US 131 from Kalamazoo to Cadillac through West Michigan can be a tricky road particularly when the winter snow and winds wind up. The highway's reputation for accidents and death was immortalized in a 1968 song, The Devil on Death Highway.
If you've ever driven the nearly 50-mile stretch of Interstate 94 in Indiana between Chicago and New Buffalo, you know that it's one of the most congested highways in the nation. Get ready to soon pay a toll for the privilege of driving the road.
Given the popularity of Michigan's two largest universities, you might think there would be lots of streets named Spartan and Wolverine in the state, but there are just two places where Spartan meets Wolverine
Route 66 is glamorized as the Mother Road. Chicago to Los Angeles. Through miles and miles of desert and nothing. Perhaps historic US 66 isn't America's true Mother Road. Perhaps that honor should belong to a road that starts in Northern Michigan, US 41.
There are four bridges that cross the Saginaw River in Bay City. Two of them are owned and maintained by the Michigan Department of Transportation while the other two are owned by the city. Those city owned bridges might be sold and tolled.