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head directly up the center of the state some 200 miles before petering out into two lanes in
the Great North Woods on the way to Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
I-90andI-94splitinwesternWisconsin.TheformercontinueswesttoLaCrossebefore
crossingtheMississippiRiverandenteringMinnesota.Thelatterswoopsnorthwesttohead
for Minneapolis. Halfway to Minneapolis, US-53 is a four-lane major highway that serves
northwestern Wisconsin.
In the southern half of the state, two other four-lane arteries exist. US-151 runs from
Dubuque, Indiana, through Madison and all the way to Fond du Lac at the southern tip of
Lake Winnebago, where it joins US-41 running from the Lake Winnebago region (up to
Green Bay) southeast to Milwaukee.
Only one four-lane road bisects Wisconsin east-to-west in the northern half of the state,
and thank God the government finally got around to doing that (look at a map and you'll
noticeapreponderanceofnorth-southhighways.InEauClaire,approximately90mileseast
of Minneapolis, WI 29 joins I-94 and crosses the state all the way to Green Bay. Anything
north of here you've got two lanes all the way, and you're guaranteed to have many, many
boat trailers (if not tractors) in front of you all the way.
