INTERSTATE 75

'Interstate 75' (abbreviated 'I-75') is a north / south interstate highway in the midwest and southeastern United States. It travels from State Road 826 (Palmetto Expressway) and State Road 924 (Gratigny Parkway) in Hialeah, Florida (just west of Miami) to Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, at the Ontario, Canada border.

Contents

History

Length

Major cities and structures

Major junctions

Spur routes

Lane configurations

Notes

Georgia

Tennessee

See also

References

Sources

External links

History

This limited access highway planned in the 1950s roughly follows the general route of many older at grade highways, including U.S. Route 2, U.S. Route 27, U.S. Route 25, and U.S. Route 41, among others. Some of these older U.S. Routes (several of which are still in existence) in turn replaced the eastern route of the old Dixie Highway. The final stretch of Interstate 75 was completed in 1986 in Dade (present Miami-Dade) and Broward Counties in Florida, although the last stretch to receive the I-75 signage was a revamped Alligator Alley in 1993.

Length

'Miles'	'km'	'state'
470.655	757.446	Florida
355.11	571.49	Georgia
161	259	Tennessee
192	309	Kentucky
211	340	Ohio
396	637	Michigan
1,786	2,874	Total

Major cities and structures

Bolded cities are officially-designated control cities and other structures for signs.


★ 'Miami, Florida'

★ 'Naples, Florida'

★ Fort Myers, Florida

★ Sarasota, Florida

★ 'Tampa, Florida'

★ Ocala, Florida

★ Gainesville, Florida

★ 'Lake City, Florida'

★ 'Valdosta, Georgia'

★ 'Macon, Georgia'

★ 'Atlanta, Georgia'

★ 'Marietta, Georgia'

★ 'Chattanooga, Tennessee'

★ Cleveland, Tennessee

★ 'Knoxville, Tennessee'

★ 'Lexington, Kentucky'

★ 'Cincinnati, Ohio'

★ 'Dayton, Ohio'

★ 'Toronto' and 'Montreal' on a sign in Tipp City, Ohio ("via ON-401", northbound-only)

★ 'Toledo, Ohio'

★ 'Detroit, Michigan' (also lists Windsor, Ontario/"Canada" close to the Ambassador Bridge)

★ 'Flint, Michigan'

★ 'Saginaw, Michigan'

★ Mackinac Bridge (displayed as the control "city" for northbound I-75 between it and Saginaw)

★ St. Ignace, Michigan (displayed as the control city for southbound I-75 between it and Sault Ste. Marie)

★ 'Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan'

Major junctions

★ Florida's Turnpike (Homestead Extension) near Miami Lakes, Florida (northbound entrance and southbound exit)

★ Interstate 595 in Davie, Florida, serving Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport

★ Interstate 275 near Parrish, Florida

★ Interstate 4 near Tampa, Florida

★ Interstate 275 near Lutz, Florida

★ Interstate 10 in Lake City, Florida

★ Interstate 475 around Macon, Georgia (twice).

★ Interstate 16 in Macon, Georgia '(Map)'

★ Interstate 675 near Stockbridge, Georgia

★ Interstate 285 outside Atlanta (loop around the city), on the southeast side in Clayton County and on the northwest side in Smyrna

★ Interstate 85 in Atlanta. They stay connected for several miles through downtown on a highway known as the Downtown Connector.

★ Interstate 20 in Atlanta

★ Interstate 24 in Chattanooga, Tennessee

★ Interstate 40 near Dixie Lee Junction, Tennessee. They stay connected until Knoxville, Tennessee.

★ Interstate 64 in Lexington, Kentucky. They stay connected for 6 miles to the east of Lexington.

★ Interstate 71 in Walton, Kentucky. They stay connected until Cincinnati, Ohio.

★ Interstate 275 in Erlanger, Kentucky (loop around Cincinnati), and again in Sharonville, Ohio

★ Interstate 74 in Cincinnati

★ Interstate 675 in Miamisburg, Ohio (south of Dayton)

★ Interstate 70 in Vandalia, Ohio (near Dayton)

★ Interstate 80 / 90 (Ohio Turnpike) in Perrysburg, Ohio (near Toledo)

★ Interstate 475 in Toledo, Ohio

★ Interstate 280 in Toledo, Ohio

★ Interstate 275 in Newport, Michigan

★ Interstate 96 (Jeffries Freeway) in Detroit, Michigan

★ Interstate 375 in Detroit

★ Interstate 94 (Ford Freeway) in Detroit

★ Interstate 696 (Walter P. Reuther freeway) north of Detroit

★ Interstate 69 in Flint, Michigan

★ Interstate 475 in Flint

★ Interstate 675 in Saginaw, Michigan

Spur routes

★ Tampa, Florida/St. Petersburg, Florida - I-175 (1.294 mi/2.08 km), I-275 (63.387 mi/102.01 km), I-375 (1.220 mi/1.96 km)

★ Macon, Georgia - I-475

★ Atlanta, Georgia - I-675

★ Spur to Nelson, Georgia, I-575

★ Knoxville, Tennessee - I-275

★ Cincinnati, Ohio - I-275

★ Dayton, Ohio - I-675

★ Toledo, Ohio - I-475

★ Detroit, Michigan - I-275, I-375

★ Flint, Michigan - I-475

★ Saginaw, Michigan - I-675

Lane configurations

===Michigan===
Main articles: Interstate 75 in Michigan#Lane Configurations, Interstate 75 in Michigan--Lane Configurations

===Ohio===
Main articles: Interstate 75 in Ohio#Lane Configurations, Interstate 75 in Ohio--Lane Configurations

===Kentucky===
Main articles: Interstate 75 in Kentucky#Lane Configurations, Interstate 75 in Kentucky--Lane Configurations

===Tennessee===
Main articles: Interstate 75 in Tennessee#Lane Configurations, Interstate 75 in Tennessee--Lane Configurations

===Georgia===
Main articles: Interstate 75 in Georgia#Lane Configurations, Interstate 75 in Georgia--Lane Configurations

===Florida===
Main articles: Interstate 75 in Florida#Lane Configurations, Interstate 75 in Florida--Lane Configurations

Notes

===Florida===
Main articles: Interstate 75 in Florida

Georgia

Main articles: Interstate 75 in Georgia

Tennessee

Main articles: Interstate 75 in Tennessee

=== Ohio/Northern Kentucky===
In the Cincinnati, Ohio Northern Kentucky area, I-75 runs together with I-71, from approximately 20 miles south of Cincinnati, over the Brent Spence Bridge across the Ohio River, splitting from I-71 immediately after entering Cincinnati, Ohio. In the Cincinnati area, I-75 is also known as the Mill Creek Expressway. Part of it runs in the old right-of-way of the Miami and Erie Canal.
===Michigan===
Main articles: Interstate 75 in Michigan

See also

★ Detroit-Toledo Expressway

★ G. Mennen Williams Freeway

★ Fenton-Clio Expressway

★ Mackinac Bridge

★ U.S. Route 2

★ Brent Spence Bridge

References

Sources

★ 2005 Rand McNally Road Atlas

★ FDOT GIS data and pavement management reports

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External links

★ Interstate 75 at Michigan Highways

★ Interstate 75 on Cincinnati-Transit.net