Portal:Michigan highways/Did you know/May 2016


 * ... that M-39 (River Rouge crossing pictured) is better known as the Southfield Freeway?
 * ... 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 M-78 used to extend south to the Indiana state line and northeast to Flint, but now only runs for about 11 mi near Battle Creek?
 * ... that both M-30 and M-129, on the Lower and Upper peninsulas respectively, follow the Michigan Meridian, an important landmark for how Michigan was surveyed?
 * ... that M-46 is only one of three trans-peninsular state highways in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan?