U.S. 151 North - Fond du Lac

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U.S. 151 North
The final exit of the freeway portion of U.S. 151 lies one mile ahead with Hickory Street. Hickory Street serves a large industrial park north of U.S. 151 and south of nearby Interstate 41. 02/29/16
Northbound U.S. 151 reaches the diamond interchange with Hickory Street. 02/29/16
The Speed limit reduces to 55 MPH as U.S. 151 transitions to an at-grade expressway. 02/29/16
Upcoming Wis 175 parallels I-41 and follows old U.S. 41 south toward Milwaukee. Main Street extends the road north to Downtown Fond du Lac as the former alignment of U.S. 41 and later U.S. 41 Business. 02/29/16
Right in and right out connections join the U.S. 151 expressway with the north end of STH-175. Wis 175 south comprises a local route to Byron. 02/29/16
Drivers along U.S. 151 south pass under the Main Street / Wis 175 overpass just ahead of the diamond interchange with Interstate 41 [U.S. 41]. 02/29/16
Interstate 41 runs south from Fond du Lac to Milwaukee. An upgrade to a system interchange with free flowing ramps will eventually replace the current exchange between U.S. 151 and the freeway. 02/29/16
Heading north, I-41 encircles the western side of Fond du Lac to North Fond du Lac. The freeway continues north to Appleton and Green Bay. 02/29/16
U.S. 151 passes through the county seats of Calumet and Manitowoc Counties over the next 53 miles. 02/29/16
Northbound U.S. 151 at the intersection with Martin Road. This is one of many J turn intersections installed after a series of crashes along the bypass. 02/29/16
County V acts as a "short cut" to U.S. 45 between Fond Du Lac and Kewaskum. 02/29/16
A new interchange for U.S. 151 and County V opened just east of their former jughandle intersection in Fall 2016. 02/29/16
U.S. 151 north previously met U.S. 45 with a right in and right out connections. The US highway exits Downtown Fond du Lac via 6th Street and Fond du Lac Avenue southeast to the bypass. 02/29/16
The jug handle ramps with U.S. 45 were removed once the County V interchange opened. 02/29/16
U.S. 45 is a minor highway until it reaches Kewaskum, where it expands to four lanes and then a freeway at West Bend. 02/29/16
U.S. 151 curves northward to parallel CTH-K just outside the Fond du Lac city limits. 02/29/16
County T (4th Street) ventures east from Fond du Lac to Dotyville. An overpass was built for the trunk highway due to high crash volumes at the former intersection. 02/29/16
STH-23 (Johnson Street) travels across Fond du Lac to join Interstate 41 and U.S. 151 with Downtown. Through traffic on Wis 23 uses I-41 and US 151 to bypass the city until the approaching exit, where it rejoins the trunk highway. 02/29/16
Wis 23 comprises a two lane route east until Plymouth, where it becomes an expressway en route to Sheboygan. A federal judge halted construction of the remaining stretch that was proposed to be an expressway. 02/29/16
A pair of Expressway ends signs signal the conclusion of the four lane stretch of U.S. 151. 02/29/16
Ducharme Parkway stems west from U.S. 151 prior to the lane drop for the University of Wisconsin-Fond du Lac. U.S. 151 is at least four lanes wide from Cedar Rapids, Iowa until this point. 02/29/16
Now with two lanes, U.S. 151 nears the intersection with County K. 02/29/16
CTH-K north links the bypass with old U.S. 151 (CTH-WH) at nearby Taycheedah. 02/29/16
Winnebago Drive leads County WH northeast form Taycheedah to U.S. 151 at Peebles. County WH is former U.S. 151 to the west and old Wis 149 to the east. 02/29/16
County WH goes east to Kiel and Mount Calvary, an area known as the Holy Land. 02/29/16
Northbound U.S. 151 at the signalized intersection with CTH-WH. Winnebago Drive was realigned to meet the bypass at a right angle, leaving a portion of the old alignment in place as Peebles Court. 02/29/16
U.S. 151 curves east to rejoin its original alignment north from County WH to Pipe and Calumetville. 02/29/16


 


Photo Credits:

02/29/16 by Peter Johnson

Connect with:
Interstate 41 / U.S. 41
State Trunk Highway 23

Page Updated 04-08-2016.

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