State Trunk Highway 82 (often called Highway 82, STH-82 or WIS 82) is a
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
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 ...
, United States. It runs east–west in southwest and south central Wisconsin from the
Iowa
Iowa () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west. It is bordered by six states: Wisconsin to the northeast, Illinois to the ...
border near
Lansing, IA to
Oxford
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.
This highway is a low traffic highway for its entire length.
Route description
Highway 82 begins on the Wisconsin side of the Mississippi River near Lansing, Iowa. Its next junction with a highway is across the bridge at
Wisconsin Highway 35
State Trunk Highway 35 (STH-35, WIS 35) is a Wisconsin state highway running north–south across western Wisconsin. It is 412.15 miles in length, and is the longest state highway in Wisconsin. Portions of WIS 35 are part of the ...
. The highway then turns to the North, forming a short concurrency with State Highway 35. At
De Soto, Wisconsin
De Soto is a village mostly in Vernon County but also in Crawford County in Wisconsin. The population was 287 at the 2010 census. Of this, 179 were in living in Vernon County, and 108 were living in Crawford County. The downtown and business are ...
, the route turns away from the Mississippi River Basin, and heads Northeasterly in general.
The next settlement is
Viroqua
Viroqua is the county seat of Vernon County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 4,504 at the 2020 census. The city is in the town of Viroqua.
Etymology
The town was originally named “Farwell” after Leonard J. Farwell, second Gov ...
, where it forms a wrong-way concurrency with US Highway 14, US Highway 61, State Highway 27. This ends at the traffic light with Decker Street, where the road turns East, concurrent with
Wisconsin Highway 56. This concurrency ends approximately East of Viroqua. Highway 82 turns left, to proceed to
La Farge, while Highway 56 continues to Viola.
Major intersections
See also
*
References
External links
*{{commons category-inline, Wisconsin Highway 82
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Transportation in Crawford County, Wisconsin
Transportation in Vernon County, Wisconsin
Transportation in Juneau County, Wisconsin
Transportation in Adams County, Wisconsin
Transportation in Marquette County, Wisconsin