

The highway continues eastward, intersecting US 31 ( St. East of Galien, the highway dips southward around Dayton Lake before passing south of Buchanan. The highway is the main east–west street as it crosses through Three Oaks in southern Berrien County. US 12 intersects I-94 less than a mile (1.6 km) east of this turn and continues due east along Pulaski Highway through rural farmland. The highway runs a bit inland and parallel to the Lake Michigan shore on Red Arrow Highway past the community of Grand Beach before turning eastward away from the lake on the north side of New Buffalo. US 12 enters the state of Michigan southwest of New Buffalo near the town of Michiana. The entire length of the highway east of Coldwater is listed on the National Highway System, a network of roads important to the US's economy, defense, and mobility. From there eastward, US 12 is a divided highway and then a boulevard into the Detroit area. One section runs concurrently with I-94 south of Ypsilanti. Outside of the various cities, most of US 12 is a rural, two-lane state highway.
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The full length of the highway in the state is also a Pure Michigan Byway. One section of the former US 112 was renumbered US Highway 112S ( US 112S) for a few years in the 1930s.īetween the state line near Michiana and the interchange with I-94 near New Buffalo, US 12 forms a portion of the Lake Michigan Circle Tour (LMCT). In 2010, the Niles business loop was decommissioned, but the one in Ypsilanti remains. US 112 previously had two business loops, both of which were renumbered Business US Highway 12 ( Bus. Since 1962, the highway has remained relatively unchanged aside from minor truncations in the city of Detroit. Later, US 112 replaced the first M-151 when the former was extended to New Buffalo in the mid-1930s. That highway, when it was designated in 1926 replaced the original M-23 along the Chicago Road, which was the route of the older Sauk Trail. Starting in 1959, these freeway segments were renumbered as part of I-94, and, in January 1962, US 12 was shifted to replace US Highway 112 ( US 112). In the 1940s and 1950s, sections of the highway were converted into expressways and freeways. In the Ann Arbor area, it followed a more northerly path into Detroit before terminating downtown. Joseph before turning eastward to run through Kalamazoo, Battle Creek, and Jackson. It entered from Indiana as it does now, but it followed the Lake Michigan shoreline farther north to Benton Harbor– St.

Joseph Trail, a footpath used by Native Americans before European settlement in the area. It originally replaced sections of the original M-11 and M-17 along Michigan Avenue in the state, the route of the much older St. When US 12 was designated in Michigan on November 11, 1926, along with the other original US Highways, it ran along a more northerly course. East of Ypsilanti, US 12 follows a divided highway routing on Michigan Avenue into Detroit, where it terminates at an intersection with Cass Avenue. In between Coldwater and the Ann Arbor area, the highway angles northeasterly and passes Michigan International Speedway.

It forms part of the Niles Bypass, a four-lane expressway south of Niles in the southwestern part of the state, and it runs concurrently with the Interstate 94 (I-94) freeway around the south side of Ypsilanti in the southeastern. On its western end, the highway is mostly a two-lane road that runs through the southern tier of counties roughly parallel to the Indiana state line. In Michigan, it runs for 210 miles (340 km) between New Buffalo and Detroit as a state trunkline highway and Pure Michigan Byway. US Highway 12 ( US 12) is an east–west United States Numbered Highway that runs from Aberdeen, Washington, to Detroit, Michigan. Michigan State Trunkline Highway System.Joseph, Branch, Hillsdale, Lenawee, Washtenaw, Wayne Michigan Avenue and Cass Avenue in Detroitīerrien, Cass, St.
