OH 844
State Route 844 (SR 844) is a 2.32-mile-long (3.73 km) Ohio State Route that runs between the Beavercreek and the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in the US state of Ohio. No section of the highway is listed on the National Highway System. Most of the is a urban four-lane highway and passes through both commercial properties. For some of its path, SR 844 passes through the Wright State University. The highway was first signed in 1995 on much of the same alignment as today. SR 844 replaced the SR 444A designation of the highway which dated back to 1989.
SR 844 begins at an interchange with Interstate 675 (I–675). The route heads northeast as a four-lane controlled-access highway, passing under North Fairfield Road. The road has a partial interchange with Colonel Glenn Highway, before passing on the southeast and east sides of Wright State University. The highway curves due north, having an interchange with University Boulevard. After the interchange with University Boulevard, the road curves northwest, passing over SR 444. Followed by an interchange with SR 444, SR 844 ends at Gate 15A of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
SR 844 is designated "McClernon Memorial Skyway", after the late Brigadier General Glen J. McClernon. McClernon had been base commander during the time the university was being established — partially on land deeded to it by the Air Force base — and also had been a two-term mayor of Fairborn.
There is no section of SR 844 that is included as a part of the National Highway System, a system of routes determined to be the most important for the nation's economy, mobility and defense. The highway is maintained by the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) like all other state routes in the state. The department tracks the traffic volumes along all state highways as a part of its maintenance responsibilities using a metric called average annual daily traffic (AADT). This measurement is a calculation of the traffic level along a segment of roadway for any average day of the year. In 2008, ODOT figured that the lowest traffic levels were present on the section near the northern terminus, where only 8,450 vehicles used the highway daily. The peak traffic volume was 31,890 vehicles AADT along a section of SR 844 near its southern terminus.
SR 844 was originally SR 444A, which opened by 1989. After a public comment period in 1994, ODOT changed the number to "844" by 1995.
There are plans to add a ramp from northbound SR 844 to northbound SR 444, and to add a ramp from northbound SR 444 to southbound SR 844. As of this writing, the status and funding for this project are unknown.
The entire route is in Greene County.
