Mississippi Highway 713

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

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

History[]

The northern portion of MS 713 runs mostly north–south, coinciding with Interstate 69 (I-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 – Tunica, Walls	Southern terminus
	Banks	4.0	6.4	MS 3
		4.9	7.9	Old Highway 304 east – Eudora, Hernando	Former MS 304; south end of freeway
		5.2	8.4	I-69 begins	Southern end of I-69 overlap
DeSoto		8.3	13.4	I-69 north / MS 304 east	Northern terminus of MS 713, end overlap with I-69
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Concurrency terminus