U.S. Route 41 in Wisconsin
World War II Veterans Memorial Highway | ||||
US 41 highlighted in red | ||||
Route information | ||||
Maintained by WisDOT | ||||
Length | 225 mi (362 km) | |||
Existed | 1926–present | |||
Tourist routes | ![]() | |||
Major junctions | ||||
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North end | ![]() | |||
Location | ||||
Country | United States | |||
State | Wisconsin | |||
Counties | Kenosha, Racine, Milwaukee, Waukesha, Washington, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Winnebago, Outagamie, Brown, Oconto, Marinette | |||
Highway system | ||||
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U.S. Highway 41 (US 41) is a north–south highway United States Numbered Highway in eastern Wisconsin. It runs from Pleasant Prairie on the Illinois border north to Marinette on the Michigan border. Most of the route is concurrent with Interstate 41 in the state, with the exception of the portion between Howard, a suburb of Green Bay, and Marinette.
Route description
[edit]US 41 is a freeway for nearly 85 percent of its route through Wisconsin, with the exceptions being a 29-mile (47 km) expressway section from the US 141 interchange in Oconto County to Marinette and a five-mile (8.0 km) surface arterial section within Marinette. The highway runs concurrently with I-94 from Milwaukee to the Illinois border and concurrently with I-41 from Howard to the Illinois border.
US 41 runs northwest from Milwaukee and passes Fond du Lac, Oshkosh, and Appleton before heading to Green Bay. The route is a major access point for the Milwaukee County Zoo, the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh air show in Oshkosh, the Fox River Mall and Fox Cities Stadium, and for Lambeau Field, the home of the Green Bay Packers NFL football team.
After leaving Green Bay, US 41 continues north to Abrams co-signed with US 141, and then it turns east off the co-signed route toward Marinette and into Michigan.
History
[edit]The first alignment of US 41 in Wisconsin, which extended south from Marinette to the Illinois state line, was defined generally by two state trunk highways in existence in 1926: WIS 15 from Marinette to Milwaukee, and WIS 57 from Milwaukee to the Illinois state line. Signs for the newly established highway were to be placed in spring of 1927.[1] A meeting of the Wisconsin Highway Commission in 1926 decided that no new U.S. Highway number would overlap with an existing state route number; therefore, WIS 41 was retired and renumbered when US 41 came into existence.[1]
In Milwaukee the original routing of US 41 used Lisbon Avenue east to North 27th Street, then south along that road to the Illinois state line. After the Stadium Freeway was built in the 1960s, US 41 followed that road from Lisbon Avenue south across I-94 to National Avenue and then east to 27th Street, which is known as Layton Boulevard between National Avenue and Lincoln Avenue. WisDOT rerouted US 41 along I-94 from the Stadium Interchange to the Illinois state line, removed Layton Boulevard north of Forest Home Avenue from the state highway system and gave Layton Boulevard and 27th Street south of Forest Home Avenue the designation of WIS 241 in a compromise to avoid expansion of the original route. The old US 41 freeway section south of I-94 to National Avenue (which was realigned to accommodate the construction of American Family Field) was designated WIS 341 but is unsigned. Within Milwaukee city limits the road is known as Brewers Boulevard, while it is still signed Miller Park Way in West Milwaukee despite the stadium's new naming rights, because of that community's aversion to forcing businesses along its main commercial corridor to incur costs for an address change.[2]
By 1955, US 41 was relocated from the corridor of today's WIS 175 and its successors to a nearby expressway in Winnebago, Fond du Lac, Dodge, Washington, Waukesha, and Milwaukee Counties.[3]
In Green Bay, the road was rerouted in 1953 to make a curve to the right west of De Pere, going onto Ashland Avenue to the Green Bay city limits. It then turned left onto Highland Avenue (after 1968, Lombardi Avenue), going past Lambeau Field and curving right onto Military Avenue. It then turned left at Velp Avenue. US 41 then followed present day Velp Avenue north to Suamico where it merged with what is now the US 41 freeway. Until 1968 this was the outer highway for Green Bay; the area now is urbanized. The 1953–1968 Green Bay bypass was once again bypassed, sequentially, with the present US 41 freeway beginning at Velp, southerly to Lombardi in 1968; Velp north to Suamico in 1971; then from Lombardi south to De Pere in 1974.[3]
Appleton also saw US 41 realignments over the course of time, beginning with the 1937 two-lane bypass (along the present freeway route) from Neenah northerly to a T-intersection with US 10 (today's Wisconsin Avenue, WIS 96). There, US 41 turned east with US 10, back to its original route at the intersection of US 10 (Wisconsin Avenue) and Richmond Street north of downtown Appleton, then north on Richmond to present day Northland Avenue. There it turned east on new alignment back to the original route northeast of Kaukauna. In 1940, US 41 was extended northerly from the T-intersection at US 10 for one mile (1.6 km), before making a large sweeping curve onto present day Northland Avenue to join back up with the previous bypass at Richmond Street. By 1962, the original Appleton bypass had been converted to four-lane divided highway from Oshkosh north to Northland Avenue, then north and east on new alignment bypassing the Northland Avenue bypass with the current freeway easterly to Kaukauna.[3]
In the 1990s, a strategic effort was made along US 41 to convert the remaining expressway segments between Richfield and Abrams to freeway.[3] The freeway conversion, which was completed by 2001, cleared the way for Interstate 41 to be designated along the corridor from the Illinois state line to Green Bay.[4] Additionally, in the 2000s, the highway was widened to an expressway from Abrams to just west of Marinette, and included freeway bypasses around the cities of Oconto and Peshtigo.[5]
Exit list
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County | Location | mi[6] | km | Exit[7] | Destinations | Notes | |
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Kenosha | Pleasant Prairie | 0.00 | 0.00 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Continuation into Illinois | ||
2.04 | 3.28 | 347 | ![]() ![]() | Exit numbers follow I-94 | |||
3.43 | 5.52 | 345 | ![]() | ||||
Kenosha | 5.07 | 8.16 | 344 | ![]() | |||
Somers | 6.59 | 10.61 | 342 | ![]() | |||
8.35 | 13.44 | 340 | ![]() ![]() | ||||
Town of Paris | 10.07 | 16.21 | 339 | ![]() | |||
Racine–Kenosha county line | Mount Pleasant–Paris village/town line | 12.08 | 19.44 | 337 | ![]() | ||
Racine | Mount Pleasant | 13.95 | 22.45 | 335 | ![]() | ||
Town of Yorkville | 15.96– 16.01 | 25.69– 25.77 | 333 | ![]() | |||
Caledonia | 19.64 | 31.61 | 329 | ![]() | |||
Town of Raymond | 21.67 | 34.87 | 327 | ![]() | |||
23.17 | 37.29 | 326 | Seven Mile Road | ||||
Caledonia | 24.10 | 38.79 | 325 | ![]() ![]() | Permanently closed in favor of exit 324 | ||
Milwaukee | Oak Creek | 324 | Elm Road | ||||
26.39 | 42.47 | 322 | ![]() | ||||
28.47 | 45.82 | 321 | Drexel Avenue | ||||
29.41 | 47.33 | 320 | ![]() | ||||
Milwaukee | 30.38 | 48.89 | 319 | ![]() | |||
31.08 | 50.02 | 318 | ![]() | ||||
32.37 | 52.09 | 317 | ![]() | ||||
32.53– 32.69 | 52.35– 52.61 | 316 10 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Mitchell Interchange; northern end of I-94 overlap; eastern end of I-43 and I-894 overlaps | |||
33.60 | 54.07 | 9 | ![]() | No access is allowed from I-94 west or to I-94 east; exit numbers follow I-894 | |||
Greenfield | 34.64 | 55.75 | 8 | ![]() | Signed as exits 8A (south) and 8B (north) | ||
35.64 | 57.36 | 7 | South 60th Street | ||||
36.66 | 59.00 | 5B | ![]() | Westbound exit and eastbound entrance | |||
36.66– 37.14 | 59.00– 59.77 | 5A-B | South 76th Street, South 84th Street | Eastbound exit and westbound entrance | |||
36.86 | 59.32 | 5A | ![]() ![]() | Westbound exit and eastbound entrance | |||
Milwaukee | 38.06 | 61.25 | 4 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Hale Interchange; western end of I-43 overlap; southern end of the US 45 overlap | ||
Greenfield | 39.32 | 63.28 | 3 | ![]() | |||
39.93 | 64.26 | 2B | Oklahoma Avenue | Southbound exit and northbound entrance | |||
West Allis | 40.67 | 65.45 | 2A | National Avenue | Southbound exit to westbound National Avenue only | ||
40.93 | 65.87 | 1E | Lincoln Avenue | Southbound exit and northbound entrance | |||
41.89 | 67.42 | 1D | ![]() | ||||
Milwaukee | 42.61 | 68.57 | 1 38 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Zoo Interchange; western end of I-894 overlap; signed as exits 1A (east) and 1B (west) northbound and exits 38A (west) and 38B (east) southbound | ||
Wauwatosa | 43.36– 43.60 | 69.78– 70.17 | 39 | ![]() | Northbound exit is not signed for Wisconsin Avenue; exit numbers follow US 45 | ||
44.14– 44.56 | 71.04– 71.71 | 40 | Watertown Plank Road, Swan Boulevard | Southbound exit not signed for Swan Boulevard | |||
44.94 | 72.32 | 42A | ![]() ![]() | Southbound exit not signed for WIS 100 | |||
45.54 | 73.29 | 42B | North Avenue west | ||||
46.59 | 74.98 | 43 | Burleigh Street | ||||
47.59 | 76.59 | 44 | ![]() | Three-level diamond interchange; access roads for the adjacent plants are also part of the interchange | |||
Milwaukee | 48.69 | 78.36 | 45 | ![]() | |||
49.52 | 79.69 | 46 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Southern end of WIS 100 overlap | |||
51.05 | 82.16 | 47 | ![]() | ||||
51.85 | 83.44 | 47B | ![]() | Exit numbers follow US 41 | |||
52.15– 52.94 | 83.93– 85.20 | 48 | ![]() | ||||
Waukesha | Menomonee Falls | 54.64– 54.77 | 87.93– 88.14 | 50 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Northern end of WIS 100 overlap; signed as exits 50A (east) and 50B (west) | |
55.45 | 89.24 | 51 | Pilgrim Road | Signed as exits 51A (north) and 51B (south) | |||
Washington | Germantown | 56.68 | 91.22 | 52 | ![]() | ||
58.63 | 94.36 | 54 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Southern end of WIS 167 overlap | |||
61.64 | 99.20 | 57 | ![]() ![]() | Northern end of WIS 167 overlap | |||
Richfield | 63.27 | 101.82 | 59 | ![]() ![]() | Northern end of US 45 overlap; northbound exit and southbound entrance | ||
64.37 | 103.59 | 60 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Signage reads WIS 145; ramp signage reads CTH-FD TO WIS 145 | |||
Slinger | 68.17 | 109.71 | 64 | ![]() | Signed as exits 64A (east, Jackson) and 64B (west, Slinger, Hartford) northbound | ||
Town of Polk | 70.45 | 113.38 | 66 | ![]() | |||
Town of Hartford | 72.12 | 116.07 | 68 | ![]() | |||
Town of Addison | 76.37 | 122.91 | 72 | ![]() ![]() | |||
Town of Wayne | 79.59 | 128.09 | 76 | ![]() | |||
Dodge | Town of Theresa | 85.22 | 137.15 | 81 | ![]() | ||
Lomira | 89.24 | 143.62 | 85 | ![]() | |||
Town of Lomira | 91.29 | 146.92 | 87 | ![]() ![]() | |||
Fond du Lac | Town of Byron | 96.10 | 154.66 | 92 | ![]() | ||
Fond du Lac | 99.71– 99.72 | 160.47– 160.48 | 95 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Southern end of US 45 overlap | ||
101.01 | 162.56 | 97 | ![]() | ||||
101.84 | 163.90 | 98 | ![]() | Former US 151 | |||
103.74 | 166.95 | 99 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Northern end of US 45 overlap | |||
North Fond du Lac | 104.24 | 167.76 | 101 | ![]() | |||
Winnebago | Town of Eldorado | 110.27 | 177.46 | 106 | ![]() | ||
Town of Nekimi | 117.47 | 189.05 | 113 | ![]() ![]() | |||
Oshkosh | 120.22 | 193.48 | 116 | ![]() ![]() | |||
121.64 | 195.76 | 117 | 9th Avenue | ||||
123.14 | 198.17 | 119 | ![]() | ||||
125.05 | 201.25 | 120 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | To US 10 west not signed southbound | |||
128.10 | 206.16 | 124 | ![]() | ||||
Neenah | 133.30 | 214.53 | 129 | Bell Street, Breezewood Lane | |||
134.67 | 216.73 | 131 | ![]() ![]() | ||||
135.61 | 218.24 | 132 | Main Street, Oak Ridge Road | No entrance ramps | |||
Fox Crossing | 136.35 | 219.43 | 133 | ![]() | |||
137.81 | 221.78 | 134 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||||
137.86 | 221.86 | ![]() ![]() | |||||
139.62 | 224.70 | 136 | ![]() | ||||
Outagamie | Town of Grand Chute | 140.88 | 226.72 | 137 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||
141.65 | 227.96 | 138 | ![]() | ||||
142.71 | 229.67 | 139 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | To CTH-A not signed southbound | |||
145.67 | 234.43 | 142 | ![]() | ||||
Appleton | 147.67 | 237.65 | 144 | ![]() | |||
148.59– 148.61 | 239.13– 239.16 | 145 | ![]() ![]() | ||||
Little Chute | 151.10 | 243.17 | 146 | ![]() | |||
Kaukauna | 152.78 | 245.88 | 148 | ![]() | |||
153.99 | 247.82 | 150 | ![]() | ||||
Town of Kaukauna | 158.25 | 254.68 | 154 | ![]() | |||
Brown | Town of Lawrence | 161.21 | 259.44 | 157 | ![]() | ||
181.87 | 292.69 | 161 | ![]() | ||||
Ashwaubenon | 167.12 | 268.95 | 163A | ![]() | Signed as exit 163 southbound | ||
167.40 | 269.40 | 163B | ![]() ![]() | Northbound exit and southbound entrance | |||
168.39 | 271.00 | 164 | ![]() | ||||
169.36– 169.46 | 272.56– 272.72 | 165 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | To WIS 57 not signed northbound | |||
171.14 | 275.42 | 167 | ![]() | ||||
Green Bay | 172.18 | 277.10 | 168 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Southern end of WIS 32 overlap | ||
Howard | 173.17 | 278.69 | 169 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Northern end of WIS 32 overlap | ||
174.75 | 281.23 | 170A | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Southern end of US 141 overlap; former exit 170 | |||
175.16– 175.43 | 281.89– 282.33 | 170B | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Northern terminus of I-41 and I-43; northern end of I-41 overlap; former exit 171 | |||
Town of Suamico | 173 | ![]() | |||||
176 | ![]() | ||||||
Oconto | Town of Little Suamico | 179 | Brown Road | ||||
182 | ![]() | ||||||
Town of Abrams | 185 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | |||||
187 | ![]() ![]() | Northern end of US 141 overlap | |||||
Northern end of freeway | |||||||
Town of Pensaukee | ![]() | ||||||
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Southern end of freeway | |||||||
| 197 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Northbound exit and southbound entrance | ||||
Oconto | 198 | ![]() ![]() | |||||
| 200 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Southbound exit and northbound entrance | ||||
Northern end of freeway | |||||||
| ![]() ![]() | Southern end of CTH-A overlap | |||||
| ![]() ![]() | Northern end of CTH-A overlap | |||||
Marinette | County Line | ![]() | |||||
Grover | ![]() | ||||||
Southern end of freeway | |||||||
| 212 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |||||
| 216 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | |||||
Northern end of freeway | |||||||
Marinette | ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||||||
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Menominee River | Wisconsin–Michigan state line | ||||||
![]() ![]() ![]() | Continuation into Michigan | ||||||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "State Prepares to Mark New U.S. Thru Highways". Appleton Post-Crescent. August 18, 1926. p. 7. Retrieved December 23, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Dohr, Bob (January 13, 2021). "West Milwaukee won't change the name of Miller Park Way despite the ballpark's name change to American Family Field". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved April 4, 2024.
- ^ a b c d "US-41: The Complete History". Retrieved October 19, 2021.
- ^ Srubas, Paul. "It's officially Interstate 41 now in Wisconsin". Retrieved October 19, 2021.
- ^ "United States Highway (USH) 41, Oconto to Peshtigo, Marinette and Oconto counties : environmental impact statement" (PDF). Retrieved October 19, 2021.
- ^ Wisconsin State Trunk Highway Logs:
- Southeast Region Staff (December 31, 2008). State Trunk Highway Log for Southeast Region (XLS). Waukesha, WI: Wisconsin Department of Transportation. 041N.
- Southwest Region Staff (December 31, 2008). State Trunk Highway Log for Southwest Region (XLS). Madison, WI: Wisconsin Department of Transportation. 041N.
- Northeast Region Staff (May 14, 2009). State Trunk Highway Log for Region 3. Green Bay, WI: Wisconsin Department of Transportation. pp. 172–200.
- ^ Staff. "Exit Numbers on US 41". Wisconsin Department of Transportation. Archived from the original on June 7, 2007. Retrieved June 10, 2007.
External links
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- U.S. Highways in Wisconsin
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- Freeways in the Milwaukee area
- Lake Michigan Circle Tour
- Transportation in Kenosha County, Wisconsin
- Transportation in Racine County, Wisconsin
- Transportation in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
- Transportation in Waukesha County, Wisconsin
- Transportation in Washington County, Wisconsin
- Transportation in Dodge County, Wisconsin
- Transportation in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin
- Transportation in Winnebago County, Wisconsin
- Transportation in Outagamie County, Wisconsin
- Transportation in Brown County, Wisconsin
- Transportation in Oconto County, Wisconsin
- Transportation in Marinette County, Wisconsin