Primary State Highway 6 (Washington)

Primary State Highway 6 (PSH 6) began at a 3-way junction with , co-signed with U.S. Route 2 (US 2) and , formerly with and US 10 Alternate, north of Downtown Spokane. From the junction, the highway became co-signed with US 2 (formerly US 195 and US 10 Alternate and traveled northeast to intersect what was US 2 prior to 1955 in Mead. The roadway then turned north, paralleling railroad tracks that belonged to the Great Northern Railway (now owned by BNSF Railway), which it would parallel to Newport. At Colbert, an overpass over the road served another Great Northern Railway line where the current BNSF Railway left PSH 6; from Colbert, the roadway passed Chattaroy and Milan before it left Spokane County to enter Pend Oreille County. The southern terminus in Spokane was the busiest section of the highway in 1960, with a daily average of 4,850 motorists; the busiest section in Pend Oreille County was at Newport city limits with a daily average of 2,150 motorists in 1960. ==History==

PSH 6 was first established in 1915 as State Road 23 (SR 23) on a Spokane–Tiger route, which would be extended to the Canada–US border in 1921. In 1923, the road became SR 6 and was co-signed with U.S. Route 195 (US 195) from Spokane to Newport in 1926 during the creation of the U.S. routes. During the creation of the Primary and secondary state highways in 1937, SR 6 became PSH 6 and two secondary highways along with a short branch were created. A roadway extending from Colville () to Tiger (PSH 6) became (SSH 6A), a short bypass of Newport became and a short connector to US 195 in Idaho within Newport became the branch. In 1946, was also co-signed onto the highway, replacing , which had used the same route before 1946. was later extended over SR 294 and SR 31 between Newport and Tiger in 1973; SR 311 was renumbered to in 1975. ==Branch==

PSH 6 had only one branch that ran long within Newport. The branch was designated in 1937 during the creation of the Primary and secondary system and became co-signed with US 195 in 1926 and US 2 in 1946, ==Secondary State Highways==

SSH 6A (the successor of SSH 6A) showing the gap between the radar station and the Pend Oreille County line. The long SSH 6A began at , From Colville, the highway passed the Colville Municipal Airport, a Dolomite mine and a sawmill before paralleling Pend Oreille Creek and passing the Little Pend Oreille National Wildlife Refuge. From the wildlife refuge, the roadway paralleled the shoreline of Lake Thomas into Pend Oreille County and passed another mine to end at PSH 6 in Tiger. The road, named the Colville–Tiger Road, was established in 1937, The busiest segment on the highway was east of Colville with a daily average of 1,400 in 1960. The roadway was established in 1937 and became during the highway renumbering in 1964, which became in 1975. The busiest segment on the highway was the southern terminus near Diamond Lake, with a daily average of 600 in 1960. ==Major intersections==

Branch intersections SSH 6A intersections SSH 6B intersections ==See also==