U.S. Route 41

U.S. Route 41
Length: 2000 mi (3218.7 km )
Formed: 1926
South end: US 1 in Miami, FL
Major
junctions: I-4 at Tampa, FL

I-10 near Lake City, FL
I-20 at Atlanta, GA
I-24 at Chattanooga, TN
I-40 / I-65 at Nashville, TN
I-64 near Evansville, IN
I-70 at Terre Haute, IN
I-80 / I-94 at Hammond, IN
I-90 at Chicago, IL
I-55 at Chicago, IL
I-43 at Milwaukee, WI
US 2 at Powers, MI

North end: Ft. Wilkins State Park, MI
United States Numbered Highways
U.S. Routes - Bannered - Divided - Replaced

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 ).

States traversed

The highway passes through the following states:

Florida

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 , and south of Inverness . A large portion of US 41 is co-designated along unmarked SR 45 between Belle Meade and High Springs .

State Road 599

State Road 599 is a secret route of US 41 from the US 41 / US 92 intersection in Tampa to near unincorporated Palm River-Clair Mel at the BUS US 41 and the SR 676 intersection. It contains the northwestern end of the Tamiami Trail at the SR 60 intersection. It is normally 3 lanes wide, but between Interstate 4 and the northern terminus of SR 569 is only 2 lanes wide. The "secret" state route is 5.54 miles long. At the northern terminus, US 41 turns west. If you keep going on 40th Street, you'll end up in Busch Gardens Africa . Major intersections include SR 574 , SR 569 , I-4 , SR 60 , and SR 618 .

Business routes

Four Business US 41's exist in Florida:

BUS US 41 - Fort Myers BUS US 41 - Venice BUS US 41 - Bradenton BUS US 41 - Tampa

Georgia

Tennessee

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.

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.

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).
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. 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.
Illinois
In the state of Illinois , U.S. Route 41 is a major north-south arterial that runs from the Indiana border beneath the Chicago Skyway north through the heart of Chicago and through its northern suburbs into Wisconsin . It is one of the most heavily traversed roads in Illinois and is most notable for its lakefront stretch in downtown Chicago, where it is called Lake Shore Drive .
Wisconsin Main article: U.S. Route 41 in 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.

Michigan

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
Miami, Florida Fort Myers, Florida Naples, Florida Sarasota, Florida Tampa, Florida Valdosta, Georgia Macon, Georgia Atlanta, Georgia Chattanooga, Tennessee Murfreesboro, Tennessee Nashville, Tennessee Evansville, Indiana Madisonville, Kentucky Terre Haute, Indiana Chicago, Illinois Milwaukee, Wisconsin Fond du Lac, Wisconsin Oshkosh, Wisconsin Neenah, Wisconsin Menasha, Wisconsin Appleton, Wisconsin Wrightstown, Wisconsin Green Bay, Wisconsin Marquette, Michigan
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 .
U.S. Route 41 and Popular Culture
The musical group Iron & Wine referenced the highway in their song "Prison On Route 41": "There's a prison on Route 41" "Home to my father, first cousin, and son" "And I visit every weekend" "Not with my body but with prayers that I send"

The musical group the Allman Brothers Band , who hail from Macon, Georgia, referenced U.S. 41, which passes through their hometown, in the hit song "Ramblin' Man":

"My father was a gambler down in Georgia; He wound up on the wrong end of a gun. And I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus, Rollin' down highway 41."

The musical group Aliota Haynes & Jeremiah had a regional hit in the mid-70's with the song "Lake Shore Drive," which refers to the route that carries U.S. 41 through their hometown of Chicago, Illinois along the shore of Lake Michigan. The song also uses the route's initials, L.S.D., as a double-entendre, the other meaning being LSD-25, or lysergic acid dimethylamide, the psychedelic drug popular as a recreational drug at the time.

Intersections

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

Interstate 95 in Miami, Florida State Road 826 in West Miami, Florida State Road 821 (the Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike ) near Sweetwater, Florida Interstate 275 (Florida) north of Bradenton, Florida Interstate 4 in eastern Tampa, Florida Interstate 275 in northern Tampa, Florida Interstate 75 14 miles south of Lake City, Florida Interstate 10 4 miles north of Lake City, Florida Interstate 75 north of Tifton, Georgia Interstate 75 in Unadilla, Georgia Interstate 75 5 miles north of Unadilla, Georgia Interstate 75 in Perry, Georgia Interstate 75 in Macon, Georgia Interstate 475 (Georgia) 14 miles northwest of Macon, Georgia Interstate 75 in Morrow, Georgia Interstate 285 in southern Forest Park, Georgia Interstate 75 in southern Atlanta, Georgia Interstate 85 in southern Atlanta, Georgia ( Hapeville ) Langford Parkway in Atlanta, Georgia - indirect Interstate 20 in Atlanta, Georgia Interstate 75 twice in northern Atlanta, Georgia Interstate 75 north of Calhoun, Georgia Interstate 75 in Rocky Face, Georgia Interstate 75 in Ringgold, Georgia Interstate 75 in Chattanooga, Tennessee Interstate 24 three times in Chattanooga, Tennessee Interstate 24 3 miles south of Manchester, Tennessee Interstate 24 6 miles northwest of Manchester, Tennessee State Route 840 south of Smyrna, Tennessee Interstate 24 in eastern Nashville, Tennessee Interstate 65 in downtown Nashville, Tennessee Interstate 24 in downtown Nashville, Tennessee Interstate 65 in northern Nashville, Tennessee Edward T. Breathitt Pennyrile Parkway in Hopkinsville, Kentucky Edward T. Breathitt Pennyrile Parkway in Madisonville, Kentucky Wendell H. Ford Western Kentucky Parkway near Madisonville, Kentucky Interstate 64 14 miles north of Evansville, Indiana Interstate 70 in Terre Haute, Indiana Interstate 80 / Interstate 94 in Hammond, Indiana Interstate 90 in Hammond, Indiana Indiana State Route 912 in Hammond, Indiana Interstate 90 in southeastern Chicago, Illinois At the terminus of Interstate 55 south of downtown Chicago, Illinois Interstate 94 in Wilmette, Illinois (concurrent for 5 miles to Highland Park, Illinois ) Interstate 94 near the Wisconsin/Illinois border (concurrent through Milwaukee, Wisconsin ) U.S. Route 45 in northwestern Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Oshkosh, Wisconsin U.S. Route 10 in Menasha, Wisconsin Wisconsin Highway 441 (also known as the Tri-County Expressway ) in Menasha, Wisconsin Wisconsin Highway 441 in Appleton, Wisconsin Wisconsin Highway 172 in Green Bay, Wisconsin Interstate 43 in northern Green Bay, Wisconsin

Related US routes

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

U.S. Route 141 U.S. Route 241 (defunct) U.S. Route 341 U.S. Route 441 U.S. Route 541 (defunct) U.S. Route 641

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: from , from . Almost half of US 41 is east of US 31.

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