Texas State Highway 87

State Highway 87
SH 87 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by TxDOT
Length	249.39 mi[1] (401.35 km)
Existed	1923–present
Major junctions
South end	I-45 in Galveston
Major intersections	US 69 / US 96 / US 287 in Port Arthur I-10 / US 90 in Orange US 190 in Newton US 96 in Center
North end	Future I-69 / US 59 / US 84 at Timpson
Location
Country	United States
State	Texas
Highway system
Highways in Texas Interstate US State Toll Loops Spurs FM/RM Park Rec
← US 87 → SH 88

State Highway 87 (SH 87) runs for 249.4 miles (401.4 km) between Galveston, Texas (at a terminus shared with Interstate 45 and Spur 342) to U.S. Highway 59 and U.S. Highway 84 in Timpson, Texas.

Highway 87 has a notable stretch between Sea Rim State Park and High Island, Texas that has been washed out repeatedly over the decades and has been closed continuously since 1990.^[2] Portions of this stretch were less than 100 feet (30 m) away from high tide in the 1990s. The storm surge from Hurricane Jerry which made landfall on October 15, 1989, left the highway in a state of disrepair.

In 2018, a repair project was started by the Texas Department of Transportation to raise the elevation of the segment from Rollover Pass to High Island by 2.5 feet, with the goal of keeping the roadway passable during high tides. The project has an estimated cost of $20.8 million.^[3] There is also a separate project, begun in 2022, to rehabilitate the dunes on Bolivar Peninsula to mitigate the erosion caused by the tides.^[4]

A section of highway which is now known as the Warden Michael C. Pauling^[5] Memorial Highway stretches from the Intracoastal Waterway Bridge to Sabine Pass on Texas 87.^[6]