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U.S. Route 41

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U.S. Route 41
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Length: 2000<ref name="droz">Droz, Robert V. U.S. Highways : From US 1 to (US 830). URL accessed 22:46, 20 February 2006 (UTC).</ref> mi (3218.7 km)
Formed: 1926<ref name="droz"/>
South end: Image:US 1.svg US 1 in Miami, FL
Major
junctions: 		Image:I-4.svg I-4 at Tampa, FL

Image:I-10.svg I-10 near Lake City, FL
Image:I-20.svg I-20 at Atlanta, GA
Image:I-24.svg I-24 at Chattanooga, TN
Image:I-40.svg Image:I-65.svg I-40/I-65 at Nashville, TN
Image:I-64.svg I-64 near Evansville, IN
Image:I-70.svg I-70 at Terre Haute, IN
Image:I-80.svg Image:I-94.svg I-80/I-94 at Hammond, IN
Image:I-90.svg Image:Indiana Toll Road logo 1968.png Image:Chicago Skyway logo.svg I-90 at Chicago, IL
Image:I-55.svg I-55 at Chicago, IL
Image:I-43.svg I-43 at Milwaukee, WI
Image:US 2.svg US 2 at Powers, MI

North end: Ft. Wilkins State Park, MI
United States Numbered Highways

U.S. Route 41 is a north-south United States Highway that runs from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to Miami, Florida. Until 1949, the part in southern Florida, from Naples to Miami, was U.S. Route 94, which presently has the hidden designation of State Road 90 in addition to its signed number.

The highway's northern terminus is east of Copper Harbor, Michigan at a modest cul-de-sac near Fort Wilkins Historic State Park at the tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula on Lake Superior in the state's Upper Peninsula. Its southern terminus is in Miami, Florida at an intersection with Biscayne Boulevard (U.S. Route 1).

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[edit] States traversed

The highway passes through the following states:

[edit] Florida

US 41 is in the process of being widedned throughout the nothern Tampa Bay suburbs. It's curently six lanes wide between Tampa, Lutz and much of Land O' Lakes, and again between Garden Grove and Brooksville. It's also four lanes wide in Tampa south of BUS US 41, between a section north of Land O' Lakes, Masaryktown and Garden Grove, and south of Inverness. A large portion of US 41 is co-designated along unmarked SR 45 between Belle Meade and High Springs.


[edit] Business routes

Four Business US 41's exist in Florida:

[edit] Georgia

[edit] Tennessee

[edit] Alternate routes

As of 2005, Alternate US 41 (signed "41A") has a northern terminus in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, 10 miles (16 km) north of the Tennessee line. It serves the city of Clarksville, Tennessee on its way to Nashville, where it briefly runs concurrent with US-41, then separates again to serve Shelbyville, Winchester, and Tullahoma before finally rejoining the mother route atop Monteagle Mountain. US-41A runs to the west of US-41 for its entire length, aside from one mile in Downtown Nashville, where they are concurrent. US-41A is also concurrent with US-31A (the alternate route of U.S. Highway 31) from Nashville to Triune, Tennessee, a distance of approximately 25 miles.

[edit] Kentucky

[edit] Indiana

In the state of Indiana, U.S. Route 41 runs from the Ohio River south of Evansville to Chicago with U.S. Routes 12 and 20 beneath the termini of the Chicago Skyway and the Indiana Toll Road.

For its entire length north of Evansville, U.S. 41 passes through largely rural portions of far western Indiana. It is multiplexed with U.S. Routes 150 and 52 through some of these areas. U.S. 41 is also the main north-south road through Terre Haute, the largest city on U.S. 41 between Evansville and Chicago.

[edit] Illinois

See also: U.S. Route 41 in Illinois, Skokie Highway, and Lake Shore Drive

In the state of Illinois, U.S. 41 runs north from the Indiana border beneath the Chicago Skyway on Indianapolis Boulevard to the Wisconsin border north of the northern terminus of the Tri-State Tollway. U.S. 41 enters Illinois multiplexed with U.S. Routes 12 and 20 on the far southeast side of Chicago. They run together until the junction of 95th Street and Ewing Avenue. U.S. 41 then continues on local roads in Chicago before reaching the southern terminus of Lake Shore Drive, a scenic 15.8 mile (25.4 km) long six-to-eight lane expressway on the shores of Lake Michigan. Near the northern terminus of Lake Shore Drive, U.S. 41 leaves the highway and runs northwest to the city of Skokie.

U.S. 41 is named Skokie Boulevard north of Skokie. Traveling north, it joins Interstate 94 (Edens Expressway) westbound just north of the Old Orchard Shopping Center; they split a few miles north when U.S. 41 becomes the Skokie Highway. The highway serves as a major north-south arterial expressway for much of its routing through Chicago's northern suburbs, as well as an oft-used alternate for truckers avoiding the cost of high tolls on the Tri-State Tollway. Before reaching the Wisconsin border, U.S. 41 rejoins Interstate 94 at the northern terminus of the Tri-State Tollway; these two roads continue, toll-free, north 1 mile (2 km) to the Wisconsin border.

[edit] Wisconsin

In July 2005, efforts started in Congress to re-designate US 41 between Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Green Bay, Wisconsin as Interstate 41. The new Interstate Highway would also include US 45 between current US 41 and the intersection with Interstate 894 and Interstate 94. It is believed that US 41 at that time would then be re-routed to remain concurrent with I-41.

[edit] Michigan

See also: Portage Lake Lift Bridge, (Houghton, Michigan)

[edit] Bypasses

U.S. 41 bypasses downtown Marquette via a short expressway and then it cuts south to Lake Michigan, again becoming an expressway to bypass downtown Escanaba.

Major cities

[edit] History

When their routes were originally laid out in 1926, US 41's southern endpoint was in Naples, Florida at the western endpoint of U.S. Highway 94, which ran east to Miami. In 1949, US 94 was decommissioned, and the entire route became part of US 41, giving it an east-west section that retained the hidden SR 90 designation. The former US 94 route ended in Miami, Florida at the same intersection that US 41 (and SR 90) does now. In 1953, US 41 was extended along US 1 and State Road A1A to terminate in Miami Beach, but was truncated back to the earlier terminus in 2000.

[edit] Future

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Part of U.S. Route 41 has been officially approved for Interstate status.[citation needed] Necessary upgrades must be made before any signage changes can happen, but the entire length from Milwaukee to Green Bay is expected to become a new Interstate 41. It is unknown if the U.S. Route 41 shields will remain. When complete, this will be only the second Interstate number to multiplex with its U.S. Route counterpart. The other is Interstate 74 & U.S. Route 74 in North Carolina.

[edit] Intersections

U.S. 41 intersects with the following Interstate Highways and other freeways:

[edit] Related US routes

The following routes are child routes of U.S. 41.

[edit] Gallery

U.S. Route 45 exit in Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Baraga County, Michigan
Sign marking northern terminus, east of Copper Harbor, Michigan

[edit] Notes

  • Between Miami and Naples, U.S. 41 runs through the vast Everglades wilderness; this section has been designated a National Scenic Byway. The byway runs east-west along most of this stretch through the Big Cypress National Preserve skirting the northern border of Everglades National Park for about 20 miles. This section of the highway is known as the Tamiami Trail (derived from the combination of Tampa and Miami, the road's two termini).
  • It closely parallels Interstate 75 from Naples all the way through Georgia to Chattanooga.
  • In Northern Florida, US 41 runs along the DeSoto Trail between Lake City and High Springs, and again between Williston and Floral City.
  • After entering Illinois U.S. 41 splits off of I-94 and continues as the Skokie Highway for around 25 miles before briefly rejoining I-94. It then continues south to Chicago, Illinois' lakefront area as "Lake Shore Drive", running along the shores of Lake Michigan and past downtown Chicago.
  • North of Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, U.S. 41 is routed along Foster Avenue, Lincoln Avenue and Skokie Boulevard. South of Lake Shore Drive, U.S. 41 is routed along South Shore Drive (which itself requires two turns to stay on). It then is routed onto Bond Avenue, Baker Avenue, 85th Street, Burley Avenue, 87th Street, Mackinaw Avenue, Ewing Avenue and Indianapolis Avenue within the space of about 2 miles. The U.S. 41 relocation project seeks to straighten out this section of the highway by 2008 by looping U.S. 41 from South Shore Drive closer to new South Chicago Neighborhood lakefront development and onto a brand new extention of Avenue O to Ewing Avenue.
  • U.S. 14 intersects U.S. 41 twice in two miles in the city of Chicago. U.S. 14 originates as northbound Broadway at the intersection of Foster Avenue and Broadway (at this point U.S. 41 is oriented east-west). They then intersect again at Lincoln Avenue at Peterson Avenue.
  • Coming south from Michigan, U.S. 41 crosses the Menominee River at its mouth and enters Wisconsin at Marinette. It joins Interstate 94 in Milwaukee at Miller Park and the Menomonee River, and is cosigned to just past the Illinois border.
  • At the northern end of U.S. 41 in Copper Harbor there are two mileage signs that give the distance to Miami, 1990 miles. Photos: [1] from [2], [3] from [4].
  • U.S. Highway 41 was mentioned in the song "Ramblin' Man" by the The Allman Brothers Band. The song's protagonist was "born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus, rollin' down Highway 41."
  • Almost half of US 41 is east of US 31.

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