There are some quirky spots in Michigan’s highway system, but maybe none more so than the spot in the Leelanau Peninsula where state highway M-22 goes south in both directions. In the village of Northport where M-201 ends at M-22, drivers coming south on M-201 are confronted with the choice of going south on M-22 or going south on M-22.
Other than being at the nexus of the universe, how could a highway go in the same direction in both ways?
It’s due to the peninsular make up of the highway. M-22 starts near Lake Michigan at US-31 north of Manistee and continues in that direction along the lakeshore until it reaches the tip of the Leelanau Peninsula and turns back south to run along Grand Traverse Bay into Traverse City where it ends back at US-31…