M-25 (Michigan highway)
{{short description|State highway in Michigan, United States}}
{{about|a Michigan state trunkline highway numbered M-25|the former U.S. Highway|U.S. Route 25 in Michigan}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox road
|state=MI
|type=M
|route=25
|map={{maplink|frame=yes|plain=yes|frame-align=center|frame-width=290|frame-height=310|frame-lat=43.522384|frame-long=-83.192366|zoom=8|type=line|from=M-25 (Michigan highway).map}}
|map_custom=yes
|map_notes=M-25 highlighted in red
|length_mi=147.638
|tourist=File:Lake Huron Circle Tour.svg Lake Huron Circle Tour
File:Michigan Historic Heritage Route.svg Center Avenue Heritage Route
|direction_a=South
|terminus_a={{jct|state=MI|BL|69|BL|94|dab1=Port Huron|dab2=Port Huron}} at Port Huron
|junction={{plainlist|1=
- {{jct|state=MI|M|90}} at Lexington
- {{jct|state=MI|M|46}} at Port Sanilac
- {{jct|state=MI|M|142}} at Harbor Beach
- {{jct|state=MI|M|53}} at Port Austin
- {{jct|state=MI|M|142}} at Bay Port
- {{jct|state=MI|M|24}} at Unionville
- {{jct|state=MI|M|15}} near Bay City }}
|direction_b=West
|terminus_b={{jct|state=MI|I|75|BS|75|dab2=Bay City|US|10|US|23}} at Bay City
|counties=St. Clair, Sanilac, Huron, Tuscola, Bay
|previous_type=US
|previous_route=25
|next_type=M
|next_route=26
}}
M-25 is a state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan. The route follows an arc-like shape closely along the Lake Huron shore of the Thumb in the eastern Lower Peninsula between Port Huron and Bay City. It serves the lakeshore resorts along Lake Huron and Saginaw Bay and generally lies within sight of the lake and the bay. All is surface road and generally scenic, except for the freeway segment near the junction with Interstate 75 (I-75) and connection into the US Highway 10 (US 10) freeway.
Between Port Huron and Port Austin it is the north–south highway was formerly US 25 before the designation was removed. Between Port Austin and Bay City it is an east–west route that appeared on some maps as US 25 and on some maps as M-25. Since the 1970s, when all of US 25 was deleted north of Cincinnati, Ohio, it is entirely signed as M-25.
Route description
=North to Port Austin=
The starting point of M-25 at a junction with Business Loop I-69/Business Loop I-94 (BL I-69/BL I-94) in Port Huron. M-25 is part of the Lake Huron Circle Tour for its entire length. From here M-25 heads north on Pine Grove Avenue until meeting M-136. At this intersection, M-25 turns north on 24th Avenue to Lakeshore Road then runs parallel to the Lake Huron shoreline.{{google maps |url= https://www.google.com/maps/dir/43.0014416,-82.4414199/43.5963405,-83.9454974/@43.8026465,-83.293144,236291m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m9!4m8!1m5!3m4!1m2!1d-83.0310177!2d44.0355633!3s0x8826fa78b333b781:0x3059484ccc3084d7!1m0!3e0 |title= Overview Map of M-25 |access-date= March 24, 2015}}
In the community of Lakeport, M-25 passes through Lakeport State Park. Past the park, M-25 changes names from Lakeshore Road to Kimball Road temporarily. M-25 intersects the east end of M-90 blocks from Lake Huron in Lexington. There are public beaches in Lexington and in Port Sanilac. M-25's street name changes after the M-46 intersection to that of North Lakeshore Road. The Huron Shores Golf Club is located off the highway north of Port Sanilac at the intersection of Snover Road. Sanilac County has established the Sanilac County Park at the intersection of Downington Road and M-25 south of Richmondville. North of Forestville M-25 is once again called South Lakeshore Road as the highway crosses into Huron County.
Wagener County Park is located off M-25 in the community of Helena. M-25 begins to curve to the northwest in Sand Beach near the Rock Falls Cemetery. In the city of Harbor Beach, M-25 is called Huron Avenue and meets M-142 for the first of two occasions. Here is the Harbor Beach Golf Course on the south side of town as M-25 moves inland through town. North of town, the trunkline parallels an old routing of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway as it is once again renamed Lakeshore Road. The highway moves farther inland north of Rubicon and Port Hope as it begins to round the tip of the Thumb. In Grindstone City, M-25 loses the Lakeshore Road name in favor of Grindstone Road all the way to Port Austin.
=West to Bay City=
Port Austin is the location of the historical northern terminus of US 25. Through town, M-25 turns north along Lake Street and runs concurrently with the northern end of M-53. The highway turns westward on Port Austin Road along the lake where M-53 terminates; this is also the point where the M-25 signage changes from northbound to westbound. West of town, M-25 turns south along the Saginaw Bay and meets Port Crescent State Park. From here south west, M-25 hugs the bay and its miles of beaches. North of Caseville is the Albert E. Sleeper State Park. Through Caseville, M-25 uses Main Street and passes the city beach off State Street. McKinley is home to the Scenic Golf & Country Club and Wild Fowl Bay. M-25 follows the shore of Wild Fowl Bay, a smaller bay off Saginaw Bay, to the city of Bay Port and the western terminus of M-142 on Fairhaven a smaller community south of Bay Port. From here south, the road is called Unionville Road and turns inland to Sebewaing.
At Unionville, M-25 turns more westerly to round the bottom of Saginaw Bay into Bay City along Bay City-Forestville Road in Tuscola County. In the community of Quanicassee, it transitions to Center Road and crosses into Bay County. M-25 is routed the one-way street pair of 7th Street and McKinley Street before crossing the Veterans Memorial Bridge over the Saginaw River. West of the bridge, the one-way pairing of Jenny Street and Thomas Street are used before the two merge into Thomas Street west of the M-13 intersections.
The western terminus is at the junction of I-75/US 23 and US 10. As the roadway crosses the I-75/US 23 freeway it feeds into the eastern end of US 10 freeway.{{cite MDOT map |year=2010 |sections= I12–K14 }}
History
=Previous designation=
The M-25 designation was first used by July 1, 1919. in the Upper Peninsula. The highway ran from Skandia along what is today M-94 to Munising. From there it used today's routing of M-28 eastward to Newberry and Sault Ste. Marie.{{cite MDOT map |date= 1919-07-01U }} This designation was replaced by M-28 in 1927.{{cite MDOT map |date=1927-12-01}}
=Current designation=
In 1933, US 25 was extended north from Port Huron to Port Austin. along M-29. M-25 was designated along the portion of M-29 disconnected by the US 25 extension, from Bay City to Port Austin.{{cite MDOT map |date=1932-10-01 |link= yes |c-link= yes |sections=I13–K14 }}{{cite MDOT map |date=1933-09-01 |sections=I13–K14 }} M-25 was extended along US 25 to Port Huron when the latter was removed from Michigan in 1973.{{cite MDOT map |year=1973 |link= yes |sections=I13–K14}}{{cite MDOT map |year=1974 |link= yes |sections=I13–K14}} The southern terminus was placed at I-94 in Marysville, Michigan until it was moved northward to end at BL I-94 (now BL I-69/BL I-94) in 1987.{{cite MDOT map |year=1987 |inset=Port Huron}}{{cite MDOT map |year=1988 |inset=Port Huron}}
The section of M-25 in the City of Bay City was named what is now called a Pure Michigan Historic Byway by the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT). This designation was created on October 23, 1997, for the section of M-25 along Center Avenue between Madison Avenue and the eastern city limits. Originally called the Bay City Historic Heritage Route",{{cite press release|first=Terrion |last=Maxwell |title=Bay City Receives Historic Heritage Route Designation |url=http://www.michigan.gov/mdot/0,1607,7-151-9620_11057-94343--,00.html |date=October 23, 1997 |access-date=May 10, 2008 |publisher=Michigan Department of Transportation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081212001534/http://www.michigan.gov/mdot/0%2C1607%2C7-151-9620_11057-94343--%2C00.html |archive-date=December 12, 2008 |url-status = dead }} it has been called the Center Avenue Heritage Route by its local stewardship committee.{{cite map |author= Center Avenue Heritage Route Trust |location= Bay City, MI |publisher= Center Avenue Heritage Route Trust |date= n.d. |map= Center Avenue Heritage Route (M-25) |title= Heritage Route Application, Appendix B: Regional and Route Location Maps |scale= Scale not given}}
Major intersections
{{MIinttop|length_ref={{cite MDOT PRFA |link= yes |access-date= August 13, 2013}}}}
{{MIint
|county=St. Clair
|cspan=3
|location=Port Huron
|lspan=3
|mile=0.000
|road={{jct|state=MI|BL|69|BL|94|dab1=Port Huron|dab2=Port Huron|name2=Hancock Street}}
|notes=}}
{{MIint
|mile=0.288
|mile2=0.355
|type=concur
|road={{jct|state=MI|I|69|I|94|dir1=west|dir2=west|Tour|LHCT|dir3=south|to1=To|location1=Bridge to Canada}}
|notes=Southern end of LHCT concurrency
}}
{{MIint
|mile=1.593
|road={{jct|state=MI|M|136|name1=Pine Grove Avenue|dir1=west}}
|notes=Eastern terminus of M-136 }}
{{MIint
|county=Sanilac
|cspan=2
|location=Lexington
|mile=17.083
|road={{jct|state=MI|M|90|name1=Huron Avenue|city1=Croswell|dir1=west}}
|notes=Eastern terminus of M-90}}
{{MIint
|location=Port Sanilac
|mile=28.449
|road={{jct|state=MI|M|46|name1=Main Street|city1=Sandusky|dir1=west}}
|notes=Eastern terminus of M-46}}
{{MIint
|county=Huron
|cspan=4
|location=Harbor Beach
|mile=57.980
|road={{jct|state=MI|M|142|name1=State Street|city1=Bad Axe|dir1=west}}
|notes=Eastern terminus of M-142}}
{{MIint
|location=Port Austin
|lspan=2
|mile=82.606
|type=concur
|road={{jct|state=MI|M|53|name1=Lake Street|city1=Bad Axe|dir1=south}}
|notes=Southern end of M-53 concurrency}}
{{MIint
|mile=82.944
|road={{jct|state=MI|M|53|name1=Lake Street|dir1=south}}
|type=concur
|notes=Northern end of M-53 concurrency; northern terminus of M-53; historic northern terminus of US 25; signage changes between north–south and east–west}}
{{MIint
|location=Fairhaven Township
|mile=111.566
|road={{jct|state=MI|M|142|city1=Bad Axe|name1=Pigeon Road|dir1=east}}
|notes=Western terminus of M-142}}
{{MIint
|county=Tuscola
|location=Unionville
|mile=121.635
|road={{jct|state=MI|M|24|city1=Caro|name1=Center Street|dir1=south}}
|notes=Northern terminus of M-24}}
{{MIint
|county=Bay
|cspan=7
|location=Bay City
|lspan=5
|mile=143.382
|road={{jct|state=MI|M|15|name1=Trumbull Street|dir1=south}}
|notes=Northern terminus of M-15}}
{{MIint
|mile=144.536
|type=concur
|road={{jct|state=MI|M|84|dir1=south|name1=Washington Avenue}}
{{jct|state=MI|BS|75|dir1=west|dab1=Bay City}}
|notes=Eastern end of BS I-75 concurrency; northern terminus of M-84; eastern terminus of BS I-75}}
{{MIint
|mile=144.765
|type=former
|road=Mechelen Drive
|notes=Former eastbound exit and entrance;{{cite map |author = United States Geological Survey |title = Bay City Quadrangle, Michigan |url = https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/topoview/viewer/#13/43.5811/-83.9342 |year = 1969 |type = Topographic map |series= 7.5 Minute Series |scale = 1:24,000 |publisher = United States Geological Survey |location = Reston, Virginia |access-date = March 17, 2022 }} Mechelen Drive obliterated, former eastbound exit retained as connection to Uptown Drive
}}
{{MIint
|mile=145.049
|type=incomplete
|road=John F. Kennedy Drive
|notes=Westbound exit only}}
{{MIint
|mile=145.948
|type=concur
|road={{jct|state=MI|M|13|Tour|LHCT|name2=Euclid Avenue|dir3=north}}
|notes=Northern end of LHCT concurrency}}
{{jctplace
|state=MI
|location=Bangor Township
|ctdab=Bay
|mile=146.332
|place=Eastern end of freeway}}
{{MIint
|location=Monitor Township
|mile=147.624
|mile2=147.638
|type=concur
|road={{jct|state=MI|I|75|US|23|city1=Saginaw|location2=Mackinac Bridge}}
{{jct|state=MI|BS|75|dir1=east|dab1=Bay City}}
{{jct|state=MI|US|10|dir1=west|city1=Midland|city2=Clare}}
|notes=Western terminus of M-25/BS I-75 and eastern terminus of US 10; road continues westward as US 10; exit 162 on I-75/US 23 and exit 140 on US 10}}
{{jctbtm|keys=closed,concur,incomplete}}
See also
- {{portal-inline|Michigan Highways}}
References
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External links
{{Commons category|M-25 (Michigan highway)|M-25}}
{{Attached KML|display=title,inline}}
- [http://www.michiganhighways.org/listings/M-025.html M-25] at Michigan Highways
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120716195513/http://www.state-ends.com/michigan/m25/ M-25] at Michigan Highway Ends
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Category:Lake Huron Circle Tour
Category:Transportation in St. Clair County, Michigan
Category:Transportation in Sanilac County, Michigan
Category:Transportation in Huron County, Michigan