Highway 57 (Wisconsin)

State Trunk Highway 57

Route information

Maintained by WisDOT

Length:

191.82 mi (308.70 km)

Existed:

1918 – present

Tourist
routes:

Lake Michigan Circle Tour

Major junctions

South end:

WIS 59 in Milwaukee

I-94 / US 41 in Milwaukee
US 18 in Milwaukee
I-43 / WIS 190 in Milwaukee
I-43 / WIS 32 / WIS 167 in Mequon
I-43 in Saukville
US 151 in Chilton
US 10 in Forest Junction
US 141 / WIS 29 in Green Bay
I-43 in Green Bay

North end:

WIS 42 in Sister Bay

Location

Counties:

Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Sheboygan, Manitowoc, Calumet, Brown, Kewaunee, Door

Highway system

Wisconsin State Trunk Highway System

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WIS 56

WIS 58

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Wisconsin Highway 57 (often called Highway 57, STH-57 or WIS 57) is a 191.82 miles (308.70 km) state highway in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It runs from its southern terminus at Wisconsin Highway 59 in Milwaukee to its northern terminus at Wisconsin Highway 42 in Sister Bay. Much of WIS 57 parallels the Interstate 43 corridor, and the highway is concurrent with I-43 for 12 miles (19 km) in Ozaukee County. Like most Wisconsin state highways, WIS 57 is maintained by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT).

WIS 57 serves as a major highway in eastern Wisconsin, and it was originally designed to connect the major cities of Milwaukee and Green Bay as well as several other large cities along its corridor. The state of Wisconsin proposed that the WIS 57 route become an Interstate Highway corridor when the Interstate Highway System was planned in the 1950s; the state's plan was rejected in favor of the current routing of Interstate 43. WIS 57 is also a major route to the popular tourist destination of Door County; it is one of only two state highways to serve the county.

When the Wisconsin State Highway system was laid out in 1918, WIS 57 ran from Racine north to Milwaukee along a route that later became U.S. Route 41 and is now Wisconsin Highway 241. By 1921, WIS 57 had been significantly expanded. It was extended northward from Milwaukee to Green Bay along what is generally its present-day route and southward from Racine to the Illinois state line. WIS 57 grew even more in 1923, when the state extended the highway northward from Green Bay to the Michigan state line. However, WIS 57 did not keep this alignment for very long. In 1927, when the U.S. Highway System was established in Wisconsin, WIS 57 was shortened at both ends. The section between Green Bay and Michigan became U.S. Route 141, and the section south of Milwaukee became part of US 41.

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