Portal:Michigan highways/Did you know/December 2020

Looking south down Woodward Avenue from the Maccabees Building with the Detroit skyline in the distance in July 1942

• ... that Woodward Avenue (pictured in 1942) was planned to be the most important of the five major avenues planned by Judge Augustus Woodward that extend from downtown Detroit in differing directions?
• ...that what is today the Whitefish Bay National Forest Scenic Byway was intended in 1967 to be part of a longer scenic highway that would connect a proposed lakeshore road through the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore with roads running along Whitefish Bay and the St. Marys River south of Sault Ste. Marie?
• ...that US 16 followed Grand River Avenue between Grand Rapids and Detroit, using the path of a plank road used by some of the state's earliest settlers?
• ... that the M-64 highway designation was moved twice in two years by exchanging the number with different roads?
• ...that I-75 carries sections of each of the four Great Lakes Circle Tours in the state?