US 41 changes time zones 4 times. Starts in eastern time in upper peninsula, then goes to central time not too long after, reenters eastern time in indiana before going back on central time, and finally reenters eastern time again in SE Tennessee.
I was born in Marquette in a hospital overlooking 41, and grew up running around on its northern half. In 1991 I decided to see what the other half looked like. I don't know why this road isn't as famous as Route 66. It is definitely my favorite road, hands down, even the parts that aren't so good. Here's a bit of trivia for road nerds: US 41 is a north-south highway that starts and ends going east-west. But that is not all. Back in the 1990's its southern end was in Miami Beach instead of its current ending in downtown Miami. This resulted in a short northbound concurrency with US 1 before crossing over to Miami Beach on the MacArthur Causeway and ending about a block from the Atlantic Ocean. Sometime around 2005 the Miami Beach extension was decommissioned; however there seems to be a dispute over the location of the actual southern end of US 41. Apparently AASHTO still has it on the books as Miami Beach while Florida says it is Miami and only signs it to the end of Southwest 8th Street. US 41 also does not fit the grid as logically it should end up in Mississippi or Louisiana, not Florida. I suspect some powerful Chicago folks with interests on Florida's west coast had something to do with that. Anyway, I could go on and on about this road. It's definitely different and that's one of the reasons I like it: it makes its own rules!
It’s a great one! The reason 66 gets all the run: 1) the cities it connects, 2) Steinbeck, 3) the number itself leading to the song, 4) the fact that it technically no longer exists
Some pretty natural scenery in the UP of Michigan and the cool skyline of downtown Chicago, along with some nice small town America on the road, US-41 seems like a pretty cool road! Great video Todd!!! 👍
When you get to US 41 South, could you shout out Ferrell's Hamburger in Hopkinsville, which is a few blocks south from 41 at Main and 10th St. (1001 Main St) It's a great little burger stand I used to go to as a kid when I visited my grandparents each summer.
@MeGatechfan99 It depends on the definition of ‘based’. They were born in Macon, but the Band was formed in Jacksonville. I have played this quiz game identifying musical acts based off of the state they’re from. The Allman Brothers Band is one such act from the Florida quiz. In fact, the very first act in said Florida quiz is actually Ray Charles; the ‘Georgia On My Mind’ singer’s childhood home was 40 miles east of Tallahassee. Admittedly, the playlist is inconsistent at times. Steve Miller is a Wisconsin act, but the Band was formed in San Francisco. Similarly, Boz Scaggs started out of DFW, but he’s on the playlist as an Ohio act (Canton)…
I've been up and down on Hwy. 41 all my life. Born in Terre Haute, lived my early years in Milwaukee, lived in Nashville in the late 70's, early 80's, back to Milwaukee (my mother couldn't live anywhere else), and since 1997, my home is Fond du Lac. I'll probably die here. Great trip!
A potential idea once the NFL theme is through: an Olympics theme! Paris ‘24 is coming up. It’ll be nice to see some lesser known venue sites, like Innsbruck, Grenoble, Chamonix, Lillehammer or Antwerp.
That was the reconstruction of Lake Shore Dr. back in the 90's, I believe ... fun times when northbound Lake Shore Dr used to wrap around the north side of the stadium to get back to the southbound lanes.
It's true! I always thought they pointed Wrigley the wrong way. If they put home plate at Clark and Waveland instead of Clark and Addison, it would be a view of downtown instead of that stupid building.
In regards to the US 41 and Indiana SR 63 phenomenon, there are two reasons for this. The first is since 41 and 63 touch on both ends, only one was needed to be four laned. SR 63 was chosen for two reasons: cost and because the US military wanted a section of four lane highway in front of the Newport chemical depot, which meant 63 was getting a section of four lane, regardless of the final choice. Ironically, this section of US 41 does have a couple of brief four lane sections on the North side of Terre Haute, as well as near the I-74 interchange during the concurrency with US 136, which I think you missed. Actually, now that I think about it, you didn't show the I-64 interchange either.
I-69 won't be using the US 41 bridges across the Ohio River, as they're both pretty old and narrow. It's going to get its own bridge a couple of miles upstream. It's already well within the planning stage, and will likely start construction in 2027.
Part of the Indiana section of US-41 was also featured in North by Northwest, as it’s where the famous plane scene takes place, as Roger Thornhill is trying to avoid getting run over by the plane.
That I-69 terminus is temporary as they plan to build a new Ohio River Crossing just to the east of the current US 41 for I-69. The southbound US 41 bridge will be removed following I-69's completion.
Best landmark on US 41 is the Portage Canal Lift Bridge in Michigan which connects Houghton and Hancock. Built in 1960, which is about the last year they used these bridge railings, the so-called R4 railings. Not up on my Michigan history how you got to the Keewenaw Peninsula (which is really an island) before that.
On 41 south, the I-64 slide needs to come before the Lloyd Expressway slide. I-64 intersects US 41 at an interchange 12 miles north of Evansville. The Lloyd Expressway intersects inside Evansville. I am an ex-Evansville resident. BTW, you have a great RUclips channel.
I worked in downtown Evanston for a couple years, like a 3 minute walk from the Davis El station before the company transferred me to Skokie. I liked it way more, taking the train to work was super easy.
To answer your question on Marinette to Green Bay, there are quite a few at grade intersections so that’s why I-41 doesn’t start until you hit the city. Looking forward to the WI-29 video.
My parents tell me when I was like 2 years old and I'd see a broken streetlight on a Chicago freeway, I'd cry and they'd have to promise me that my dad would go back there and fix it later lol. Then they'd have to take a different route when leaving town because otherwise I'd remember the streetlight.
From what I've seen on Google Earth Street View, as of 2013, there were still some old US 41 cutout shields posted on parts of old US 41 allignments in the UP part of Michigan.
Unlike Route 66, Route 41 is a special one that runs from Miami in the Atlantic all the way to the Keweenaw Peninsula on the shores of Lake Superior. Imagine what Route 41 looked like back in the old days like Route 66.
Back in the old days, US 41 was one of America's most important roads. Many drivers drive from Atlanta to Miami and back in the old summers when it takes plenty of hours and I think it was the busiest portion back then. Others fly from ATL to MIA or FLL and vice versa and others take a train instead.
@@CrystalClearWith8BE One of US 41's nicknames is the Dixie Bee Line. It was a shortcut designed to draw traffic away from the west (Chicago) branch of the Dixie Highway. Not sure of the exact route but I do know it ran from Terre Haute down to Evansville then to Henderson and then to Tennessee where it rejoined the Dixie Highway. The east branch of the Dixie Highway started in Michigan and roughly parallels I-75 south to Chattanooga where the two branches merged. So yes, 41 was a very important road indeed. I traveled it in the '90's and collected a lot of stories. There was a saying I heard when I was in Attica, Indiana that in Kentucky they taught the Four R's: Reading, Riting, Rithmatic, and Route 41 North because of all the Kentuckians that came north on that road to find jobs.
Since 476 is over by me and that's next, I'll throw a suggestion to show exit 115, which is the interchange between 81, 315 and 476. This interchange can be best described as an absolute clusterfuck and it's a true PennDOT masterclass. Honestly the entirety of PA 9/I 476 is a work of art but that particular interchange is the cream of the crop. It manages to make traffic awful on 81, 315 AND 476 at the same time. Especially since 476's existence between there and Clarks Summit is literally pointless because 81 is free and its faster.
@@ControlCityFreak Thanks you bunch! When you call out my name in the video, please say it was requested by "Apollo". You the man. Keep up the good work.
@@ryan225360yeah, the congestion on that stretch of 81 gets pretty bad rather frequently, sometimes to the point of total gridlock. Especially when construction is going on. I was extremely thankful that stretch of 476 existed.
I was going request you for Wis Hwy 29 because I got many scrap books of the history of Hwy 29 centered around the four expressway upgrades from 1987-2005
A little fun fact: WI-441 in Appleton forms a perfect freeway loop with I-41. Some in Wisconsin have been lobbying to get it signed as I-441, but it isn’t all the way up to interstate standard yet. There is a project in the works to rebuild the northern interchange with I-41 to interstate standard though!
Also Tom Petty did a song called US 41. And Patty Loveless did a song called Nothing But the Wheel that also mentions a Highway 41--it's about someone (a woman?) who is driving this road alone at night trying to escape something in her life. "And 41 goes on and on, and the lines go winding in the dawn" . . .
Why US 41 doesn't go directly from Menominee to Escanaba (Michigan 35) is because Michigan wanted to build a more direct route coming south from Marquette to Powers, but It never happened The T intersection in Powers has US 41 going East-West, and US 2 joining from the north...The concurrency enters Escanaba from the West
To answer the question why US 41 goes east and the four-laned Indiana SR 63 goes west towards Terre Haute is a crazy one. I have relatives that grew up in Clinton and a cousin that lives in Terre Haute. The story goes was when SR 63 was being constructed....first as a two-laned highway, then widened to a four-laned controlled access....the original intention was for US 41 to overlap with Indiana SR 63. But at the time, there was a local, powerful member of the Indiana legislature insisted that US 41 continue to follow its current path out of Terre Haute towards Rockville and eventually merge with Indiana SR63 further to the north. To date, that has never been changed. Plus the Feds can still pay for upkeep of the current US 41 from Terre Haute. That's why US 41 is more of a local road through Parke County, Indiana bypassing Vermillion County, Indiana. Here is something weird: My parents grew up in east central Illinois and moved south in the late 1950s. For decades, Dad's brother lived close to US 41 near Clinton, Indiana and we lived near US 41 in Macon, Ga.
When you do I-215/CR-215 in Las Vegas: I live on the east side of town, near Flamingo Rd. and Boulder Hwy. I'd like to see a bit of discussion of how inconvenient the SE part of the freeway is as a "ring road," such that I don't use 215 even if I'm headed, say, to someplace in the neighborhood of the 15/215 interchange. (I don't know that the loop will ever be completed on the east side, although a routing on the "wrong" side of Frenchman Mountain, through Lake Las Vegas, makes some sense.)
Oh, parts of Henderson definitely benefit from it. Also, people driving into town from Arizona, which may have been the builders' thought process. But it fails as a ring road; if I'm going to something at Town Square, in that 15/215 area, I take US-95 north to downtown and I-15 south to my destination. The point of ring roads is supposed to be a convenient way to AVOID downtown.
I'm familiar with this highway up in the UP and across Indiana. Just a few observations of my own: -Heading south from Cooper Harbor, they have the main control city as Houghton on more recent signage. I don't believe Marquette gets mentioned until you're in Houghton. -The monument where US 41 crosses the 45 degree parallel is south of Marinette, Wisconsin. I remember when that was still a two-lane highway and they were building the freeway alongside it. But the monument was definitely on the Wisconsin side. -I totally agree about Indiana 63 needing to be US 41. I believe historically US 41 always went through Attica and Rockville and Indiana 63 was a local highway roughly close to its current expressway alignment. Interestingly, at random interchanges along Indiana 63 the control cities are Evansville and Chicago! Indiana 63 goes nowhere close to either city. -On your southbound video you had the Lloyd Expressway in Evansville mentioned before I-64. The Lloyd is well south of I-64 and just a few miles north of the I-69 interchange. -You missed some good mileage signs heading north on US 41 in Indiana. Just north of I-64, they do list Chicago as a control city (280 miles or so I believe.) There's a few more occurrences of Chicago being mentioned on mileage signs up to the US 52 interchange south of Kentland. After Kentland it's just Hammond. I believe this is due to being in a different INDOT region (the Northwest Region.) They must have a thing with signing Hammond, it should totally be Chicago though.
D'oh! I must have gotten my pictures out of order for Lloyd/64. This vid was like 170 slides and most of them are around 80, so it was a bit tougher to keep track of.
@td88 I do think Hancock/Houghton is better than Marquette at the very beginning; it is one of the ‘major’ UP communities. As for Hammond vs Chicago, I actually think Hammond is better. Looking at Google Maps, cutting over to IL 394 outside of Chicago Heights from Cedar Lake is about 5 minutes faster than going through Schererville. This was checked at about 8:30 PM CST, so it may even faster during the daytime.
I love driving US 41 south out of Copper Harbor. It's 10 miles of twisty-turny-curvey double yellow highway. A full ten miles of double yellow. Very fun to drive it when there's no traffic.
Great video! Ive been on most of US 41 in the Chicagoland area and some of the central Indiana portion. Did you miss where US 40 & 41 intersect in Terre Haute, I know that is a busy area with several roads crossing each other. Your videos always make me want to take a road trip. Keep it up!
@@ControlCityFreak It's been a while since I've traveled 41 but my understanding is that US 40 was moved onto I-70 and is no longer signed through Terre Haute.
I really think I-41 should have been signed as an extension of I-57 instead. Signing an interstate of the same number on an already existing US Highway makes no sense. It should have been I-57. And I would also extend I-43 past its Green Bay terminus into the freeway section of US-41/141 towards the Michigan border at Marinette. Iron Mountain is a good control city for US-141, as it is fairly big by UP standards.
7:40 You're already on the Edens Expressway at that point. 16:34 The bridges are not the state line however. The state line, due to a shift in the Ohio River, is on dry land north of the bridge.
@brandongorte4746 I’m not from the area, but isn’t the river shift because of a massive earthquake from 200 years ago? That part of the country has very weird geographical oddities; Kaskaskia, Illinois is actually WEST of the Mississippi River, and there’s a portion of Kentucky only accessible from Tennessee…
@@tylermarchand2996 No, the New Madrid epicenter is a hundred miles or more away. It's just that the branch of the Ohio that formed the island just naturally silted up. Kaskaskia is the same thing - rivers just sometimes simply silt up, or outright move during floods. The 1812 earthquakes only really moved things within a few dozen miles of New Madrid. Heck, most of the borders weren't even surveyed at the time of the earthquakes.
@thomasrinschler6783 Thanks for the clarification. Looking more into the history of those earthquakes, they likely created another weird geographical anomaly; the portion of Kentucky only accessible from Tennessee. It actually looks like it is right on the epicenter!
@davidfreesefan23 Regardless, Washington is probably the most perfect choice headed east on U.S. 50. Cincinnati is the closest major city eastbound, but beforehand local hubs like Bedford, Seymour and North Vernon need to be listed as controls. One of those three is actually the hometown of heartland rocker John Cougar Mellencamp!
Unfortunately, I have had to travel on 41 from Chicago to Terre Haute many times recently it is one of the most desolate depressing roads I’ve ever been on. Make sure you don’t want to eat, don’t have to pee, and don’t want to see anything interesting if you travel it. On top of that it’s extremely dangerous because it has unlimited access and many coal and gravel trucks are on there.
I remember that road. I actually had family and was born in Sullivan, around 26 miles south of Terre Haute on US-41. My question, why US-41 from Chicago to Terre Haute? I take Indiana 63 at Carbondale and that takes me straight into Terre Haute on a shorter route. Still desolate, though.
@@ki5aok Because I was traveling from Chicago to Terre Haute and according to Google maps that was the shortest way. I finally could not take it any more and popped over to I 57 and fortunately my days of driving to Terre Haute are over.
The southern half of 41 should be done soon, as it also has some interesting segments. It also goes by two NFL stadiums, and the segment between Chattanooga and Nashville is very winding. On a separate note, one of my favorite video game series is the Hitman franchise, and one of the games (the black sheep of the series) has roughly half of it take place in Chicago. I question the seasonal weather displayed in the gameplay: extremely sunny days, cloudy late afternoons, and endless nighttime thunderstorms (heavy rain). One level takes place during Chinese New Year, which the game wiki says occurs in early/mid February. Maybe I’m generalizing, but shouldn’t Chicago be covered in ice and snow at this time?
Yeah it’s generally pretty snowy in February. I always meant to play that game just for the Chicago-ness. Would love to see GTA include Chicago in some way but I know it’ll never happen.
When you DO do the southern half of 41, make sure you mention Monteagle Mountain near Chattanooga. It may not be tall (only 1800 feet) but it is sure infamous among truckers. Also, the Highlander Folk School used to be on 41 near Tracy City, Tennessee. Quite the history there.
For I-495 in MA I'm requesting exit 63B for US 20 west for my hometown of Northborough, which also happens to be the hometown of the 1976 AL Rookie of the Year, the late Mark "The Bird" Fidrych.
You'll find Northborough and the other "boroughs" such as neighboring Marlborough, Boxborough and of course Foxborough sometimes spelled without the "ugh" at the end. In each case the longer spelling is the official version but the shorter spelling often gets used more often, even on highway signs. As a native of Massachusetts I have other anecdotes I can share about and around 495, which I will share over the course of the next few weeks over on the community tab off the original post.
@@silvercoulterIt's not replace or overlap by interstates, it mostly parallels them all the to Miami south of Evansville, I 69, I 169 in Kentucky and I 24 in to Chattanooga,Tennessee and then I 75 all the way to Miami.
I hate to break THIS to you, Sonic (actually I'm lying; I don't hate this at all) ..... but Jean Baptiste Point DuSable was one of the founders of the city of Chicago. that is a VALID reason (the Chicago City Council made the move in June 2021).
I’m not a fan of renaming in general. It more often than not just erases local history. One example I’m not really happy with is the renaming of my state’s biggest airport in honor of the man who opened the floodgates for nuking the filibuster. The original name paid homage to a staunch anti-communist who was instrumental in the development of aviation in Nevada. At least the ring road in my hometown still maintains his name, but I’ll be unhappy if it suffers the same fate. I’m confident this is a sentiment that is far from rare in this RUclips community; every time we’re around New York, there’s always at least one comment about the bridge renamed after the father of the disgraced “Governor of America”…
I had actually prepared for the ENTIRE highway, so I’ll only put in the parts covered here (Indiana to Michigan) Henderson-Evansville-Fort Branch-Princeton-Patoka-Vincennes-Sullivan-Shelburn-Farmersburg-Terre Haute-Rockville-Attica-Kentland-Morocco-Lake Village-Lowell-Cedar Lake-St. John-Schererville-Highland-Hammond-Chicago Hammond-Chicago-Lincolnwood-Skokie-Wilmette-(Chicago) Highland Park (Milwaukee)-Lake Forest-North Chicago-Gurnee-Wadsworth-Milwaukee (Chicago) Wadsworth-Milwaukee-Fond du Lac-Oshkosh-Appleton-Green Bay-Oconto-Peshtigo-Marinette-Menominee Marinette-Menominee-Escanaba-Gladstone-Harvey-Marquette-Ishpeming-Houghton-Hancock-Calumet-Copper Harbor My list is quite longer because this is very much a very local road. North of Green Bay is the only segment without a more convenient alternative, so these locations with at least one stop light (as seen at 18x zoom in Google Maps). Even with plenty of controls in my list, there are endless amounts of minuscule towns to serve as top and middle lines in a three line mileage sign. I don’t have Waukegan on here because U.S. 41 only barely clips into the southwest corner (Gurnee is the next best choice in Lake County, also being home to Six Flags Great America. The other big head scratcher for me is “U.S. 41 Morganfield”, as 41 goes nowhere near this region of the Western Coalfields (U.S. 60 Morganfield would be eons better). And great choice of words regarding the 45th parallel as *approximately* halfway to the North Pole; people are often mistaken in the belief that Earth is sphere.
US 41 changes time zones 4 times. Starts in eastern time in upper peninsula, then goes to central time not too long after, reenters eastern time in indiana before going back on central time, and finally reenters eastern time again in SE Tennessee.
@zimx1096 I think that counts as four ‘changes’…
That's four changes not time zones, it only crossed two zones
Fun fact about Hancock, MI : I believe it's the only town in the US to have its street signs at intersections in two languages : English & Finnish.
I was born in Marquette in a hospital overlooking 41, and grew up running around on its northern half. In 1991 I decided to see what the other half looked like. I don't know why this road isn't as famous as Route 66. It is definitely my favorite road, hands down, even the parts that aren't so good.
Here's a bit of trivia for road nerds: US 41 is a north-south highway that starts and ends going east-west. But that is not all. Back in the 1990's its southern end was in Miami Beach instead of its current ending in downtown Miami. This resulted in a short northbound concurrency with US 1 before crossing over to Miami Beach on the MacArthur Causeway and ending about a block from the Atlantic Ocean. Sometime around 2005 the Miami Beach extension was decommissioned; however there seems to be a dispute over the location of the actual southern end of US 41. Apparently AASHTO still has it on the books as Miami Beach while Florida says it is Miami and only signs it to the end of Southwest 8th Street. US 41 also does not fit the grid as logically it should end up in Mississippi or Louisiana, not Florida. I suspect some powerful Chicago folks with interests on Florida's west coast had something to do with that. Anyway, I could go on and on about this road. It's definitely different and that's one of the reasons I like it: it makes its own rules!
It’s a great one! The reason 66 gets all the run: 1) the cities it connects, 2) Steinbeck, 3) the number itself leading to the song, 4) the fact that it technically no longer exists
Do South 41 in KY, TN, and GA
I still want to see US-6, US-11, US-15, and US-20
Some pretty natural scenery in the UP of Michigan and the cool skyline of downtown Chicago, along with some nice small town America on the road, US-41 seems like a pretty cool road! Great video Todd!!! 👍
When you get to US 41 South, could you shout out Ferrell's Hamburger in Hopkinsville, which is a few blocks south from 41 at Main and 10th St. (1001 Main St) It's a great little burger stand I used to go to as a kid when I visited my grandparents each summer.
Thanks, you got it!
I always think of Ramblin' Man by the Allman Brothers when I think of this highway. :D
I was surprised he didn't throw a snippet of the song in the video
He probably will when he gets to Macon, Georgia where the Allman Bros were based.
@MeGatechfan99 It depends on the definition of ‘based’. They were born in Macon, but the Band was formed in Jacksonville.
I have played this quiz game identifying musical acts based off of the state they’re from. The Allman Brothers Band is one such act from the Florida quiz. In fact, the very first act in said Florida quiz is actually Ray Charles; the ‘Georgia On My Mind’ singer’s childhood home was 40 miles east of Tallahassee.
Admittedly, the playlist is inconsistent at times. Steve Miller is a Wisconsin act, but the Band was formed in San Francisco. Similarly, Boz Scaggs started out of DFW, but he’s on the playlist as an Ohio act (Canton)…
I've been up and down on Hwy. 41 all my life. Born in Terre Haute, lived my early years in Milwaukee, lived in Nashville in the late 70's, early 80's, back to Milwaukee (my mother couldn't live anywhere else), and since 1997, my home is Fond du Lac. I'll probably die here. Great trip!
Nice one!
A potential idea once the NFL theme is through: an Olympics theme! Paris ‘24 is coming up. It’ll be nice to see some lesser known venue sites, like Innsbruck, Grenoble, Chamonix, Lillehammer or Antwerp.
Hop Leaf is an awesome bar! Also cool seing 41 being done. Take it every day living in Waukegan
I was on 41 today. Inverness to Floral City FL
Nice!
@ControlCityFreak i am from Chicago, so to me, the entire 41 is "Lake Shore Drive"
i live near 41 and ive been anticipating this video
Historic 41 😢 Now 241 aka South 27th Street in Milwaukee
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I-41 used to split around Soldier Field, but construction was done to put both sides on the west part of the stadium.
US 41 but yes, true.
That was the reconstruction of Lake Shore Dr. back in the 90's, I believe ...
fun times when northbound Lake Shore Dr used to wrap around the north side of the stadium to get back to the southbound lanes.
"Building was so ugly I wanted to live in it so I wouldn't have to look at it"-- I laughed way too hard at that
It's true! I always thought they pointed Wrigley the wrong way. If they put home plate at Clark and Waveland instead of Clark and Addison, it would be a view of downtown instead of that stupid building.
CAN YOU PLEASE DO A MEXICAN HIGHWAY SIERES. FROM MX-1 TO MX-180
10:11 I live in the building on the far right!
US 41 goes through my hometown of Calhoun Ga
In regards to the US 41 and Indiana SR 63 phenomenon, there are two reasons for this. The first is since 41 and 63 touch on both ends, only one was needed to be four laned. SR 63 was chosen for two reasons: cost and because the US military wanted a section of four lane highway in front of the Newport chemical depot, which meant 63 was getting a section of four lane, regardless of the final choice. Ironically, this section of US 41 does have a couple of brief four lane sections on the North side of Terre Haute, as well as near the I-74 interchange during the concurrency with US 136, which I think you missed. Actually, now that I think about it, you didn't show the I-64 interchange either.
I-69 won't be using the US 41 bridges across the Ohio River, as they're both pretty old and narrow. It's going to get its own bridge a couple of miles upstream. It's already well within the planning stage, and will likely start construction in 2027.
Signing Indianapolis is for state road 67. Since i69 was built, you can now justify using 50/150 but definitely not when that sign was installed!
northbound I-69 will also have Indianapolis as its control city once the final segment connects to 465/74, which is on track for completion in 2025.
I’ve been up and down US 41 many a time…all the way up to Copper Harbor. I’m in the Chicago area and cross 41 daily.
Part of the Indiana section of US-41 was also featured in North by Northwest, as it’s where the famous plane scene takes place, as Roger Thornhill is trying to avoid getting run over by the plane.
Oh cool!
@@ControlCityFreak Actually that scene was filmed near Bakersfield, CA and used an Indiana 41 shield instead of US 41
@theresemalmberg955 though there isn’t an IN-41 highway though. Not sure why they didn’t just use the US-41 shield for that scene.
@@detroitotaku I don't know why either. It baffles me too.
2:38 - I'd think it's a h-o-f of cross country skiing here.
That I-69 terminus is temporary as they plan to build a new Ohio River Crossing just to the east of the current US 41 for I-69. The southbound US 41 bridge will be removed following I-69's completion.
I was in Chicago two months ago for Horror Con, and seeing the skyline coming back to Michigan was amazing!
"OO to A" Love it!
Best landmark on US 41 is the Portage Canal Lift Bridge in Michigan which connects Houghton and Hancock. Built in 1960, which is about the last year they used these bridge railings, the so-called R4 railings. Not up on my Michigan history how you got to the Keewenaw Peninsula (which is really an island) before that.
On 41 south, the I-64 slide needs to come before the Lloyd Expressway slide. I-64 intersects US 41 at an interchange 12 miles north of Evansville. The Lloyd Expressway intersects inside Evansville. I am an ex-Evansville resident. BTW, you have a great RUclips channel.
Thanks! Yeah I thought I got it a bit shuffled down there.
Can you sometime do US 33
Lake Shore Drive.
Phenomenal section of road on the entire route.
18:16 - "TOLL ROAD" may be on a yellow sign somewhere else but here the road is named simply Indiana "Toll Road" .
10:40 ... the bears are playing the panthers the night this video was released... but you're not wrong, US41 does link the Chicago and GB NFL teams.
Yeah error on my part. I glanced at the schedule and must have just seen Pa___ers and somehow intuited Packers
Old Orchard Mall! It was the closest mall when I was at Northwestern. I've been there a couple times, too, in the early 2000's.
I worked in downtown Evanston for a couple years, like a 3 minute walk from the Davis El station before the company transferred me to Skokie. I liked it way more, taking the train to work was super easy.
To answer your question on Marinette to Green Bay, there are quite a few at grade intersections so that’s why I-41 doesn’t start until you hit the city.
Looking forward to the WI-29 video.
6:40 - Thanks for featuring the way toward a thrill-theme park.
... SixFlags Great America.
Love your videos i am definitely a highway street sign geek and street light geek . i am glad to see more people out there.
My parents tell me when I was like 2 years old and I'd see a broken streetlight on a Chicago freeway, I'd cry and they'd have to promise me that my dad would go back there and fix it later lol. Then they'd have to take a different route when leaving town because otherwise I'd remember the streetlight.
What do you think of the new street lights, I don't like them. They say its better for the environment but they have no Pizazz LOL @@ControlCityFreak
@@LARSEN234 Yeah the old ones look cooler but I get the reasoning on the new ones
Was on a small segment of 41 a few months ago. Seeing the concurrent I41 signage was funny after watching the aforementioned I41 video
Wisconsin signs most of their expressways (at grade intersections) and freeways at close to interstate standards.
From what I've seen on Google Earth Street View, as of 2013, there were still some old US 41 cutout shields posted on parts of old US 41 allignments in the UP part of Michigan.
Unlike Route 66, Route 41 is a special one that runs from Miami in the Atlantic all the way to the Keweenaw Peninsula on the shores of Lake Superior. Imagine what Route 41 looked like back in the old days like Route 66.
Would be cool!
Back in the old days, US 41 was one of America's most important roads. Many drivers drive from Atlanta to Miami and back in the old summers when it takes plenty of hours and I think it was the busiest portion back then. Others fly from ATL to MIA or FLL and vice versa and others take a train instead.
@@CrystalClearWith8BE One of US 41's nicknames is the Dixie Bee Line. It was a shortcut designed to draw traffic away from the west (Chicago) branch of the Dixie Highway. Not sure of the exact route but I do know it ran from Terre Haute down to Evansville then to Henderson and then to Tennessee where it rejoined the Dixie Highway. The east branch of the Dixie Highway started in Michigan and roughly parallels I-75 south to Chattanooga where the two branches merged. So yes, 41 was a very important road indeed. I traveled it in the '90's and collected a lot of stories. There was a saying I heard when I was in Attica, Indiana that in Kentucky they taught the Four R's: Reading, Riting, Rithmatic, and Route 41 North because of all the Kentuckians that came north on that road to find jobs.
Did you do I-11? You should do US 6
Yes 41 in the Evansville area is confusing! Just because of interstate 69.
I have been on it.
12:22 - Jean Shepherd was from Hammond Indiana.
Since 476 is over by me and that's next, I'll throw a suggestion to show exit 115, which is the interchange between 81, 315 and 476. This interchange can be best described as an absolute clusterfuck and it's a true PennDOT masterclass.
Honestly the entirety of PA 9/I 476 is a work of art but that particular interchange is the cream of the crop. It manages to make traffic awful on 81, 315 AND 476 at the same time. Especially since 476's existence between there and Clarks Summit is literally pointless because 81 is free and its faster.
I usually take 476 for that portion because there are fewer trucks and less traffic…
Thanks, you got it! Glad you got it in now, I plan to record that one this weekend so I can get yours in the first draft.
@@ControlCityFreak Thanks you bunch! When you call out my name in the video, please say it was requested by "Apollo". You the man. Keep up the good work.
@@ryan225360yeah, the congestion on that stretch of 81 gets pretty bad rather frequently, sometimes to the point of total gridlock. Especially when construction is going on. I was extremely thankful that stretch of 476 existed.
You got it!
I was going request you for Wis Hwy 29 because I got many scrap books of the history of Hwy 29 centered around the four expressway upgrades from 1987-2005
Coming soon!
A little fun fact: WI-441 in Appleton forms a perfect freeway loop with I-41. Some in Wisconsin have been lobbying to get it signed as I-441, but it isn’t all the way up to interstate standard yet. There is a project in the works to rebuild the northern interchange with I-41 to interstate standard though!
It's not I-41, it's US 41. Big difference.
@@denniscain7218 In Wisconsin, it’s both.
PLEASE COVER US 49
It is a interesting route to me
Having notifications on is great. So excited to see you cover this road!
It is Hancock & Marquette according to Google maps
When you get to the south portion of US 41 I have request in Brooksville Florida.
That’s the road that was mentioned in the Allman Brothers song!
Also Tom Petty did a song called US 41. And Patty Loveless did a song called Nothing But the Wheel that also mentions a Highway 41--it's about someone (a woman?) who is driving this road alone at night trying to escape something in her life. "And 41 goes on and on, and the lines go winding in the dawn" . . .
3:57 whenever you say Menominee all I can think of is that old song Mahna Mahna (aka the Da Do Do Da Do Do Do song from the Muppets) 😁
Just north of I-64, there is a mileage sign for Chicago along with Vincennes and Terre Haute.
Oh nice, sorry I missed that one, sounds cool
I took 41 up to the UP this year. I only made it as far as Marquette.
Never been to the UP, would definitely like to check it out.
Why US 41 doesn't go directly from Menominee to Escanaba (Michigan 35) is because Michigan wanted to build a more direct route coming south from Marquette to Powers, but It never happened
The T intersection in Powers has US 41 going East-West, and US 2 joining from the north...The concurrency enters Escanaba from the West
To answer the question why US 41 goes east and the four-laned Indiana SR 63 goes west towards Terre Haute is a crazy one. I have relatives that grew up in Clinton and a cousin that lives in Terre Haute. The story goes was when SR 63 was being constructed....first as a two-laned highway, then widened to a four-laned controlled access....the original intention was for US 41 to overlap with Indiana SR 63. But at the time, there was a local, powerful member of the Indiana legislature insisted that US 41 continue to follow its current path out of Terre Haute towards Rockville and eventually merge with Indiana SR63 further to the north. To date, that has never been changed. Plus the Feds can still pay for upkeep of the current US 41 from Terre Haute.
That's why US 41 is more of a local road through Parke County, Indiana bypassing Vermillion County, Indiana.
Here is something weird: My parents grew up in east central Illinois and moved south in the late 1950s. For decades, Dad's brother lived close to US 41 near Clinton, Indiana and we lived near US 41 in Macon, Ga.
Pretty weird. I figured it had to be some weirdo local politician.
Looks like US 41 starts in Yooper Country...
Any plans for covering the remainder of US41?
It'll happen but not sure when.
@@ControlCityFreak 'k thanks :)
Well now I'm sad knowing i missed going to Buckingham fountain seeing how close it was on Lake Shore Drive.
Next time! It's not going anywhere.
@@ControlCityFreak that's true, we'll be back next summer
When you do I-215/CR-215 in Las Vegas: I live on the east side of town, near Flamingo Rd. and Boulder Hwy. I'd like to see a bit of discussion of how inconvenient the SE part of the freeway is as a "ring road," such that I don't use 215 even if I'm headed, say, to someplace in the neighborhood of the 15/215 interchange. (I don't know that the loop will ever be completed on the east side, although a routing on the "wrong" side of Frenchman Mountain, through Lake Las Vegas, makes some sense.)
Yeah it just seems useful for Strip/Airport traffic headed to Henderson and US 93
Oh, parts of Henderson definitely benefit from it. Also, people driving into town from Arizona, which may have been the builders' thought process. But it fails as a ring road; if I'm going to something at Town Square, in that 15/215 area, I take US-95 north to downtown and I-15 south to my destination. The point of ring roads is supposed to be a convenient way to AVOID downtown.
The sparse land in Chicago used to be the US Steel pant.
Hey after you do us 41 can u do route 173 in Illinois
Great video as always Todd!
Thanks!
Menominee…do do, do do do! 😂
Best Muppets bit ever
The Bears play the Panthers tonight.
Yeah misread that, my mind automatically went to Packers.
I assume after I-215, he'll do US 1 North Part, because of the Patriots, I-275 fir the Bengals, and US 101 for Chargers
I remember exploring the northbound end of U.S 41 on google maps. Disappointing they never updated street view quality.
After you do all of it
I'm familiar with this highway up in the UP and across Indiana. Just a few observations of my own:
-Heading south from Cooper Harbor, they have the main control city as Houghton on more recent signage. I don't believe Marquette gets mentioned until you're in Houghton.
-The monument where US 41 crosses the 45 degree parallel is south of Marinette, Wisconsin. I remember when that was still a two-lane highway and they were building the freeway alongside it. But the monument was definitely on the Wisconsin side.
-I totally agree about Indiana 63 needing to be US 41. I believe historically US 41 always went through Attica and Rockville and Indiana 63 was a local highway roughly close to its current expressway alignment. Interestingly, at random interchanges along Indiana 63 the control cities are Evansville and Chicago! Indiana 63 goes nowhere close to either city.
-On your southbound video you had the Lloyd Expressway in Evansville mentioned before I-64. The Lloyd is well south of I-64 and just a few miles north of the I-69 interchange.
-You missed some good mileage signs heading north on US 41 in Indiana. Just north of I-64, they do list Chicago as a control city (280 miles or so I believe.) There's a few more occurrences of Chicago being mentioned on mileage signs up to the US 52 interchange south of Kentland. After Kentland it's just Hammond. I believe this is due to being in a different INDOT region (the Northwest Region.) They must have a thing with signing Hammond, it should totally be Chicago though.
D'oh! I must have gotten my pictures out of order for Lloyd/64. This vid was like 170 slides and most of them are around 80, so it was a bit tougher to keep track of.
@td88 I do think Hancock/Houghton is better than Marquette at the very beginning; it is one of the ‘major’ UP communities. As for Hammond vs Chicago, I actually think Hammond is better. Looking at Google Maps, cutting over to IL 394 outside of Chicago Heights from Cedar Lake is about 5 minutes faster than going through Schererville. This was checked at about 8:30 PM CST, so it may even faster during the daytime.
I love driving US 41 south out of Copper Harbor. It's 10 miles of twisty-turny-curvey double yellow highway. A full ten miles of double yellow. Very fun to drive it when there's no traffic.
hey control, freak freak, I just wanna know what are you going to do great Britain moterways
Not sure but will do something eventually.
@@ControlCityFreak ok
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Thank you!
Great video! Ive been on most of US 41 in the Chicagoland area and some of the central Indiana portion.
Did you miss where US 40 & 41 intersect in Terre Haute, I know that is a busy area with several roads crossing each other.
Your videos always make me want to take a road trip. Keep it up!
Thanks! Yeah missed 40, I got bogged down in Chicagoland detail so I didn't want to do too many slides in any other city.
@@ControlCityFreak It's been a while since I've traveled 41 but my understanding is that US 40 was moved onto I-70 and is no longer signed through Terre Haute.
I really think I-41 should have been signed as an extension of I-57 instead. Signing an interstate of the same number on an already existing US Highway makes no sense. It should have been I-57.
And I would also extend I-43 past its Green Bay terminus into the freeway section of US-41/141 towards the Michigan border at Marinette.
Iron Mountain is a good control city for US-141, as it is fairly big by UP standards.
7:40 You're already on the Edens Expressway at that point.
16:34 The bridges are not the state line however. The state line, due to a shift in the Ohio River, is on dry land north of the bridge.
@brandongorte4746 I’m not from the area, but isn’t the river shift because of a massive earthquake from 200 years ago? That part of the country has very weird geographical oddities; Kaskaskia, Illinois is actually WEST of the Mississippi River, and there’s a portion of Kentucky only accessible from Tennessee…
@@tylermarchand2996 No, the New Madrid epicenter is a hundred miles or more away. It's just that the branch of the Ohio that formed the island just naturally silted up. Kaskaskia is the same thing - rivers just sometimes simply silt up, or outright move during floods. The 1812 earthquakes only really moved things within a few dozen miles of New Madrid. Heck, most of the borders weren't even surveyed at the time of the earthquakes.
@thomasrinschler6783 Thanks for the clarification. Looking more into the history of those earthquakes, they likely created another weird geographical anomaly; the portion of Kentucky only accessible from Tennessee. It actually looks like it is right on the epicenter!
Another RUclipsr named RamblinMan41 has been doing some more in-depth videos about US 41, including covering some of the highways older alignments.
Isn't that the name of the band that did the song about highway 41?
@@midwestpanther98That was the Allman Brothers Band that you're thinking of.
They have a song called "Ramblin Man" that mentions US 41.
I was born in the backseat of a Greyhound bus Rollin' down Highway 41! Awesome name for a channel on that.
You should be a video about the longest road in the US. (us route 20)
I shall.
4:54 - I like Delaware route 141 .
6:53 - It's Harlem Ave. Not Harlem Rd.
7:30 - Crook County
10:19 - 10:26 - no mention of Trump Tower 😅
10:35 - The Spaceship!
The trump tower is absolutely not worth mentioning
At 14:59 - I assume there’s a Washington, Indiana, but if you follow US 50 east far enough, it will get you to Washington, DC!
Awesome!
@davidfreesefan23 Regardless, Washington is probably the most perfect choice headed east on U.S. 50. Cincinnati is the closest major city eastbound, but beforehand local hubs like Bedford, Seymour and North Vernon need to be listed as controls. One of those three is actually the hometown of heartland rocker John Cougar Mellencamp!
US 20 would be a cool video to do someday...
Will do sometime
Rumble yet?
Unfortunately, I have had to travel on 41 from Chicago to Terre Haute many times recently it is one of the most desolate depressing roads I’ve ever been on. Make sure you don’t want to eat, don’t have to pee, and don’t want to see anything interesting if you travel it. On top of that it’s extremely dangerous because it has unlimited access and many coal and gravel trucks are on there.
I remember that road. I actually had family and was born in Sullivan, around 26 miles south of Terre Haute on US-41. My question, why US-41 from Chicago to Terre Haute? I take Indiana 63 at Carbondale and that takes me straight into Terre Haute on a shorter route. Still desolate, though.
If you are lucky, you can see buffalo on the west side of 41 near Morocco, Indiana.
@@warreneckels4945 I know exactly what you are talking about but unfortunately I was not lucky.🥲
@@ki5aok Because I was traveling from Chicago to Terre Haute and according to Google maps that was the shortest way. I finally could not take it any more and popped over to I 57 and fortunately my days of driving to Terre Haute are over.
Go to the beef house on 63 and i74! That place is a great place to eat! And the wind farm near Earl Park is huge!
US Routes 6, 19, 62, 322, 422 would be neat to see :)
I’m releasing a video on US 62 NE tomorrow. Also, US 322 has been done by courtemanche437 if you haven’t already seen his videos for that Highway.
Better have something nice to say about Franklin Pa LOL@@SonicandHighwayDude401
@@dylanlowers5236 You can see for yourself. The video was posted earlier today. 😁
The southern half of 41 should be done soon, as it also has some interesting segments. It also goes by two NFL stadiums, and the segment between Chattanooga and Nashville is very winding.
On a separate note, one of my favorite video game series is the Hitman franchise, and one of the games (the black sheep of the series) has roughly half of it take place in Chicago. I question the seasonal weather displayed in the gameplay: extremely sunny days, cloudy late afternoons, and endless nighttime thunderstorms (heavy rain). One level takes place during Chinese New Year, which the game wiki says occurs in early/mid February. Maybe I’m generalizing, but shouldn’t Chicago be covered in ice and snow at this time?
Yeah it’s generally pretty snowy in February. I always meant to play that game just for the Chicago-ness. Would love to see GTA include Chicago in some way but I know it’ll never happen.
When you DO do the southern half of 41, make sure you mention Monteagle Mountain near Chattanooga. It may not be tall (only 1800 feet) but it is sure infamous among truckers. Also, the Highlander Folk School used to be on 41 near Tracy City, Tennessee. Quite the history there.
I wonder if US 41 will eventually be I 41 through Wisconsin??
Maybe an extension to Marinette/Menominee would be logical.
I don't see WISDOT doing that for I-41, like they did for I-39. and even with I-39, US51 runs as a freeway north for another 40 miles.
I thought it was Bears vs Panthers?
Yeah misread that, my mind automatically went to Packers.
For I-495 in MA I'm requesting exit 63B for US 20 west for my hometown of Northborough, which also happens to be the hometown of the 1976 AL Rookie of the Year, the late Mark "The Bird" Fidrych.
Thanks, you got it!
You'll find Northborough and the other "boroughs" such as neighboring Marlborough, Boxborough and of course Foxborough sometimes spelled without the "ugh" at the end. In each case the longer spelling is the official version but the shorter spelling often gets used more often, even on highway signs.
As a native of Massachusetts I have other anecdotes I can share about and around 495, which I will share over the course of the next few weeks over on the community tab off the original post.
Not us 41 through Miami or Atlanta?
Not for a while
Niceee you should do the southern half soon🔥🔥🔥🔥
Gonna be a while
@ControlCityFreak that's fine I'll wait. Funny I was just driving the narrow part of it in Atlanta. It can go up to 12 lanes surprisingly
It’s mostly overlapped and replaced by interstates. US 50 would be more interesting!
@silvercoulter not in Georgia. The route actually becomes a 6 lane arterial in metro Atlanta it's mind blowing everytime I use it
@@silvercoulterIt's not replace or overlap by interstates, it mostly parallels them all the to Miami south of Evansville, I 69, I 169 in Kentucky and I 24 in to Chattanooga,Tennessee and then I 75 all the way to Miami.
Is this 41 or 41a ?
41
I hate to break it to you but Lake Shore Drive was renamed to DuSable Lake Shore Drive. 😢
I don’t know why Chicago is renaming iconic Highways.
I hate to break THIS to you, Sonic (actually I'm lying; I don't hate this at all) .....
but Jean Baptiste Point DuSable was one of the founders of the city of Chicago. that is a VALID reason (the Chicago City Council made the move in June 2021).
@@dhinton1Well, then it’s a good thing. But I know locals or Road Geeks will always remember Lake Shore Drive. 😅
I’m not a fan of renaming in general. It more often than not just erases local history. One example I’m not really happy with is the renaming of my state’s biggest airport in honor of the man who opened the floodgates for nuking the filibuster. The original name paid homage to a staunch anti-communist who was instrumental in the development of aviation in Nevada.
At least the ring road in my hometown still maintains his name, but I’ll be unhappy if it suffers the same fate.
I’m confident this is a sentiment that is far from rare in this RUclips community; every time we’re around New York, there’s always at least one comment about the bridge renamed after the father of the disgraced “Governor of America”…
For your WIS 29 vid, Wausau is pronounced Wah-saw not Wah-so
I'm gonna watch like 40 Wausau related vids before I record, I know I got it well wrong on 39.
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I had actually prepared for the ENTIRE highway, so I’ll only put in the parts covered here (Indiana to Michigan)
Henderson-Evansville-Fort Branch-Princeton-Patoka-Vincennes-Sullivan-Shelburn-Farmersburg-Terre Haute-Rockville-Attica-Kentland-Morocco-Lake Village-Lowell-Cedar Lake-St. John-Schererville-Highland-Hammond-Chicago
Hammond-Chicago-Lincolnwood-Skokie-Wilmette-(Chicago) Highland Park (Milwaukee)-Lake Forest-North Chicago-Gurnee-Wadsworth-Milwaukee
(Chicago) Wadsworth-Milwaukee-Fond du Lac-Oshkosh-Appleton-Green Bay-Oconto-Peshtigo-Marinette-Menominee
Marinette-Menominee-Escanaba-Gladstone-Harvey-Marquette-Ishpeming-Houghton-Hancock-Calumet-Copper Harbor
My list is quite longer because this is very much a very local road. North of Green Bay is the only segment without a more convenient alternative, so these locations with at least one stop light (as seen at 18x zoom in Google Maps). Even with plenty of controls in my list, there are endless amounts of minuscule towns to serve as top and middle lines in a three line mileage sign.
I don’t have Waukegan on here because U.S. 41 only barely clips into the southwest corner (Gurnee is the next best choice in Lake County, also being home to Six Flags Great America. The other big head scratcher for me is “U.S. 41 Morganfield”, as 41 goes nowhere near this region of the Western Coalfields (U.S. 60 Morganfield would be eons better).
And great choice of words regarding the 45th parallel as *approximately* halfway to the North Pole; people are often mistaken in the belief that Earth is sphere.
Wow, that’s a ton of them! I think it has some long distance utility in Indiana, and would have more if it swapped numbers with 63.