U.S. Route 141

; U.S. Highway 102
Location	Crystal Falls, MI–Covington, MI

	U.S. Route 141
	Maintained by WisDOT & MDOT
Length:	174.3 mi (280.5 km)
Formed:	1926
South end:	I-43 near Bellevue, WI
Major; junctions:	US 41 from Howard, WI to Abrams, WI; US 2 from Iron Mountain to Crystal Falls, MI
North end:	US 41 / M-28 near Covington, MI
	United States Numbered Highways
	Spur of US 41
	List – Bannered – Divided – Replaced

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U.S. Route 141 (US 141) is a north–south highway in the U.S. states of Michigan and Wisconsin. US 41 is its parent route. Its northern terminus, on US 41, is near Covington, Michigan; its southern terminus, with I-43 near Bellevue, Wisconsin; it remains in existence in Green Bay, Wisconsin as a surface street. From Green Bay northward, US 141 runs concurrently with the US 41 freeway to Abrams.

The section of US 141 north of Crystal Falls, Michigan was U.S. Route 102 when the US Highway system was formed in 1926. It was replaced by US 141 in 1928 when the latter was extended north out of Wisconsin.

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US 141 in the Green Bay area runs along city streets starting on the southeast side of the city running northwesterly towards Howard. In Howard, it joins with US 41, running concurrently with the US 41 freeway north to Abrams. US 141 splits off to the west as a four-lane expressway from Abrams to Pound. From Pound north, US 141 is a two-lane rural highway northward. US 141 crosses into Michigan on the Menominee River bridge in Niagara.

Once in Michigan, 1 mile (2 km) west of Quinnesec, US 141 meets and joins US 2. The two highway designations run together westward into Iron Mountain along Stephenson Avenue passing through a retail business corridor and into downtown. M-95 joins the two highways passing Lake Antoine. M-95 turns off north of town and US 2/US 141 crosses the Menominee River back into Wisconsin.

US 2/US 141 makes a short 14.46-mile (23.27 km) swing through Florence County, serving the communities of Spread Eagle and Florence. The only junction with another state trunk highway in Wisconsin on the northern section is with Highway 70 in Florence. The highway crosses back into Michigan on a bridge over the Brule River south of Crystal Falls

US 141 separates from the US 2 concurrency in Crystal Falls. Running northward, US 141 passes to the east of the Ottawa National Forest through rural Iron County. South of Covington, US 141 turns east along M-28 for 4 miles (6 km) before terminating at US 41.

[edit] History

The portion north of Crystal Falls was once U.S. Route 102. As originally proposed in 1925, US 102 was to have departed from US 2 at Rapid River, continued via Marquette and westerly into Baraga County, where it would have ended at US 41 near Covington. However, when the final plan was approved and implemented in 1926-27, US 41 had been rerouted over the originally-proposed route of US 102, while US 102 had been moved to the west via a route originally proposed for US 41 from Crystal Falls to Covington. Only two years later, in 1928, the US 102 designation was removed when US 141 was extended northerly from Wisconsin via Iron Mountain to Crystal Falls, then north to Covington over the route formerly occupied by US 102.^[2] US 102 thus became the first U.S. highway to be decommissioned.^[2]

U.S. 141 had a southern terminus in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin before Interstate 43 supplanted almost all of the segment between Green Bay and Milwaukee. North of Green Bay it lies generally to the west of U.S. 41 except for a short segment that it shares with U.S. 41, and is a shorter route than U.S. 41 between the Keweenaw Peninsula and Green Bay. From Green Bay southward it lay to the east of U.S. 41 and was a shorter route than U.S. 41; much of it was close to the western shore of Lake Michigan through such cities as Manitowoc; Sheboygan; and Port Washington. As Interstate 43 was completed in 1981 it supplanted all of U.S. 141 south of its current southern terminus.^[2]

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[edit] Major intersections

Mileage numbers reset at the Michigan/Wisconsin state line crossings.

County	Location	Mile^[3]	Roads intersected	Notes
Brown	Bellevue		I-43 / CTH MM	Southern terminus
	Bellevue		WIS 29 east – Kewaunee
	Green Bay		WIS 29 west / WIS 54 / WIS 57 – Algoma, Sturgeon Bay, Shawano
			Military Avenue	Former BUS US 41
			US 41 – Appleton	Interchange
Oconto	Abrams		US 41 – Oconto, Marinette	Interchange
	Stiles Jct		WIS 22 – Oconto Falls, Oconto	Interchange
	Lena		CTH A – Lena	Interchange
Marinette	Coleman		CTH B – Coleman	Interchange
	Pound		WIS 64 – Marinette, Mountain
	Beaver		CTH P – Beaver
	Crivitz		CTH A north / CTH W – Athelstane	Former western terminus for WIS 158
	Middle Inlet		CTH X – Middle Inlet	Menominee River County Park, Twin Bridges County Park
	Wausaukee		WIS 180 south – Marinette
	Wausaukee		CTH C west – Athelstane, Silvercliff
	Amberg		CTH K east	Becomes Chalk Hills Road and intersects CR 356 in Michigan after crossing Menominee River
	Amberg		CTH V south	Amberg Business District
	Beecher		CTH L west	Ends near 12 Foot Falls County Park
	Beecher		CTH Z east	Becomes G-18 in Michigan after crossing Menominee River
	Pembine		US 8 west – Rhinelander, Laona, Dunbar, Goodman
	Pembine		CTH R east	Kremlin, Morgan Park
	Niagara		US 8 east – Norway
	Niagara		CTH N west – Aurora
		X.XX	Michigan State Line
Dickinson	Quinnesec	1.16	US 2 east – Escanaba
	Iron Mountain		M-95 south – Kingsford
	Iron Mountain		M-95 north – Marquette, Republic, Sagola
		8.06	Wisconsin State Line
Florence	Florence		CTH NN south	Commonwealth
Florence	Florence		WIS 70 west / WIS 101 south – Eagle River, Armstrong Creek
		X.XX	Michigan State Line
Iron	Crystal Falls	10.01	M-69 east – Sagola
Iron	Crystal Falls		US 2 west – Iron River
Baraga	Covington		M-28 west – Wakefield
Baraga	Covington		US 41 / M-28 east – Baraga, Houghton, Marquette	Northern terminus