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 portion bisecting Branch County, Michigan was built in 1967. 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, in which I-69 is the only mainline Interstate in Michigan to not go through the city of Detroit, or even Metro Detroit. 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	km	Exit	Destinations	Notes
Branch	Kinderhook Township	0.00	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	319.47	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	324.11	Blue Water Bridge Connection to Highway 402 in Sarnia, Ontario
Concurrency terminus       Closed/former       HOV only       Incomplete access       Tolled/ETC       Unopened

See also

• Michigan Highways portal

External links

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• I-69 at Michigan Highway Ends

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