U.S. Route 151
The highway begins in Iowa on Interstate 80 in Williamsburg about 32 miles from Iowa City. He then runs to the north-east to Cedar Rapids, where the highway intersects with U.S. Highway 30. On the way to Dubuque, he touches the cities of Anamosa, Monticello and Cascade. In Dubuque, he then intersects with U.S. Highway 20, Highway crosses the border to Wisconsin where Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin border each other. He then runs to the Dodgeville. In Madison, he intersects with Interstate 90 in Fond du Lac he crosses then with U.S. Highway 41 He eventually ends at U.S. Highway 10 in Manitowoc. The highway is following roughly a north-eastern course.
Course
Iowa
U.S. Highway 151 has its starting point at the intersection of Interstate 80 in a somewhat remote part of Iowa, at Williamsburg, and Conroy. It then runs through the area around the Amana Colonies. The highway then meets U.S. Highway 30 and U.S. Highway 218 and leads on a bypass road around Cedar Rapids, while the Business Route 151 runs through the town. The highway then separates from the other two and continues in Dubuque direction as highway continues. On this 105 km long section of U.S. 151 crosses several major rivers, including Wapsipinicon River and Maquoketa River and then into the Driftless Area, where the highway merges into the environment of the Dubuque Regional Airport, about 11 km south of Dubuque on U.S. Highway 61. Among them are joined by 5 km south of the city to U.S. Highway 52 Together, these roads lead then to the White Street in Dubuque.
Dubuque -Madison
U.S. 151 crosses then together with U.S. 61, the Mississippi River into Wisconsin. After crossing the Dubuque - Wisconsin Bridge the route is 1.5 km due east and cuts through the bank chain before it turns north and leads to the western terminus of the Wisconsin Highway 11. Wisconsin Highway 35 and the Great River Road join at this junction with U.S. 151 north. The highway is expanded highway-like in this area. To the north, the route to the intersection with the Eagle Point Road, with settlements and farmland alternate. The Eagle Point Road opens out from the west. That concludes the motorway-like character of the street. The route heads northwest past Kiel. In Dickeyville U.S. 61, WIS 35 and the Great River Road, turn north and run into the village. U.S. 151 leads east past the thickness Ville and rises in a valley cut down northeast of where it runs less than two kilometers parallel to the Little Platte River before ascending on the other side of the valley again to the mountain ridge. U.S. 151 then approaches Platteville, where a nearly 10 -km-long section begins, which may be used only by motor vehicles. At the end of this section there is the junction with the Wisconsin Highway 126, which allows the access to Belmont. From then on U.S. Highway 151 leads north-eastwards, crossing the Cottage Inn Branch and performs several times down into smaller valleys, two of them before the bypass of Mineral Point and another two at the outlining of this City.
Wisconsin Highway 23 connects at the end of this bypass with U.S. 151 and shares the route to the first exit in Dodgeville. There is another short section of motorway, the 18 ends at the junction of U.S. Highway begins. U.S. 18 and U.S. 151 run thence eastward.
Behind Dodgeville, the route through an undulating landscape, in the fields and meadows interspersed with small wooded areas. The highway leads to Ridgeway and Barneveld over to Mount Horeb. At the intersection with Wisconsin Highway 78, another short highway- like portion, the City ends just south again, where he leads through residential areas begins. Levelling at-grade intersections and level crossings different alternate On the way until, at Verona the track is again expanded as a motorway. This section runs south past the town, leading to the four exits. Then the Freeway converts in a four-lane urban road, the Verona Road, which runs through Fitchburg up to Madison. After the West Beltline Highway crossing, U.S. 18 and U.S. 151 join and empty into the there also coextending U.S. Highways 12 and 14.
Madison Metropolitan Area
The four U.S. Highways have a common route, to Park Street for about five kilometers. There turn U.S. 14 to the south and U.S. 151 leads northward to the center Madison. U.S. 151 follows the South Park Street, runs west of Monona Bay and about 450 m on the West Washington Avenue to the northeast, only to lead to Proudlit Street and North Shore Drive to John Nolen Drive northward. The road passes under the Monona Terrace Convention Center and Downtown happened south and east. U.S. 151 follows then for three blocks of South Blair Street until it turns to the East Washington Avenue to the northeast. On the East Washington Avenue U.S. 151 leaves the city. After about three miles turn from Wisconsin State Route 30 and a little further north-east U.S. 151 crossed by the trunk route U.S. 51.
Madison to Fond du Lac
At an interchange with Interstate 39, Interstate 90 and Interstate 94 occupies one of a motorway section of U.S. 151 begins This leads northeast through industrial areas that will eventually be replaced by residential areas. The route bypasses Sun Prairie west and north and then through farmland to Columbus to. Approximately in the middle of the bypass of the village leads Wisconsin State Route 16 at U.S. 151 passes. U.S. 151 is after the intersection with Wisconsin State Route 73 to an expressway with level crossings, at the end of bypass of Columbus. In Beaver Dam, that happens the Highway to the southeast, U.S. 151 is back to a crossing-free road that runs along the edge of the residential development. On East Burnett Street, there is however a railroad crossing. Northeast of the city, it's back level at-grade intersections before in Waupun, again a highway- like portion begins. U.S. 151 then performs as a four-lane expressway to the east, leads south and east past Fond du Lac. Levelling same and crossing-free junctions alternate to this section; U.S. Highway 41 and Wisconsin State Route 23 intersect here. The Wisconsin Department of Transportation ( WisDOT ) is currently considering expansion projects of two sections. It involves both the expansion of the bypass Fond du Lacs with the ultimate goal of complete conversion into a motorway. The other study investigated the development between the intersection with WIS 73 and WIS 49 in Columbus in Waupun.
Fond du Lac to Manitowoc
The multi-lane section of U.S. 151 ends after the line from Fond du Lac turns and the east shore of Lake Winnebago to about half of its length follows. U.S. 151 then bends at the junction with the Wisconsin State Route 55 to the east. Within Chilton overlaps the track just with Wisconsin State Route 32 and State Route 57 Then the Wisconsin Highway runs through farmland through, crossed the Interstate 43 and reached Manitowoc. There it ends at U.S. Highway 10, just a few blocks from the ferry terminal to the SS Badger.
History
U.S. 151 was one of the original highways that were reported in 1926. At the time, the only route of Fond du Lac to Madison, where U.S. 151 ended at the intersection of Western Avenue and Main Street. But the Highway in 1934 was extended in a southwesterly direction to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and then U.S. Route 118 ( Dodgeville Dickeyville ) completely and U.S. Highway 161 between Dubuque and Cedar Rapids; between Cedar Rapids and Keokuk U.S. was 161 to U.S. Highway 218 to the southern end point of the intersection with U.S. 30/US 218 was in the 1940s, the highway was conducted in a northeasterly direction to to Manitowoc.
The Eagle Point Bridge, through the U.S. 61 and U.S. 151 was connected with Wisconsin, was closed in 1969 and the two highways were given a modified route over the Julien Dubuque Bridge, together with U.S. Highway 20 between Dubuque and East Dubuque, Illinois. U.S. 151 then overlapped with Illinois State Route 35 and Wisconsin State Route 35 north. The Dubuque - Wisconsin Bridge was released in 1982, the old Eagle Point Bridge was demolished and U.S. 61/US 151 out over the new bridge.
At its southern end, the highway was extended again in 1981, when U.S. 30 was a road environment. 1986 transferred to U.S. 151 to Cedar Rapids deal about the Iowa State Route 13 and U.S. 30. The route through the city is now signposted as Business U.S. 151, although the official name is State Route 922. The most recent change to the route of U.S. 151 was in 1989, when the south end was moved to the exit 225 of Interstate 80. This extension follows the route of the former Wisconsin State Route 149 U.S. 151 thus became the main road through the Amana Colonies.