State Trunk Highway 79 (often called Highway 79, STH-79 or WIS 79) 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
Dunn County,
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, that runs from
U.S. Route 12
U.S. Route 12 (US 12) is an east–west United States Numbered Highways, United States highway, running from Aberdeen, Washington, to Detroit, Detroit, Michigan, for almost . The highway has mostly been superseded by Interstate 90 (I-90) an ...
northwest of the city of
Menomonie north to
Wisconsin Highway 64
State Trunk Highway 64 (WIS 64) is a highway in Wisconsin, which runs from the St. Croix Crossing bridge as a continuation of Minnesota State Highway 36 (MN 36) near Stillwater, Minnesota, and continues east to its eastern terminus i ...
in
Connorsville. WIS 79 is maintained by the
Wisconsin Department of Transportation
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) is a governmental agency of the U.S. state of Wisconsin responsible for planning, building and maintaining the state's highways. It is also responsible for planning transportation in the state ...
.
Route description
WIS 79 begins at an intersection with US 12 in the
Town of Menomonie, northwest of the city of Menomonie. From here, the highway heads north across a
Union Pacific Railroad
The Union Pacific Railroad , legally Union Pacific Railroad Company and often called simply Union Pacific, is a freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Paci ...
line and passes through farmland. The route continues north into the
Town of Sherman, where it intersects County Highway J. After crossing into the
Town of Stanton, WIS 79 enters the village of
Boyceville. The highway passes the
Boyceville Municipal Airport
Boyceville Municipal Airport, is a village owned public use airport located in the central business district of Boyceville, Wisconsin, a village in Dunn County, Wisconsin, United States. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA ...
before intersecting
WIS 170; it follows this highway west for before turning northward. WIS 79 crosses a
Canadian National Railway
The Canadian National Railway Company (french: Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada) is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States.
CN i ...
line and
Tiffany Creek before leaving Boyceville and entering the
Town of Tiffany. In Tiffany, the route intersects County Highway N before crossing the
South Fork Hay River, after which it roughly follows the river northwest. After meeting County Highway O and crossing into the
Town of New Haven, WIS 79 enters the community of Connorsville, where it terminates at WIS 64; the road continues northward as County Highway K.
Major intersections
See also
*
References
External links
*{{commons category-inline, Wisconsin Highway 79
079 79 may refer to:
* 79 (number)
* one of the years 79 BC, AD 79, 1979, 2079
* ''79 A.D.'', a 1962 historical epic film
* Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79, a catastrophic volcanic eruption in Italy
See also
*
* List of highways numbered
{{Num ...
Transportation in Dunn County, Wisconsin