U.S. Highway 23

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U.S. Highway 23

U.S. Highway 23 is a long north-south U.S. highway between Mackinaw City, Michigan and Jacksonville, Florida. It is an original route (1926) which originally reached only so far south as Portsmouth, Ohio and has since been extended. The designation is more intact than that of many other routes in the north-central and mid-Atlantic states, at least for now.

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Florida

US 23 uses the following unsigned state roads:

Except in Jacksonville, US 23 is concurrent with US 1 south of Alma, Georgia.

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Intersections with other U.S. and Interstate Highways

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History

US 23 was extended into Florida along US 1 in 1951. When the 20th Street Expressway was built around downtown Jacksonville, US 1 was moved but US 23 remained. It has never changed its route in Florida, though at one time it was planned to extend south, maybe to Fort Myers via US 17, SR 19, SR 33, US 98, US 17, and SR 31.

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Georgia

Enter from Florida concurrent with US 1 and US 301 at

Though US 23 roughly parallels Interstate 75 throughout much of Georgia, and the two routes come within a few miles in Atlanta, US 23 does not intersect with I-75 in Georgia. The two do not intersect until many miles to the north, in Perrysburg, Ohio (near Toledo).

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North Carolina

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Tennessee

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Virginia

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Kentucky

US 23 passes through the following cities and counties:


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Ohio

  • US-23 crosses the Ohio River from Kentucky and enters Portsmouth.
  • US-23 goes through the towns of Lucasville, Waverly, Piketon, Chillicothe, and Circleville, before reaching Columbus.
  • US-23 mostly follows High Street in Columbus, which was the original route. However, it now bypasses the central business district and north Columbus neighborhoods by following the one-way pair 4th Street (northbound) and 3rd/Summit Street (southbound) between the downtown area and Hudson Street, and Indianola Avenue north before returning to its original course on High Street at Morse Road.
  • US-23 follows High Street northbound from Columbus, going through the towns of Worthington and Delaware.
  • North of Delaware, US-23 becomes a 4-lane divided highway before passing through Waldo, Marion, and Upper Sandusky.
  • US-23 coincides with divided Ohio State Highway 15, until it takes a different route at the Carey exit. SR-15 continues on to Findlay, and is designed to allow most traffic to bypass the northern stretch of US-23 by offering a fast connection to Interstate 75.
  • US-23 continues north through Carey, Fostoria, and Woodville.
  • Atter Woodville, US-23 intersects with US-20, where it has a coincidental route for several miles.
  • US-23 then joins I-75 near Perrysburg, then follows I-475 around the west side of Toledo, passing through Sylvania before entering Michigan.

Note that US-23/I-475 has no direct interchange with the Ohio Turnpike (I-80 and I-90). One must (in 2004) use either surface routes in Holland, Maumee, or I-75 to get access to or from the turnpike.

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Michigan

US-23 enters Michigan on a freeway north of Toledo, Ohio, concurrent with US-223; it is a more direct route than I-75, providing a bypass around Detroit. US-23 is freeway past Dundee, Milan, Ann Arbor (junction I-94 and M-14), Brighton (junction I-96) and Fenton. The freeway portion between I-475 near Toledo, OH and Flint has many substandard bridge clearances (in Interstate standards teminology) albeit the bypassing of I-75 in the Metro Detroit area.

Just south of Flint, US-23 joins I-75, staying with it past Saginaw and Bay City before splitting at Standish; M-13 provides a number for the old route. From Standish to US-23's north end at Mackinaw City, US-23 follows the shoreline of Saginaw Bay and Lake Huron, serving such lakeside communities as East Tawas, Michigan, Alpena, Michigan, Rogers City, Michigan and Cheboygan, Michigan. I-75 is a much more direct route for long-distance travel between Standish and Mackinaw City.

In 2004, US-23 between Standish and Mackinaw City was designated as the Sunrise Side Coastal Highway.

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Related U.S. Highways

US 123 US 223

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Trivia

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See also

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External links


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