Resorts
Location
Counties:	DeSoto, Tunica
Highway system
Mississippi State Highway System Interstate US State Unsigned

Mississippi Highway 713 is a spur route in northwestern Mississippi that carries traffic between the relocated MS 304 and U.S. 61, serving as a bypass of the northern section of Tunica Resorts, Mississippi for traffic headed to the Casino Strip Resorts, the town of Tunica, and destinations further south along U.S. 61.

History

The northern portion of MS 713 runs mostly north–south, coinciding with Interstate 69 and is a freeway constructed to Interstate highway standards; it opened to traffic December 18, 2006.^[2] The remainder of the route replaces the former route of MS 304 between U.S. 61 and Banks, Mississippi, is a five-lane undivided highway with a center turn lane, and runs east–west.

The portion of MS 713 in Tunica County was designated as the Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial Highway by the Mississippi Legislature in 2003.^[3]

Major intersections

County	Location	mi[4]	km	Destinations	Notes
Tunica	Tunica Resorts	0.0	0.0	US 61
	Banks	4.0	6.4	MS 3
	​	4.9	7.9	MS 304 Scenic east	Western terminus of MS 304 Scenic
	​	5.2	8.4	I-69 begins	Southern end of I-69 overlap
DeSoto	​	8.3	13.4	I-69 north / MS 304 east	Eastern terminus of MS 713, end overlap with I-69
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References

Route map: Bing / Google

1. Mississippi Department of Transportation, "Mississippi Public Roads Selected Statistics Extent, Travel, and Designation", retrieved 4 September 2007. Archived February 5, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
2. Highway 713 to Open to Traffic on Monday, December 14, 2006.
3. "HB1419". state.ms.us.
4. Google (December 7, 2012). "Mississippi Highway 713" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved December 7, 2012.