M-48 (Michigan highway)

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Goetzville
Location
CountryUnited States
StateMichigan
CountiesChippewa, Mackinac
Highway system
← M-47→ M-49

M-48 is an east–west

Rudyard with Pickford and continues to the far eastern end of the UP. The highway runs for 43.723 miles (70.365 km) through rural parts of Chippewa County, including along the county line with Mackinac County
. Between 580 and 1,800 vehicles a day use the roadway daily.

The highway was designated by 1919 along a route that ran much farther west in the UP. Within its first decade, M-48 was extended to end at a point north of

H-40
in the 1970s.

Route description

M-48 currently starts at an interchange with

Goetzville area running through the Lake Superior State Forest. After one last north–south segment, M-48 terminates at a junction with M-134 west of DeTour Village near Albany Harbor.[3][4]

The

Lake Huron Circle Tour, a scenic drive that loops around the lake.[3] No part of the highway has been added to the National Highway System,[6] a network of roads important to the country's economy, defense, and mobility.[7]

History

On July 1, 1919, M-48 ran from

Trout Lake and eastward on to Rudyard. The highway continued to Goetzville and ran to DeTour Village at the eastern tip of the UP.[2] By 1927, the western end was moved to a point north of Newberry. M-48 was extended along US Highway 2 (US 2) to Garnet. From there, M-48 ran north to M-28 east of Newberry. It turned west along M-28 into Newberry and then north to Four Mile Corner.[8] In the mid-1930s, M-28's routing through the Newberry area was shifted. As a result of this shift, the section of M-28/M-48 in downtown was renumbered M-28A/M-48.[9][10] In the early 1940s, US 2 was moved to a new routing along the Lake Michigan shoreline. In the process, the US 2/M-48 concurrency was eliminated. By the same time, M-48 was truncated when M-134 was designated east to the DeTour area.[11][12] By the end of the decade, M-48 was truncated and rerouted on its western end, replacing the contemporary M-117 south of Rexton to US 2 in Epoufette.[13][14] All of M-48 west of US 2 was turned over to local jurisdiction and removed from the state highway system, save a section made part of M-123 in late 1960 or early 1961.[15][16] A few years later, M-48 was extended along a former section of US 2 into Rudyard to connect to the newly opened I-75/US 2 freeway in 1963.[17][18] After October 1970,[19] the former M-48 west of the current highway was designated as a part of the County-Designated Highway System.[20]

Major intersections

CountyLocationmi[1]kmDestinationsNotes
ChippewaRudyard Township0.0000.000 I-75 – St. Ignace, Sault Ste. MarieExit 373 on I-75
Trout Lake
Northern end of H-63 concurrency; eastern terminus of H-40
Rudyard Township4.5717.356
 H-63 south (Mackinac Trail)		Southern end of H-63 concurrency
LHCT north – Sault Ste. Marie
Northern end of M-129/LHCT concurrency
Cedarville
Southern end of M-129 concurrency on county line
De Tour Village
Southern end of LHCT concurrency
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 15607244
    . Retrieved December 18, 2016 – via Michigan State University Libraries.
  3. ^
    OCLC 42778335, 639960603
    .
  4. ^ Google (February 26, 2011). "Overview Map of M-48" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved February 26, 2011.
  5. ^ Michigan Department of Transportation (2007). Statewide AADT Map (PDF) (Map). Scale not given. Lansing: Michigan Department of Transportation. Retrieved October 7, 2008.
  6. ^ Michigan Department of Transportation (April 23, 2006). National Highway System, Michigan (PDF) (Map). Scale not given. Lansing: Michigan Department of Transportation. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 4, 2012. Retrieved October 7, 2008.
  7. ^ Natzke, Stefan; Neathery, Mike & Adderly, Kevin (June 20, 2012). "What is the National Highway System?". National Highway System. Federal Highway Administration. Retrieved July 1, 2012.
  8. OCLC 12701195, 79754957
    .
  9. OCLC 12701143
    .
  10. OCLC 12701143
    .
  11. OCLC 12701143
    .
  12. OCLC 12701143
    .
  13. OCLC 12701120
    .
  14. OCLC 12701120
    .
  15. OCLC 12701120, 81552576
    . Retrieved October 17, 2019 – via Michigan History Center. (Includes all changes through July 1, 1960)
  16. OCLC 12701120, 51857665
    . Retrieved October 17, 2019 – via Michigan History Center. (Includes all changes through July 1, 1961)
  17. OCLC 12701120
    . Retrieved October 17, 2019 – via Michigan History Center.
  18. OCLC 12701120, 81213707
    . Retrieved October 17, 2019 – via Michigan History Center.
  19. Newspapers.com
    .
  20. OCLC 12701120, 77960415
    .

External links

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