Interstate 69 in Michigan

This article is about the section of highway in Michigan. For the entire length of highway, see Interstate 69.

Interstate 69
I-69 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by MDOT
Length:	201.39 mi (324.11 km)
Tourist routes:	I-69 Recreational Heritage Route
Major junctions
South end:	I-69 at the Indiana border near Kinderhook
	US 12 in Coldwater I-94 near Marshall I-96 near Lansing I-496 near Lansing I-96 near Lansing US 127 near East Lansing US 23 / I-75 in Flint I-475 in Flint I-94 near Port Huron
North end:	Highway 402 at Canadian border on Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron
Highway system
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Interstate 69 (I-69) is a part of the Interstate Highway System that currently runs from Indianapolis, Indiana, to the US–Canadian border at Port Huron, Michigan. In Michigan, it is a state trunkline highway that enters the state south of Coldwater and passes through the cities of Lansing and Flint. A north–south route from the Indiana–Michigan border to Lansing, it changes direction to east–west and continues to Port Huron and the US–Canadian border. In Flint, I-69 is also known as the Chevrolet-Buick Freeway, as a tribute to the Flint automotive industry. A 30-mile (48 km) stretch of I-69 between Flint and Perry is designated as the Pearl Harbor Memorial Highway. Until 2002, US 27 was concurrent with I-69 from the Indiana–Michigan state line north to the Lansing area.

Route description

I-69 in Michigan begins at the Indiana state line just south of Kinderhook. This is just north of an interchange with the Indiana Toll Road, which carries I-80 and I-90. From there, I-69 runs northward, passing through Coldwater and then Marshall, where it encounters I-94 for the first of two times. Near Olivet, I-69 begins to turn in a northeasterly direction, passing through Charlotte on its way into the Lansing–East Lansing metropolitan area.

On Lansing's west side, I-69 is concurrent with I-96, the only such palindromic pairing in the entire Interstate Highway System. Upon leaving the I-96 multiplex, I-69 changes cardinal orientation and is signed as east–west from that point on northwest side of Lansing through Flint to Port Huron. There, I-69 joins I-94 before both routes cross the Blue Water Bridges over the St. Clair River at the Canadian border, their common eastern termini and the only jointly named Interstate freeway to make a Canadian border crossing.^{[citation needed]} I-69 is also at present the only mainline Interstate Highway in the state of Michigan that does not enter the Metro Detroit area, as well as being one of only two odd-numbered mainline Interstate Highways in America to be signed east-west (along with I-75 in South Florida).

History

The earliest freeway portion of I-69 in Michigan is a stretch built in three stages from 1959 to 1961 running from near Perry to Swartz Creek as the M-78 freeway. In 1962, the stretch of I-96, which now overlaps with I-69, was built west of Lansing. Another stretch of current I-69 alignment was built in 1964 as part of I-94 in the Port Huron area which ended at the foot of the Blue Water Bridge. In 1966, another stretch was built as M-21 near Port Huron which connected with I-94. The M-78 freeway was extended eastward passing through Flint and ending at Lapeer in 1971. The M-78 portion of the extended freeway ended in Flint and the stretch of the freeway from the Genesee–Shiawassee county line to Lapeer was designated M-21. The original stretch of I-69 between Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Lansing was concurrently designated as US 27 until that route was truncated to Fort Wayne in 2002.

Temporary I-69 between Charlotte and Morrice was a divided highway originally designated as part of M-78. I-69 also replaced part of M-21 east of Flint. In 1984, two portions of I-69 alignment were completed, a stretch from I-96 to US-27 northwest of Lansing (designated US-27 at first) and the portion between Lapeer and Port Huron which was designated I-69 upon its completion. The final 12-mile (19 km) stretch of I-69 between Charlotte and I-96 was opened in October 1992. It completed Michigan's original state-wide Interstate Highway System, although plans for a northern stretch of I-275 outside Detroit were abandoned because of local opposition.

The Lansing-to-Port Huron segment shortened travel time between those two cities, allowing motorists to bypass Detroit along the way. The northeastern portion of I-69 in Michigan provides a more direct route from Chicago to Toronto, east of the junction with I-94 near Marshall.

Exit list

County	Location	Mile	Exit	Destinations	Notes
Branch	Kinderhook Township	0.00		I-69 – Fort Wayne	I-69 enters Michigan from Indiana
			3	Copeland Road – Kinderhook
	Ovid Township– Coldwater Township		10	BL I-69 north (Fenn Road) – Coldwater
	Coldwater		13	BL I-69 south / US 12 – Quincy, Coldwater
	Coldwater Township– Girard Township		16	Jonesville Road
Calhoun	Tekonsha Township		23	Tekonsha, Girard	Exit for Old US 27 which follows Main Street in Tekonsha and Marshall Road in Branch County
			25	M-60 – Three Rivers, Jackson
	Fredonia Township		32	M-227 (F Drive South)
	Marshall		36	BL I-94 / M-96 (Michigan Avenue) – Marshall	Southern end of BL I-94 concurrency
	Marshall Township		38	I-94 – Detroit, Chicago	Northern end of BL I-94 concurrency
	Convis Township		42	N Drive North
Eaton	Walton Township		48	M-78 – Bellevue, Olivet
			51	Ainger Road – Olivet
	Carmel Township– Eaton Township		57	BL I-69 north (Cochran Road) – Charlotte
	Charlotte		60	M-50 – Charlotte, Eaton Rapids
			61	BL I-69 south (Lansing Road) – Charlotte
	Potterville		66	M-100 north (Hartel Road) – Potterville, Grand Ledge
	Windsor Township		70	Lansing Road
	Delta Charter Township		72	I-96 east – Detroit	Southern end of I-96 concurrency; concurrency uses I-96 exit numbers; signed as exit 97 southbound
			95	I-496 east – Downtown Lansing	Western terminus of I-496
			93	BL I-69 east / M-43 (Saginaw Highway) – Grand Ledge	Signed as exits 93B (east) and 93A (west)
Clinton	Watertown Township		91	I-96 west – Grand Rapids	Northern end of I-96 concurrency; I-69 changes from north–south to east–west; signed on I-69 westbound as exit 81 with access to and eastbound entrance from Frances Road
	DeWitt Township		84	Airport Road
			85	DeWitt	Exit located at DeWitt Road
			87	Old US 27
			89	US 127 – East Lansing, Lansing, Jackson, Clare	Signed as exits 89A (south) and 89B (north)
	Bath Township		92	Webster Road – Bath
			94	BL I-69 west – East Lansing
Shiawassee	Woodhull Township		98	Woodbury Road – Laingsburg
	Perry Township		105	M-52 – Owosso, Perry
	Shiawassee Township		113	Bancroft
	Vernon Township		118	M-71 – Durand, Corunna
Shiawassee– Genesee	Venice Township– Clayton Township		123	M-13 – Lennon, Saginaw
Genesee	Swartz Creek		128	Morrish Road
			129	Miller Road
	Flint		131	Bristol Road	Former M-121
	Flint Township		133	I-75 / US 23 – Saginaw, Ann Arbor, Detroit
	Flint		135	Hammerberg Road
			136	Saginaw Street – Downtown	Eastbound exit, entrance via 9th Street; westbound exit, entrance via 8th Street
			137	I-475 – Saginaw, Detroit
			138	M-54 (Dort Highway)
	Burton		139	Center Road
			141	Belsay Road
	Davison Township		143	Irish Road
			145	M-15 – Clarkston, Davison
Lapeer	Elba Township		149	Elba Road
	Lapeer		153	Lake Nepessing Road
	Lapeer Township		155	M-24 – Lapeer, Pontiac
			159	Wilder Road
	Attica Township		163	Lake Pleasant Road
	Imlay City		168	M-53 – Imlay City, Almont
St. Clair	Mussey Township		176	Capac Road – Capac
	Riley Township		180	Riley Center Road
			184	M-19 – Sandusky, Richmond
	Wales Township		189	Wales Center Road
	Kimball Township		194	Taylor Road
			196	Wadhams Road – Wadhams
	Port Huron Township		198	I-94 west – Detroit	Western end of I-94 concurrency
		198.51	199	BL I-69 east – Downtown Port Huron	Eastbound exit from I-69 and I-94 (exit 271); westbound entrance to I-69 and I-94; I-69 begins using I-94's mileposts for exit numbers
			274	Water Street, Lapeer Avenue – Port Huron	Access via collector-distributor ramps; westbound exit, eastbound entrance only to Lapeer Avenue connector
	Port Huron		275	BL I-69 west / BL I-94 west / M-25 (Pine Grove Avenue) – Lexington, Downtown Port Huron	Eastbound left exit and left entrance
			Toll Plaza (eastbound) U.S. Customs (westbound)
St. Clair River		201.39	Blue Water Bridge Connection to Highway 402 in Sarnia, Ontario
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi      Concurrency terminus •      Closed/former •      Incomplete access •      Unopened

See also

• Michigan Highways portal

External links

• I-69 at Michigan Highway Ends

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