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The county-designated highways in Michigan comprise a 1,241.6-mile-long (1,998.2 km) system of primary county roads across the US state of Michigan.Unlike the State Trunkline Highway System, these highways have alphanumeric designations with letters that correspond to one of eight lettered zones in the state.
John C. Lodge Freeway, Northwestern Highway M-11 — — Indiana state line in Grand Beach: Mackinaw City: 1919 [26] 1926 [27] Replaced by US 12 and US 31: M-11 — — Napoleon: Saline: 1926 [16] 1954 [29] Manchester to Saline became part of an extension of M-92 (now M-52); rest given to local control M-11: 20.840: 33.539 I-96 in Marne
The 1932 McNitt Act consolidated all of the township-controlled roads into 83 county road commissions. [67] On May 4, 1935, the state opened the first highway welcome center next to US 12 in New Buffalo near the Indiana state line; Michigan was the first state in the country to do so at the time. [68] [69]
The longest US Highway in the state is US Highway 23 (US 23) at just over 362 miles (583 km) spanning from the Ohio state line north to the Straits of Mackinac in the Lower Peninsula, while the shortest is the 2.3-mile (3.7 km) segment of US 8 south of Norway in Dickinson County.
The highway follows the Michigan Baseline, a part of the land survey of the state, and the roadway is also called Base Line Road in places. As a county road or city street, 8 Mile Road extends both east and west of the M-102 designation, which leaves 8 Mile on the eastern end to follow Vernier Road.
The county road runs along the southern edge of the harbor past the township's school and out of town. The pavement ends when the road leaves Alger County for Luce County. [8] H-58 follows a gravel roadway through the forested northwestern corner of Luce County. The roadway turns northeasterly and runs closer to Lake Superior as it approaches ...
The highway passes through more farm fields and through Layton Corners on the way to a junction with M-13 on the Saginaw–Genesee county line. At Montrose, M-57 crosses the Flint River, [4] [7] and a line of the Huron and Eastern Railway. [8] Now running along Vienna Road, the trunkline meets I-75/US 23 west of Clio.
East of the county line is the crossing over the Sturgeon River south of Pelkie, home of the Baraga County Fairgrounds. [3] [7] The trunkline crosses more hilly terrain while veering to the northeast. Continuing to the east, M-38 had its highest traffic usage in 2007. The AADT for the Baraga County highway segment was measured at 3,000 vehicles ...