It enters the state from Oklahoma while overlapped with US 287, but splits at Lamar to follow its own route through the Eastern Plains to Nebraska.Communities along the route include Bristol, Sheridan Lake, Cheyenne Wells, Burlington, Wray, Holyoke, and Julesburg.30S (Dallas-Canadian-Denver Highway) to the Kansas state line in the direction of Guymon, Oklahoma.[5][6] (The connection in Kansas would become K-51 several years later,[7] but the rest of the road to US 64 west of Guymon did not become Oklahoma State Highway 95 until 1953–1954.Otherwise, paving was begun in 1941–1942 between Holyoke and Julesburg, and was completed north of Cheyenne Wells in 1957–1958.The remaining independent section of SH 51 was paved over the next few years and completed in 1963–1964, at which time US 385 was moved off US 287 north of Lamar.
View of US 385 at the southern end of the US 36 concurrency