U.S. Route 41

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U.S. Route 41
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Length: 2000 mi[1] (3219 km)
Formed: 1926[1]
South end: Image:US 1.svgImage:Florida 5.svgImage:Florida 90.svg US 1/FL 5/FL 90 in Miami, FL
Major
junctions: 		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.svgImage: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.svgImage:I-90.svgImage:Indiana Toll Road logo 1968.png I-80/I-90/IN Toll Road at Hammond, IN
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
List - Bannered - Divided - Replaced
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U.S. Route 41

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 Brickell Avenue (U.S. Route 1).

It closely parallels Interstate 75 from Naples, Florida, all the way through Georgia to Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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The southern terminus of US 41 at U.S. Route 1 in Miami, Florida
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[edit] Florida

See also: Tamiami Trail

Between Miami and Naples, US 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).

US 41 is in the process of being widened throughout the northern Tampa Bay suburbs. It's currently 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, Florida, and south of Inverness. A large portion of US 41 is co-designated along unmarked SR 45 between Belle Meade and High Springs.

From US 92 in Tampa to US 41 Business and State Road 676 near unincorporated Palm River-Clair Mel, US 41 carries the unsigned State Road 599 designation. It contains the northwestern end of the Tamiami Trail at the SR 60 intersection. It is normally three lanes wide, but between Interstate 4 and the northern terminus of SR 569 is only two lanes wide. The unsigned state highway is 5.54 miles long. At the northern terminus, US 41 turns west. (If one continues straight, 40th Street leads to Busch Gardens Africa.) Major intersections include State Road 574, SR 569, I-4, SR 60, and SR 618.

In Northern Florida, US 41 runs along the DeSoto Trail between Lake City and High Springs, and again between Williston and Floral City.

[edit] Georgia

Highway 41 is also known as Cobb Parkway as it passes through the Cobb County suburbs of Atlanta. This busy street is home to Cumberland Mall, the Cobb Galleria, the notable Marietta landmark, the Big Chicken and, further north, the Six Flags White Water amusement park. Each Labor Day weekend, the US 10K race is staged along this highway. U.S. 41 also passes through the Georgia cities Ringgold, Dalton, Calhoun, Cartersville, Griffin, Barnesville, Forsyth, Macon, Perry, Unadilla, Vienna, Cordele, Ashburn, Tifton, Adel, Hahira and Valdosta.

[edit] Tennessee

U.S. 41, united with U.S. 76, enters Tennessee east of I-75 on the outskirts of East Ridge. It is called Ringgold Road through East Ridge up to the Bachman Tunnel, where it enters Chattanooga. In Chattanooga U.S. 41/U.S. 76 becomes Westside Drive up to the intersection with Dodds Avenue, where for a short distance it is coexistent with Dodds Avenue. Then U.S. 41/76 becomes East Main Street in downtown Chattanooga up to the intersection with Broad Street (U.S. 11/U.S. 64). At this point U.S. 76 terminates and U.S. 72 begins, and the now-U.S. 41/U.S. 76 merges with U.S. 11/U.S. 64, trekking southwestward around the base of Lookout Mountain into the Tiftonia community. Just west of the Tiftonia community, U.S. 11 splits off and veers southwestward into Georgia. The now-U.S. 41/64/72 takes a westward path from Hamilton County into Marion County.

[edit] Kentucky

In the state of Kentucky, U.S. Route 41 runs from the just North of the Ohio River to Guthrie, Kentucky in Todd County. There is a more than century-old border dispute between Indiana and Kentucky that is reflected by the route of U.S. 41. This route is one of the few places where the Kentucky/Indiana border deviates from the Ohio River.

After crossing the River, U.S. 41 passes John James Audubon State Park, and passes slightly east of the city of Henderson. The route then crosses into Webster County, where it passes through the town of Sebree. Next, it crosses into Hopkins County and passes through Slaughters, Hanson, Madisonville, Earlington, and Nortonville. It then goes into Christian County and Todd County.

[edit] Indiana

Main article: U.S. Route 41 in 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. This is a distance of approximately 382 miles (615 km).[2]

For its entire length north of Evansville, U.S. 41 passes through largely rural portions of far western Indiana. It overlaps 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. However north of Terre Haute, U.S. 41 becomes a secondary road, passing through smaller towns such as Rockville and Attica on the east side of the Wabash River. Indiana State Road 63 is the main route north of Terre Haute at this point as a four lane highway on the west side of the Wabash.

[edit] Illinois

Main article: U.S. Route 41 in Illinois
See also: Skokie Highway and Lake Shore Drive
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Double-deck bascule bridge carrying Lake Shore Drive over the Chicago River in 1987.

US 41 enters Illinois cosigned with US 12 and US 20 on Indianapolis Avenue beneath the Chicago Skyway. After separating from US 12 and US 20, US 41 changes streets numerous times over the course of two miles. Immediately after separating from US 12/US 20, US 41 is known as Ewing Avenue. The route then follows Mackinaw Avenue, 87th Street, Burley Avenue, 85th Street, Baker Avenue, and Bond Avenue before becoming South Shore Drive (which itself requires two turns to stay on). 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 extension of Avenue O to Ewing Avenue.[3] In Jackson Park, US 41 turns north onto Lake Shore Drive, passing through Chicago's lakefront area as it runs along the western shore of Lake Michigan and past downtown Chicago.

At Foster Avenue, US 41 separates from Lake Shore Drive, following Foster west to Broadway, where US 41 intersects US 14. Here, US 14 originates as northbound Broadway. US 41 continues on Foster to Lincoln Avenue, then continues north on Lincoln to Peterson Avenue, where it intersects US 14 a second time not more than two miles from the initial junction. The route remains on Lincoln to Skokie Boulevard, where US 41 turns north onto Skokie and parallels Interstate 94 as it heads through northern Chicago.

In the northern suburbs of Chicago, US 41 joins I-94 north for a short distance before splitting from the expressway and continuing north as the Skokie Highway for roughly 25 miles to a point near the Wisconsin border. Just south of the border, US 41 rejoins I-94. The two routes continue northward into Wisconsin.

[edit] Wisconsin

Main article: U.S. Route 41 in Wisconsin

In Milwaukee, I-94 and US 41 separate at Miller Park and the Menomonee River.

At Marinette, US 41 crosses the Menominee River at its mouth and enters Michigan.

[edit] Michigan

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Sign marking northern terminus, east of Copper Harbor, Michigan

US 41 bypasses both downtown Escanaba and downtown Marquette via short, regional expressways. Between the two cities, US 41 roughly follows the western edge of the Hiawatha National Forest.

At Houghton, US 41 passes the Michigan Technological University and crosses the Portage Lake Lift Bridge.

At the northern end of US 41 in Copper Harbor, there are two mileage signs that give the distance to Miami as 1990 miles.[4][5]

[edit] History

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See also: Tamiami Trail

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.

US 41 initially took a more westerly route between Nashville, Tennessee and Hopkinsville, Kentucky; the current US 41 was U.S. Route 241. In 1930, the two routes became U.S. Route 41W and U.S. Route 41E, and in 1943 the western route became U.S. Route 41 Alternate, with the main US 41 moving to the east route.

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] Major intersections

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US 41 in Baraga County, Michigan

[edit] Bannered routes

[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] Business loops and spurs

[edit] See also

[edit] Related routes

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Droz, Robert V. U.S. Highways : From US 1 to (US 830). URL accessed 22:46, 20 February 2006 (UTC).
  2. ^ Estimated distance via Rand McNally 2004 U.S. Road Atlas.
  3. ^ U.S. 41 relocation project
  4. ^ US-41 endpoint photos
  5. ^ Gallery 1: Northern Michigan

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