M-221 is a short
state trunkline highway in the
Upper Peninsula
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(UP) of the US state of
Michigan
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that connects
M-28 with the community of
Brimley and
Brimley State Park
Brimley State Park is a public recreation area covering on the shore of Whitefish Bay at the far eastern end of Lake Superior in the U.S. state of Michigan
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. The highway was originally part of M-28 until the 1940s when it was briefly a local road. It has been a state highway again since it was designated as M-221 in 1945.
Route description
M-221 runs for north from M-28 into the unincorporated community of Brimley in
Superior Township. The highway passes through rural fields and woods until it enters downtown. At the corner of Main Street and Lakeshore Drive, the signed portion of M-221 ends, but state maintenance continues on Lakeshore Drive across the
Waiska River. The total length of the highway, including the unsigned segment, is .
Michigan Department of Transportation
The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) is a constitutional government principal department of the US state of Michigan. The primary purpose of MDOT is to maintain the Michigan State Trunkline Highway System which includes all Interstat ...
(MDOT) like other state highways in Michigan. As a part of these maintenance responsibilities, the department tracks the volume of traffic that uses the roadways under its jurisdiction. These volumes are expressed using a metric called annual average daily traffic
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, which is a statistical calculation of the average daily number of vehicles on a segment of roadway. MDOT's surveys in 2009 showed that the traffic levels along M-221 were 2,940 vehicles daily north of the junction with 7½ Mile Road and 1,476 vehicles per day south of the intersection; along the whole highway, 26 trucks were recorded in the survey.
History
M-221 was part of the original M-25 M25 or M-25 may be:
Aerospace
* M-25 Dromader Mikro, a variant of the Polish PZL-Mielec M-18 Dromader agricultural aircraft
* Cors-Air M25Y Black Devil, an Italian aircraft engine
* Shvetsov M-25, an aircraft radial engine produced in the Soviet ...
that ran through the eastern UP in 1919. This specific segment of roadway ran north into Brimley and turned east onto 6 Mile Road to connect with US Highway 2 (now H-63/ Mackinac Trail)
Major intersections
See also
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References
External links
M-221
at Michigan Highways
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Transportation in Chippewa County, Michigan