Crossroads facts for kids

Crossroads, or crossroad, or cross road may refer to:

• Crossroads (junction), a junction where four roads meet

Film

• Cross Roads (film), a 1930 British film directed by Reginald Fogwell
• Crossroads (1937 film), a Chinese film starring Zhao Dan
• Crossroads (1942 film), a mystery film directed by Jack Conway
• Crossroads (1976 film), directed by Bruce Conner
• Crossroad (1976 film), Hong Kong-Taiwanese film directed by Chin Han
• Crossroads (1986 film), starring Ralph Macchio
• Crossroads (2002 film), starring Britney Spears
• Crossroads: A Story of Forgiveness, 2007 film starring Dean Cain

Literature

• Cross Roads (novel), Christian fiction by William Paul Young
• The Crossroads (novel), a children's novel by Chris Grabenstein
• Crossroads (comics), a five issue limited series from First Comics
• Crossroad (manga), a 2003 seven volume manga series
• Crossroads (series), a high fantasy series of books written by Kate Elliott
• As God Commands (novel), (Italian: [Come Dio comanda] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help)), a novel by Niccolò Ammaniti also known as The Crossroads
• Crossroads, a series of novels written for the Dragonlance realm

Music

• Crossroads (quartet), winner of the 2009 BHS international quartet championship
• Crossroads Guitar Festival, a three-day blues and rock concert arranged by Eric Clapton
• Crossroads (Sanjay Shrestha), a Nepali pop band founded by Sanjay Shrestha
• Cross Road (videos), by Bon Jovi (1994)

Albums

• Cross Road (album), a 1994 compilation album by Bon Jovi
• Crossroad (Calvin Russell album), 2000
• Crossroad (Masami Okui album), 2002
• Crossroads (1986 soundtrack)
• Crossroads (Eric Clapton album), 1988
  • Crossroads 2: Live in the Seventies, a sequel, (box set), 1996
• Crossroads (Tracy Chapman album), or the title track, 1989
• Crossroads (mind.in.a.box album), 2007
• Crossroads (Sylver album), 2006
• Crossroads: 2010, an album by rapper Bizzy Bone

Songs

• "Cross Road" (song), by Mr. Children (1993)
• "Cross Road Blues", a 1936 blues song by Robert Johnson, later recorded as "Crossroads" by many other musicians
• "Crossroad" (song), by Ayumi Hamasaki (2010)
• "Crossroads", a song by Avenged Sevenfold from their 2008 live album Live in the LBC & Diamonds in the Rough
• "Crossroads", a song by LL Cool J, from his 1993 album 14 Shots to the Dome
• "Crossroads", a song by Don McLean, from his 1971 album American Pie
• "Tha Crossroads", a 1996 Grammy Award winning single by rap group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
  • "Crossroads", a 2002 UK number-one single from Blazin' Squad based on the above
• "Crossroads", a 1991 single by Calvin Russell

Places

Antigua and Barbuda

• Crossroads Centre, an addiction rehabilitation facility

Australia

• Cross Road, Adelaide, a road in Adelaide
• Cross Roads, South Australia, a locality
• Crossroads (medieval village), a medieval commune style project in NSW

India

• Crossroads Mall (Mumbai), a shopping mall in Bombay

Jamaica

• Cross Roads, Jamaica, a primarily commercial neighbourhood of Kingston

South Africa

• Crossroads, Cape Town

United Kingdom

• Cross Roads, West Yorkshire, England

United States

• Cross Roads, Monroe County, Arkansas
• Cross Roads, Delaware County, Indiana, an unincorporated community
• Cross Roads, Ripley County, Indiana, an unincorporated community
• Crossroads, Indiana, an unincorporated community in Vanderburgh County
• Florence, Kentucky, formerly known as Crossroads
• Hustonville, Kentucky, formerly known as The Crossroads
• Crossroads, George County, Mississippi
• Cross Roads, Rankin County, Mississippi
• Cross Roads, Douglas County, Missouri, an unincorporated community in Douglas County
• Cross Roads, St. Francois County, Missouri, an unincorporated community in St. Francois County
• Crossroads, Stone County, Missouri, an unincorporated community in Stone County
• Crossroads, Kansas City, a neighborhood in downtown Kansas City, Missouri
• Crossroads, New Jersey
• Cross Roads, Pennsylvania, a borough in York County
• Crossroads, Tennessee
• Crossroads, Wayne County, Tennessee
• Cross Roads, Texas, an incorporated town in Denton County
• Cross Roads, Henderson County, Texas, an unincorporated community
• Surry, Virginia, formerly Cross Roads
• Crossroads, Bellevue, Washington, a neighborhood
• Crossroads, Monongalia County, West Virginia
• Crossroads, Summers County, West Virginia
• Crossroads Village, a county park near Flint, Michigan, operated by Huckleberry Railroad
• "The Crossroads", the intersection of U.S. Route 61 and U.S. Route 49 in Clarksdale, Mississippi, where Robert Johnson supposedly sold his soul to the Devil

Shopping malls

• Crossroads Center (St. Cloud, Minnesota), a shopping mall in St. Cloud, Minnesota
• Crossroads Mall (Boulder), a former shopping mall in Boulder, Colorado
• Crossroads Mall (Florida), a former shopping mall in the Tampa Bay area of Florida
• Crossroads Mall (Oklahoma), the former name of a shopping mall in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
• Crossroads Mall (Omaha), a shopping mall in Omaha, Nebraska
• Crossroads Center (Waterloo, Iowa), a shopping mall in Waterloo, Iowa
• Crossroads Plaza (North Carolina), a shopping district in Cary, North Carolina
• The Crossroads (Portage, Michigan), a shopping mall in Portage, Michigan

Organizations

• American Crossroads, a Super PAC to advocate for certain candidates of the US Republican Party
• Crossroads Care, a charity for carers in England and Wales
  • Crossroads Caring Scotland, a parallel charity in Scotland
• Crossroads Foundation, a non-profit charity based in Hong Kong
• Crossroad Publishing Company, an American-based publishing house

Other uses

• Crossroads (video game), a 1987 chaotic shooter video game for the Commodore 64
• Crossroads (mythology), a site where supernatural spirits can be contacted and paranormal events can take place
• Crossroads Movement, which gave rise to the International Churches of Christ
• Operation Crossroads, the 1946 atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll
• The Cross-roads, a fictional location in J. R. R. Tolkien's world of Middle-earth; See List of Middle-earth roads

See also

In Spanish: Crossroads para niños

• Carrefour (English: Crossroads), an international supermarket chain founded in France
• Crossroads of America, an unofficial nickname for Indiana
• Crossroads village, a term for a settlement situated at a crossroads
• Crossroads Church (disambiguation)
• Crossroads School (disambiguation)
• Fork in the road (disambiguation)