Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
and nightlife info. The local monthly repository of everything Milwaukee is
Milwaukee
Magazine.
For online help, check
www.onmilwaukee.com
,
generally the best of the half-
dozen or so web guides.
Listen to the eclectic, student-run
WMSE
at 91.7 FM. It might surprise you. The local
standby has always been
WTMJ
(620 AM) for news and talk radio.
By Air
General Mitchell International Airport
(5300 S. Howell Ave., 414/747-5300,
www.mitchellairport.com
)
is southeast of downtown, near Cudahy. It's best reached by
traveling I-94 south and following the signs. From downtown, head south on 6th Street
North; it should get you to WIS 38 (Howell Avenue). Nearly 50 cities are reached direct
from Milwaukee; more than 220 flights per day depart.
Shed a tear for Milwaukee-based Midwest Airlines, which in 2010 was taken over by
Frontier Airlines
(800/432-1359,
www.frontierairlines.com
). Oh, it's still fine, but gone
are the double-wide leather seats, among other amazing amenities; at least they kept the
famed baked-on-board cookies. Nonstop flights are available to all major and minor air-
ports in the nation.
Likeotherairports,Milwaukee'shasmoredirectflightsthanyou'dthink.Ithas36direct
flights nationwide, but some airlines only sell through their own websites. In Milwaukee,
this includes Southwest and Spirit.
MilwaukeeCountyTransitSystem
buses
runtotheairport;almostanybuscanstartyou
onyourwayifyouaskthedriverfortransferhelp.Ataxifromdowntowncosts$15-20and
takes 20 minutes. Airport limousines cost half that.
For all ground transportation questions, call the airport's hotline, 414/747-5308.
By Car
From the west, I-94 is Milwaukee's primary thoroughfare. I-894 skirts the southern and
western fringes north to south, and I-43 meets I-94 at the Marquette interchange downtown
and then heads north toward Door County.
