Route description
M-157 begins at an intersection with M-55 east of Prudenville and Houghton Lake. The trunkline angles to the northwest before turning north near Ryan Lake. Serving as a short connector, the highway travels north through the Roscommon State Forest terminating just over a mile later at a junction with M-18. A newspaper article in 1972 describing the shortest highways in the state to "important places" listed M-157 as a "short-cut" between the two highways. The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) conducts surveys in 2008 that showed 496 vehicles per day, on average.History
M-157 was originally designated in 1931 as a connector route between M-55 and US 27 (present-day M-18). Just a year later, that version was decommissioned, and the road obliterated. A new alignment, the present-day routing of M-157, was then commissioned just to the east.Major intersections
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