State Trunk Highway 123 (often called Highway 123, STH-123 or WIS 123) is a former short
state highway
A state highway, state road, or state route (and the equivalent provincial highway, provincial road, or provincial route) is usually a road that is either ''numbered'' or ''maintained'' by a sub-national state or province. A road numbered by a ...
in the
U.S. state
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its sover ...
of
Wisconsin
Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake M ...
. It ran north–south in south central Wisconsin from the entrance to
Devil's Lake State Park to
Baraboo
Baraboo is a city in the Midwest and the county seat of Sauk County, Wisconsin, United States. The largest city in the county, Baraboo is the principal city of the Baraboo Micropolitan Statistical Area. Its 2020 population was 12,556. It is situ ...
. It was phased out in June 2016 and turned over to local jurisdictions and County DL was extended.
Route description
Starting at the entrance of Devil's Lake State Park, WIS 123 briefly traveled northeastward. Then, after it began to travel northward, it intersected WIS 159 (now WIS 136). It continued to travel northward towards downtown Baraboo via present-day CTH-DL, Walnut Street, and Parkway. Then, it began to run concurrently with Bus. US 12 for the rest of the route. After that, they ran along South Boulevard for a short distance. After crossing above the Baraboo River, they began to run concurrently with WIS 113. The three then continued north as Broadway before all but Bus. US 12 ended at WIS 33.
History
In 1919, WIS 123 was established to travel from Devil's Lake State Park to WIS 12 (now Bus. US 12) in Baraboo. In 1936, WIS 123 was extended north to WIS 33 via a former portion of US 12. This was done in response to US 12 being moved westward onto a 1936-era bypass.
Up until 2016, no significant changes had occurred. Then, in April 2016, WIS 123 began to be in the process of refurbishment. The route was later decommissioned in June 2016 as part of the project. Today, the former route outside of Baraboo was then superseded by CTH-DL.
Major intersections
See also
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References
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123 123 may refer to:
* The first three positive Arabic numerals
* 123 (number), the natural number following 122 and preceding 124
* AD 123, a year of the Julian calendar, in the second century AD
* 123 BC, a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar
En ...
Transportation in Sauk County, Wisconsin