H-13 (Michigan county highway)

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Wetmore
North end H-58 in Munising Township
Location
CountryUnited States
StateMichigan
CountiesDelta, Alger, Schoolcraft
Highway system
←
H-15

H-13 is a

Miners Castle
, but the roadway designation was truncated in the first decade of the 21st century.

Route description

H-13/FFH-13 starts at an intersection with US Highway 2 (US 2) west of Moss Lake.[4] The roadway runs north crossing a line of the Canadian National Railway.[5] It heads through the Hiawatha National Forest,[6] running parallel to the Sturgeon River. H-13/FFH-13 crosses the river near the Flowing Well National Forest Campground on a T-beam bridge built in 1941.[4][7][8] The road meanders from there northeasterly through rural Delta County forests, passing to the west of Dana and Skeels lakes and crossing several small streams. It crosses into the southeastern corner of Alger County near Straits Lake. The road continues northeasterly and then meanders back and forth along the Alger–Schoolcraft county line in an area dotted with several lakes.[4][7]

H-13/FFH-13 during the winter

H-13/FFH-13 crosses east into Schoolcraft County completely and provides access to the Pete's Lake National Forest Campground near the lake of the same name. The road shifts back westerly to follow the county line near the Widewaters National Forest Campground; from here north the forest highway will follow the county line north to the northwestern corner of Schoolcraft County. Along the way, H-13 meets the southern terminus of the unsigned

Wagner Falls State Park and passes Hanley Field, a private airport south of Wetmore.[4][7] The forest highway crosses another branch of the Canadian National Railway[5] south of the junction with M-28/M-94 in Wetmore. At that junction, the FFH-13 designation ends and H-13 continues north as a gravel surface along Connors Road through Munising Township. The county road ends at the intersection with H-58 (Munising–Van Meer–Shingleton Road) in the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.[4][7] As a county-designated highway, H-13 is maintained by the county road commissions of Delta, Alger and Schoolcraft counties (DCRC, ACRC and SCRC respectively) with support for the FFH-13 segment as part of the Forest Highway System that is funded and administered by the United States Forest Service and the Federal Highway Administration.[9] H-13/FFH-13 forms a major north–south artery for the Hiawatha National Forest.[6]

History

The Forest Highway System was created by the

Federal Aid Highway Act of 1921.[10] An earthen road was present along the route of H-13 by the middle of 1936.[11] Later that year, the segment along the Alger–Schoolcraft county line was built as a gravel road, and Miners Castle Road was upgraded to gravel as well.[11][12] Additional segments were under construction in 1940 in Delta County and south of Wetmore.[13] During World War II, the gravel surface was downgraded to earth along Miners Castle Road.[14] The rest of the modern H-13 was paved in 1948 or 1949.[15][16]

The county-designated highway system was created around October 5, 1970, when the state approved the system.

H-11
.

Major intersections

CountyLocationmi[1]kmDestinationsNotes
Nahma Junction
0.0000.000 US 2 – Escanaba, Manistique
Alger
 No major junctions
Schoolcraft
 No major junctions
H-09
north		H-09 is unsigned
Wetmore
33.57254.029 M-28 / M-94 – Munising, NewberryNorthern end of FFH-13 signage
Munising Township36.19258.245 H-58 – Munising, Grand Marais
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

  •  
    Michigan Highways portal

References

  1. ^ a b Michigan Department of Transportation (2021). Next Generation PR Finder (Map). Michigan Department of Transportation. Retrieved October 11, 2021.
  2. ^
    OCLC 12701120
    .
  3. ^
    OCLC 12701120, 81679137
    . Retrieved October 17, 2019 – via Michigan History Center.
  4. ^
    OCLC 42778335, 786008212
    .
  5. ^ a b Michigan Department of Transportation (January 2011). Michigan's Railroad System (PDF) (Map). Lansing: Michigan Department of Transportation. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 9, 2011. Retrieved February 1, 2011.
  6. ^
    OCLC 773666955
    .
  7. ^ a b c d Google (April 20, 2012). "Overview Map of H-13/FFH-13" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved April 20, 2012.
  8. ^ Federal Highway Administration (2012). "NBI Structure Number: 000000000002140". National Bridge Inventory. Federal Highway Administration.
  9. ^ Office of Federal Lands Highway. "Forest Highways Fact Sheet" (PDF). Federal Highway Administration. Retrieved July 28, 2010.
  10. ^ Office of Federal Lands Highway (December 18, 2009). "Forest Highways". Federal Highway Administration. Archived from the original on August 18, 2010. Retrieved July 28, 2010.
  11. ^
    OCLC 12701143
    .
  12. OCLC 12701143, 317396365
    . Retrieved October 17, 2019 – via Michigan History Center.
  13. OCLC 12701143
    .
  14. OCLC 554645076
    .
  15. OCLC 12701120
    . Retrieved October 17, 2019 – via Michigan History Center.
  16. OCLC 12701120
    .
  17. Newspapers.com
    .
  18. OCLC 12701177
    . Retrieved October 17, 2019 – via Michigan History Center.
  19. OCLC 42778335
    . Retrieved October 17, 2019 – via Michigan History Center.

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