Western section File:Oklahoma 5 1924.svg The western SH-5 begins at
U.S. Highway 62 in
Gould, Oklahoma and runs south until just past
Lincoln, where it turns east. It then ends at
State Highway 6 in
Eldorado, just north of the
Texas border. The western SH-5 was once known as SH-90. Both the now-separate western and eastern sections of SH-5 were formerly part of a continuous SH-5 across Southwest Oklahoma. From 1958 to 1969, SH-5 continued east from Eldorado over an unpaved roadway to a junction with US-283 east of
Elmer, and then turned north on a route shared with US-283 to the current west terminus of the eastern SH-5 at its junction with US-283 south of
Altus and west of
Tipton and continued east over the current eastern SH-5. The former Eldorado to Elmer section of SH-5 was removed from the state highway system in 1969 and continues in use as a county road under the jurisdiction of Jackson County.
Eastern section The eastern SH-5 starts between
Altus and
Elmer at
US-283. It heads east from here to
Tipton, where it turn south and SH-5C splits off. South of Tipton, SH-5 turns east again to intersect
U.S. Highway 183 in
Frederick. later, it has a two-mile (3.2 km)
concurrency with
State Highway 36. The highway splits off to the east from here, sharing a three-mile (4.8 km) concurrency with
US-277/
281 and an interchange with
Interstate 44 (which is also the Walters toll plaza of the
H.E. Bailey Turnpike). Five miles (8 km) east of where this three-route concurrency breaks up, SH-5 turns south in
Walters, with the mainline being taken over by
State Highway 53. SH-5 heads east again toward
Temple, where it has a brief concurrency with
State Highway 65, and then turns southeast to pass through
Hastings before ending at
US-70 in
Waurika. ==Spurs==