U.S. Route 41 in Wisconsin
# U.S. Route 41 in Wisconsin

U.S. Highway 41 (US 41) is a north–south highway United States Numbered Highway in eastern Wisconsin. It runs from Pleasant Prairie on the Illinois border north to Marinette on the Michigan border. Most of the route is concurrent with Interstate 41 in the state, with the exception of the portion between Howard, a suburb of Green Bay, and Marinette.

## Route description

US 41 is a freeway for nearly 85 percent of its route through Wisconsin, with the exceptions being a 29-mile (47 km) expressway section from the US 141 interchange in Oconto County to Marinette and a five-mile (8.0 km) surface arterial section within Marinette. The highway runs concurrently with I-94 from Milwaukee to the Illinois border and concurrently with I-41 from Howard to the Illinois border.

US 41 runs northwest from Milwaukee and passes Fond du Lac, Oshkosh, and Appleton before heading to Green Bay. The route is a major access point for American Family Field, home of the Milwaukee Brewers Major League Baseball club, the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh air show in Oshkosh, and for Lambeau Field, the home of the Green Bay Packers NFL football team.

After leaving Green Bay, US 41 continues north to Abrams co-signed with US 141, and then it turns east off the co-signed route toward Marinette and into Michigan.

## History

The first alignment of US 41 in Wisconsin, which extended south from Marinette to the Illinois state line, was defined generally by two state trunk highways in existence in 1926: WIS 15 from Marinette to Milwaukee, and WIS 57 from Milwaukee to the Illinois state line. Signs for the newly established highway were to be placed in spring of 1927. A meeting of the Wisconsin Highway Commission in 1926 decided that no new U.S. Highway number would overlap with an existing state route number; therefore, WIS 41 was retired and renumbered when US 41 came into existence.

In Milwaukee the original routing of US 41 used Lisbon Avenue east to North 27th Street, then south along that road to the Illinois state line. After the Stadium Freeway was built in the 1960s, US 41 followed that road from Lisbon Avenue south across I-94 to National Avenue and then east to 27th Street, which is known as Layton Boulevard between National Avenue and Lincoln Avenue. WisDOT rerouted US 41 along I-94 from the Stadium Interchange to the Illinois state line, removed Layton Boulevard north of Forest Home Avenue from the state highway system and gave Layton Boulevard and 27th Street south of Forest Home Avenue the designation of WIS 241 in a compromise to avoid expansion of the original route. The old US 41 freeway section south of I-94 to National Avenue (which was realigned to accommodate the construction of American Family Field) was designated WIS 341 but is unsigned. Trailblazer signs label it Miller Park Way.

By 1955, US 41 was relocated from the corridor of today's WIS 175 and its successors to a nearby expressway in Winnebago, Fond du Lac, Dodge, Washington, Waukesha, and Milwaukee Counties.

In Green Bay, the road was rerouted in 1953 to make a curve to the right west of De Pere, going onto Ashland Avenue to the Green Bay city limits. It then turned left onto Highland Avenue (after 1968, Lombardi Avenue), going past Lambeau Field and curving right onto Military Avenue. It then turned left at Velp Avenue. US 41 then followed present day Velp Avenue north to Suamico where it merged with what is now the US 41 freeway. Until 1968 this was the outer highway for Green Bay; the area now is urbanized. The 1953–1968 Green Bay bypass was once again bypassed, sequentially, with the present US 41 freeway beginning at Velp, southerly to Lombardi in 1968; Velp north to Suamico in 1971; then from Lombardi south to De Pere in 1974.

Appleton also saw US 41 realignments over the course of time, beginning with the 1937 two-lane bypass (along the present freeway route) from Neenah northerly to a T-intersection with US 10 (today's Wisconsin Avenue, WIS 96). There, US 41 turned east with US 10, back to its original route at the intersection of US 10 (Wisconsin Avenue) and Richmond Street north of downtown Appleton, then north on Richmond to present day Northland Avenue. There it turned east on new alignment back to the original route northeast of Kaukauna. In 1940, US 41 was extended northerly from the T-intersection at US 10 for one mile (1.6 km), before making a large sweeping curve onto present day Northland Avenue to join back up with the previous bypass at Richmond Street. By 1962, the original Appleton bypass had been converted to four-lane divided highway from Oshkosh north to Northland Avenue, then north and east on new alignment bypassing the Northland Avenue bypass with the current freeway easterly to Kaukauna.

In the 1990s, a strategic effort was made along US 41 to convert the remaining expressway segments between Richfield and Abrams to freeway. The freeway conversion, which was completed by 2001, cleared the way for Interstate 41 to be designated along the corridor from the Illinois state line to Green Bay. Additionally, in the 2000s, the highway was widened to an expressway from Abrams to just west of Marinette, and included freeway bypasses around the cities of Oconto and Peshtigo.

## Exit list

| County | Location | mi | km | Exit | Destinations | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Kenosha | Pleasant Prairie | 0.00 | 0.00 | | I-41 south / I-94 east / US 41 south – Chicago | Continuation into Illinois |
| Kenosha | Pleasant Prairie | 2.04 | 3.28 | 347 | WIS 165 / CTH-Q (Lakeview Parkway) | Exit numbers follow I-94 |
| Kenosha | Pleasant Prairie | 3.43 | 5.52 | 345 | CTH-C | |
| Kenosha | Kenosha | 5.07 | 8.16 | 344 | WIS 50 – Kenosha, Lake Geneva | |
| Kenosha | Somers | 6.59 | 10.61 | 342 | WIS 158 – Kenosha | |
| Kenosha | Somers | 8.35 | 13.44 | 340 | WIS 142 / CTH-S – Burlington, Kenosha | |
| Kenosha | Town of Paris | 10.07 | 16.21 | 339 | CTH-E | |
| Racine–Kenosha county line | Mount Pleasant–Paris village/town line | 12.08 | 19.44 | 337 | CTH-KR (County Line Road) | |
| Racine | Mount Pleasant | 13.95 | 22.45 | 335 | WIS 11 – Burlington, Racine | |
| Racine | Town of Yorkville | 15.96– 16.01 | 25.69– 25.77 | 333 | WIS 20 – Waterford, Racine | |
| Racine | Caledonia | 19.64 | 31.61 | 329 | CTH-K – Racine | |
| Racine | Town of Raymond | 21.67 | 34.87 | 327 | CTH-G | |
| Racine | Town of Raymond | 23.17 | 37.29 | 326 | Seven Mile Road | |
| Racine | Caledonia | 24.10 | 38.79 | 325 | WIS 241 north (27th Street) | Permanently closed in favor of exit 324 |
| Milwaukee | Oak Creek | | | 324 | Elm Road | |
| Milwaukee | Oak Creek | 26.39 | 42.47 | 322 | WIS 100 (Ryan Road) | |
| Milwaukee | Oak Creek | 28.47 | 45.82 | 321 | Drexel Avenue | |
| Milwaukee | Oak Creek | 29.41 | 47.33 | 320 | CTH-BB (Rawson Avenue) | |
| Milwaukee | Milwaukee | 30.38 | 48.89 | 319 | CTH-ZZ (College Avenue) | |
| Milwaukee | Milwaukee | 31.08 | 50.02 | 318 | WIS 119 – General Mitchell International Airport | |
| Milwaukee | Milwaukee | 32.37 | 52.09 | 317 | CTH-Y (Layton Avenue) | |
| Milwaukee | Milwaukee | 32.53– 32.69 | 52.35– 52.61 | 316 10 | I-43 north / I-94 west – Milwaukee I-894 west | Mitchell Interchange; northern end of I-94 overlap; eastern end of I-43 and I-894 overlaps |
| Milwaukee | Milwaukee | 33.60 | 54.07 | 9 | WIS 241 – South 27th Street | No access is allowed from I-94 west or to I-94 east; exit numbers follow I-894 |
| Milwaukee | Greenfield | 34.64 | 55.75 | 8 | WIS 36 – Loomis Road | Signed as exits 8A (south) and 8B (north) |
| Milwaukee | Greenfield | 35.64 | 57.36 | 7 | South 60th Street | |
| Milwaukee | Greenfield | 36.66 | 59.00 | 5B | CTH-U (South 76th Street) | Westbound exit and eastbound entrance |
| Milwaukee | Greenfield | 36.66– 37.14 | 59.00– 59.77 | 5A-B | South 76th Street, South 84th Street | Eastbound exit and westbound entrance |
| Milwaukee | Greenfield | 36.86 | 59.32 | 5A | WIS 24 west – Forest Home Avenue | Westbound exit and eastbound entrance |
| Milwaukee | Milwaukee | 38.06 | 61.25 | 4 | I-43 south / US 45 south – Beloit, Chicago | Hale Interchange; western end of I-43 overlap; southern end of the US 45 overlap |
| Milwaukee | Greenfield | 39.32 | 63.28 | 3 | CTH-T (Beloit Road) | |
| Milwaukee | Greenfield | 39.93 | 64.26 | 2B | Oklahoma Avenue | Southbound exit and northbound entrance |
| Milwaukee | West Allis | 40.67 | 65.45 | 2A | National Avenue | Southbound exit to westbound National Avenue only |
| Milwaukee | West Allis | 40.93 | 65.87 | 1E | Lincoln Avenue | Southbound exit and northbound entrance |
| Milwaukee | West Allis | 41.89 | 67.42 | 1D | WIS 59 – Greenfield Avenue | |
| Milwaukee | Milwaukee | 42.61 | 68.57 | 1 38 | I-94 – Madison, Downtown Milwaukee, Chicago I-894 east | Zoo Interchange; western end of I-894 overlap; signed as exits 1A (east) and 1B (west) northbound and exits 38A (west) and 38B (east) southbound |
| Milwaukee | Wauwatosa | 43.36– 43.60 | 69.78– 70.17 | 39 | US 18 (Bluemound Road) / Wisconsin Avenue | Northbound exit is not signed for Wisconsin Avenue; exit numbers follow US 45 |
| Milwaukee | Wauwatosa | 44.14– 44.56 | 71.04– 71.71 | 40 | Watertown Plank Road, Swan Boulevard | Southbound exit not signed for Swan Boulevard |
| Milwaukee | Wauwatosa | 44.94 | 72.32 | 42A | WIS 100 north (Mayfair Road) / North Avenue east | Southbound exit not signed for WIS 100 |
| Milwaukee | Wauwatosa | 45.54 | 73.29 | 42B | North Avenue west | |
| Milwaukee | Wauwatosa | 46.59 | 74.98 | 43 | Burleigh Street | |
| Milwaukee | Wauwatosa | 47.59 | 76.59 | 44 | WIS 190 (Capitol Drive) | Three-level diamond interchange; access roads for the adjacent plants are also part of the interchange |
| Milwaukee | Milwaukee | 48.69 | 78.36 | 45 | CTH-EE (Hampton Avenue) | |
| Milwaukee | Milwaukee | 49.52 | 79.69 | 46 | CTH-E south (Silver Spring Drive) / WIS 100 | Southern end of WIS 100 overlap |
| Milwaukee | Milwaukee | 51.05 | 82.16 | 47 | WIS 175 (Appleton Avenue) | |
| Milwaukee | Milwaukee | 51.85 | 83.44 | 47B | CTH-PP (Good Hope Road) | Exit numbers follow US 41 |
| Milwaukee | Milwaukee | 52.15– 52.94 | 83.93– 85.20 | 48 | WIS 145 | |
| Waukesha | Menomonee Falls | 54.64– 54.77 | 87.93– 88.14 | 50 | WIS 74 west / WIS 100 east (Main Street) | Northern end of WIS 100 overlap; signed as exits 50A (east) and 50B (west) |
| Waukesha | Menomonee Falls | 55.45 | 89.24 | 51 | Pilgrim Road | Signed as exits 51A (north) and 51B (south) |
| Washington | Germantown | 56.68 | 91.22 | 52 | CTH-Q (County Line Road) | |
| Washington | Germantown | 58.63 | 94.36 | 54 | WIS 167 east (Mequon Road) / CTH-Y (Lannon Road) | Southern end of WIS 167 overlap |
| Washington | Germantown | 61.64 | 99.20 | 57 | WIS 167 west (Holy Hill Road) | Northern end of WIS 167 overlap |
| Washington | Richfield | 63.27 | 101.82 | 59 | US 45 north – West Bend | Northern end of US 45 overlap; northbound exit and southbound entrance |
| Washington | Richfield | 64.37 | 103.59 | 60 | CTH-FD to WIS 145 | Signage reads WIS 145; ramp signage reads CTH-FD TO WIS 145 |
| Washington | Slinger | 68.17 | 109.71 | 64 | WIS 60 (Commerce Boulevard) – Jackson, Slinger, Hartford | Signed as exits 64A (east, Jackson) and 64B (west, Slinger, Hartford) northbound |
| Washington | Town of Polk | 70.45 | 113.38 | 66 | WIS 144 – West Bend, Slinger | |
| Washington | Town of Hartford | 72.12 | 116.07 | 68 | CTH-K | |
| Washington | Town of Addison | 76.37 | 122.91 | 72 | WIS 33 / CTH-W – West Bend, Allenton | |
| Washington | Town of Wayne | 79.59 | 128.09 | 76 | CTH-D | |
| Dodge | Town of Theresa | 85.22 | 137.15 | 81 | WIS 28 – Mayville, Kewaskum | |
| Dodge | Lomira | 89.24 | 143.62 | 85 | WIS 67 – Lomira, Campbellsport | |
| Dodge | Town of Lomira | 91.29 | 146.92 | 87 | WIS 49 / CTH-KK – Brownsville, Waupun | |
| Fond du Lac | Town of Byron | 96.10 | 154.66 | 92 | CTH-B – Oakfield, Eden | |
| Fond du Lac | Fond du Lac | 99.71– 99.72 | 160.47– 160.48 | 95 | US 45 south / US 151 – Madison, Manitowoc | Southern end of US 45 overlap |
| Fond du Lac | Fond du Lac | 101.01 | 162.56 | 97 | CTH-VVV (Hickory Street) | |
| Fond du Lac | Fond du Lac | 101.84 | 163.90 | 98 | CTH-D (Military Road) | Former US 151 |
| Fond du Lac | Fond du Lac | 103.74 | 166.95 | 99 | US 45 north / WIS 23 (Johnson Street) | Northern end of US 45 overlap |
| Fond du Lac | North Fond du Lac | 104.24 | 167.76 | 101 | CTH-OO (Winnebago Street) | |
| Winnebago | Town of Eldorado | 110.27 | 177.46 | 106 | CTH-N – Van Dyne | |
| Winnebago | Town of Nekimi | 117.47 | 189.05 | 113 | WIS 26 / CTH-N – Rosendale, Waupun | |
| Winnebago | Oshkosh | 120.22 | 193.48 | 116 | WIS 44 / WIS 91 (South Park Avenue, Ripon Road) | |
| Winnebago | Oshkosh | 121.64 | 195.76 | 117 | 9th Avenue | |
| Winnebago | Oshkosh | 123.14 | 198.17 | 119 | WIS 21 (Omro Road, Oshkosh Avenue) | |
| Winnebago | Oshkosh | 125.05 | 201.25 | 120 | US 45 (Algoma Boulevard) to US 10 west | To US 10 west not signed southbound |
| Winnebago | Oshkosh | 128.10 | 206.16 | 124 | WIS 76 (Jackson Street) | |
| Winnebago | Neenah | 133.30 | 214.53 | 129 | Bell Street, Breezewood Lane | |
| Winnebago | Neenah | 134.67 | 216.73 | 131 | WIS 114 / CTH-JJ (Winneconne Avenue) | |
| Winnebago | Neenah | 135.61 | 218.24 | 132 | Main Street, Oak Ridge Road | No entrance ramps |
| Winnebago | Fox Crossing | 136.35 | 219.43 | 133 | CTH-II (Winchester Road) | |
| Winnebago | Fox Crossing | 137.81 | 221.78 | 134 | US 10 east / WIS 441 north | |
| Winnebago | Fox Crossing | 137.86 | 221.86 | 134 | US 10 west | |
| Winnebago | Fox Crossing | 139.62 | 224.70 | 136 | CTH-BB (Prospect Avenue) | |
| Outagamie | Town of Grand Chute | 140.88 | 226.72 | 137 | WIS 125 (College Avenue) / CTH-CA – Appleton International Airport, Downtown | |
| Outagamie | Town of Grand Chute | 141.65 | 227.96 | 138 | WIS 96 (Wisconsin Avenue) | |
| Outagamie | Town of Grand Chute | 142.71 | 229.67 | 139 | WIS 15 / CTH-OO (Northland Avenue) to CTH-A | To CTH-A not signed southbound |
| Outagamie | Town of Grand Chute | 145.67 | 234.43 | 142 | WIS 47 (Richmond Street) | |
| Outagamie | Appleton | 147.67 | 237.65 | 144 | CTH-E (Ballard Road) | |
| Outagamie | Appleton | 148.59– 148.61 | 239.13– 239.16 | 145 | WIS 441 south | |
| Outagamie | Little Chute | 151.10 | 243.17 | 146 | CTH-N – Little Chute | |
| Outagamie | Kaukauna | 152.78 | 245.88 | 148 | WIS 55 – Seymour, Kaukauna | |
| Outagamie | Kaukauna | 153.99 | 247.82 | 150 | CTH-J – Kaukauna | |
| Outagamie | Town of Kaukauna | 158.25 | 254.68 | 154 | CTH-U – Wrightstown | |
| Brown | Town of Lawrence | 161.21 | 259.44 | 157 | CTH-S – Freedom | |
| Brown | Town of Lawrence | 181.87 | 292.69 | 161 | CTH-F (Scheuring Road) | |
| Brown | Ashwaubenon | 167.12 | 268.95 | 163A | CTH-G (Main Avenue) | Signed as exit 163 southbound |
| Brown | Ashwaubenon | 167.40 | 269.40 | 163B | WIS 32 north (Ashland Avenue) – Green Bay | Northbound exit and southbound entrance |
| Brown | Ashwaubenon | 168.39 | 271.00 | 164 | CTH-AAA (Oneida Street, Waube Lane) | |
| Brown | Ashwaubenon | 169.36– 169.46 | 272.56– 272.72 | 165 | WIS 172 to I-43 / WIS 57 – A. Straubel Airport | To WIS 57 not signed northbound |
| Brown | Ashwaubenon | 171.14 | 275.42 | 167 | CTH-VK (Lombardi Avenue, Hazelwood Lane) | |
| Brown | Green Bay | 172.18 | 277.10 | 168 | WIS 32 south / WIS 54 (Mason Street) | Southern end of WIS 32 overlap |
| Brown | Howard | 173.17 | 278.69 | 169 | WIS 29 (Shawano Avenue) / WIS 32 north / Dousman Street | Northern end of WIS 32 overlap |
| Brown | Howard | 174.75 | 281.23 | 170A | US 141 south / CTH-HS (Velp Avenue) | Southern end of US 141 overlap; former exit 170 |
| Brown | Howard | 175.16– 175.43 | 281.89– 282.33 | 170B | I-43 south / LMCT – Milwaukee | Northern terminus of I-41 and I-43; northern end of I-41 overlap; former exit 171 |
| Brown | Town of Suamico | | | 173 | CTH-M (Lineville Road) | |
| Brown | Town of Suamico | | | 176 | CTH-B (Sunset Beach Road) – Suamico | |
| Oconto | Town of Little Suamico | | | 179 | Brown Road | |
| Oconto | Town of Little Suamico | | | 182 | CTH-S | |
| Oconto | Town of Abrams | | | 185 | CTH-D (Sampson Road) to CTH-EE – Abrams | |
| Oconto | Town of Abrams | | | 187 | US 141 north – Crivitz, Iron Mountain | Northern end of US 141 overlap |
| Northern end of freeway |||||||
| Oconto | Town of Pensaukee | | | | CTH-J – Brookside, Little Suamico | |
| Oconto | Town of Pensaukee | | | | CTH-SS – Pensaukee | |
| Southern end of freeway |||||||
| Oconto | ​ | | | 197 | Bus. US 41 north – Oconto | Northbound exit and southbound entrance |
| Oconto | Oconto | | | 198 | WIS 22 / CTH-Y – Oconto, Oconto Falls, Gillett | |
| Oconto | ​ | | | 200 | Bus. US 41 south to CTH-S – Oconto | Southbound exit and northbound entrance |
| Northern end of freeway |||||||
| Oconto | ​ | | | | CTH-A east | Southern end of CTH-A overlap |
| Oconto | ​ | | | | CTH-A west – Lena | Northern end of CTH-A overlap |
| Marinette | County Line | | | | CTH-W – County Line | |
| Marinette | Grover | | | | CTH-M – Coleman | |
| Southern end of freeway |||||||
| Marinette | ​ | | | 212 | Bus. US 41 north / CTH-Y – Peshtigo | |
| Marinette | ​ | | | 216 | Bus. US 41 south – Peshtigo | |
| Northern end of freeway |||||||
| Marinette | Marinette | | | | CTH-T (Roosevelt Road) to WIS 180 | |
| Marinette | Marinette | | | | WIS 64 west (Hall Avenue) to WIS 180 | |
| Menominee River | Menominee River | | | Wisconsin–Michigan state line | Wisconsin–Michigan state line | Wisconsin–Michigan state line |
| Menominee River | Menominee River | | | | US 41 north / LMCT – Menominee, Escanaba | Continuation into Michigan |
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Closed/former Concurrency terminus Incomplete access Unopened |||||||
