M-50 (MICHIGAN HIGHWAY)

'M-50' is a trunkline and state highway in Michigan. Although designated as an east-west highway, it is nearly a diagonal northwest-southeast route. It has its western terminus near Alto a few miles/kilometers east of greater Grand Rapids and its eastern terminus in downtown Monroe now at Telegraph Road as of October 1, 2006.
In the pre-Interstate era, M-50 served as most of the Grand-Rapids-Jackson route for those who sought to avoid greater Lansing. Except for segments in which it coincides with US 127 it is all undivided surface road. At one time, M-50 extended west all the way to Agnew on Lake Michigan in Ottawa County. In the 1960s, M-50 was truncated at Lowell and the segment west of Grand Rapids was redesignated as M-45.

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★ M-50 Endpoint Photos

★ Former M-50 Western Terminus (now M-45)

References

1. Michigan Highways: Highways 50 through 59 ''Christopher J. Bessert,'' URL accessed 6 Oct 2006
2. Michigan Highways: Highways 50 through 59 ''Christopher J. Bessert,'' URL accessed Sep 7 2006
3. M-50 jurisdictional transfer.''Patrick Allen.'' 5 October 2006.