U.S. Highway 287 (US 287) in the U.S. state of Texas is a major U.S. Highway that begins on the Gulf Coast in Port Arthur and heads north through Fort Worth, northwest to Childress, Clarendon, Wichita Falls, and Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle and into Oklahoma near Kerrick.

At the cloverleaf interchange with SH 73, the route becomes a freeway and remains so heading towards I-10 in Beaumont.

[2] In Crockett, US 287 becomes concurrent with SH 19 and remains so until reaching Palestine, where it splits from the state highway northwest of town.

In Midlothian, it interchanges with US 67 before continuing northwest as a freeway towards the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, heading through Mansfield.

The highway then runs northwest toward Fort Worth, also known as the Martin Luther King Jr. Freeway.

The route was extended southward from Colorado to the Gulf Coast at Port Arthur, Texas in 1939.

Between Ennis and Waxahachie, the highway is getting grade separated interchanges and service roads.

[citation needed] On March 15, 2022, a bill was signed by President Joe Biden that added the extension of I-27 north to Raton, New Mexico, and south to Laredo to the Interstate Highway System utilizing the US 87, US 277 and US 83 corridors.

[5] A bill introduced in 2023 would explicitly designate the extension as I-27 with two auxiliary routes numbered I-227 and I-327.