US Highway 18

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US Highway 18 road sign

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Map of US Highway 18
Basic data
Overall length:  1043 mi / 1679 km
Opening:  1926
States: Wyoming
South Dakota
Iowa
Wisconsin
Starting point:  I-25 street sign I-25 at Orin
End point:  Lincoln Memorial Drive in Milwaukee

The US Highway 18 (short US 18 ) is a United States highway in the United States . It begins on Interstate 25 at Orin , Wyoming and ends in downtown Milwaukee .

course

Wyoming

The beginning of Highway US 18 in Wyoming lies on Interstate 25 , which accompanies the North Platte River , and thus on the historic Oregon Trail over which the settlers of the 19th century moved west. It leads together with US Highway 20 to Lusk , from where it runs together with US Highway 85 in a northerly direction to Mule Creek Junction in the northeast of Niobrara County . Here it separates from US 85 and faces east. About 10 miles further, it reaches the South Dakota border.

South Dakota

The US 18 crosses the entire state near its southern border. The first place he comes across in South Dakota is Edgemont . It then leads through cities and areas such as Hot Springs , the Pine Ridge Reservation , with Pine Ridge and a little off the beaten track Wounded Knee , where the last great massacre of the Indian Wars took place in 1890 and an influential armed uprising of the American Indian Movement in 1973 . It continues through the Rosebud Indian Reservation and Winner , before crossing the Missouri River at Fort Randall Dam . On the other bank is the Yankton Reservation , where the highway runs northeast for a few miles together with US 281 . Just before Worthing , the highway uses Interstate 29 for three miles . East of Canton , it reaches the state of Iowa after crossing the Big Sioux River .

Iowa

Iowa is also crossed the full length in the sparsely populated and agricultural north of the state. Inwood is the first place the road meets after the border. US 18 continues through Spencer and Algona before in Clear Lake the Interstate 35 crosses. It then serves as the southern bypass of Mason City . Between Clear Lake and Charles City , it is part of the Avenue of the Saints , a national connection between St. Paul , Minnesota and St. Louis , Missouri diagonally to the interstate system. From Charles City, US 18 becomes a rural two-lane road again. He uses the US 63 for a good 10 km near New Hampton and the same route as the US Highway 52 for almost 30 km near Postville . Continuing east, it crosses the Mississippi River on the Marquette-Joliet Bridge between Marquette and Prairie du Chien on the other bank in Wisconsin .

Wisconsin

From Prairie du Chien, US Highway 18 initially runs south and crosses the Wisconsin River at Bridgeport . Then it runs again in an easterly direction. Together with US Highway 151, it forms a freeway between Dodgeville and Madison . The US highways 18 and 12 initially serve the southern bypass of Madison and then run together to Cambridge . After other cities like Jefferson and Waukesha , the highway ends in downtown Milwaukee as East Michigan Street on the shores of Lake Michigan .

Feeder

The US Highway currently has a feeder highway. The US Highway 218 extends from Keokuk , Iowa by Owatonna in Minnesota . US 218 crosses US 18 near the town of Floyd .

From 1926 to 1937 there was another feeder with US Highway 118 . It went from Dodgeville to Dickeyville in Wisconsin . It has been part of US Highway 151 since 1937.

Web links

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