State Trunk Highway 88 (often called Highway 88, STH-88 or WIS 88) 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
Buffalo County, Wisconsin
Buffalo County is a county located in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 13,317. Its county seat is Alma. The county was created in 1853 and organized the following year.
History
Buffalo County, founded in ...
, that runs from
WIS 35 north of
Fountain City to
WIS 37 south of
Mondovi.
Route description
WIS 88 begins at a
T intersection
A three-way junction (or three-way intersection) is a type of road intersection with three arms. A Y junction (or Y intersection) generally has three arms of equal size coming at an acute or obtuse angle to each other; while a T junction (or T ...
with WIS 35 in the
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have ...
of
Czechville, northwest of Fountain City and southeast of
Cochrane Cochrane may refer to:
Places Australia
*Cochrane railway station, Sydney, a railway station on the closed Ropes Creek railway line
Canada
* Cochrane, Alberta
* Cochrane Lake, Alberta
* Cochrane District, Ontario
** Cochrane, Ontario, a town wit ...
. It heads north on a curving route and passes through the communities of
Cream
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and
Praag. The highway then turns northwest before curving back north into
Gilmanton. WIS 88 enters Gilmanton from the west and meets the western terminus of
Wisconsin Highway 121
State Trunk Highway 121 (often called Highway 121, STH-121 or WIS 121) is a state highway in Buffalo, Trempealeau, and Jackson counties in the west-central area of the US state of Wisconsin that runs east–west from Gilmanton to near Alma C ...
before turning north. It meets the eastern terminus of Rustic Road 1 and heads north out of Gilmanton. The highway crosses the
Buffalo River before terminating at WIS 37 south of Mondovi.
Major intersections
See also
*
References
External links
*{{commons category-inline, Wisconsin Highway 88
088
Transportation in Buffalo County, Wisconsin