{"id":6935,"date":"2016-01-06T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T16:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=6935"},"modified":"2016-01-06T00:50:59","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T06:50:59","slug":"year-in-review-clinching-us-61-in-wisconsin-and-iowa-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/01\/year-in-review-clinching-us-61-in-wisconsin-and-iowa-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Year in review: Clinching US 61 in Wisconsin (and Iowa, again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6936\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/61_35_81.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/61_35_81.jpg 540w, https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/61_35_81-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>June 18, 2015:<\/strong> US 61 still runs through Lancaster, Wisconsin, despite WI 129 being an obvious bypass route. Going through town is a less-straight alignment for 61.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A roadgeek meeting in Madison plus a two-day summer trip offered chances to go after my nearest untraveled significant stretches of US highways in southwest Wisconsin. As part of my trip to the first event, I did US 14 from east of the point it meets US 61 near Viroqua to I-39\/90 at Janesville. For the second, I could pick up where that left off.<\/p>\n<p>US 61 in Wisconsin runs through the heart of the Driftless Area, offering lovely scenery from a gently winding two-lane. It exits the state with US 14 at La Crosse. Near the south end, right after it splits from US 151, is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dickeyvillegrotto.com\/\">Dickeyville Grotto<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Less than three weeks before that, I drove to Fort Madison to go on the US 61 bypass for the first time since its opening. That&#8217;s the second time I&#8217;ve had to re-drive part of US 61, the other being its reroute onto I-80 and I-280, and I&#8217;ll have to do it again when the four-lane to Grandview is completed. Now the only stoplights along mainline US 61 in Iowa are in Muscatine, Burlington, and Dubuque.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve now been on US 61 from downtown St. Paul to where it leaves I-64 west of downtown St. Louis, and then off and on at points south of there to Memphis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 18, 2015: US 61 still runs through Lancaster, Wisconsin, despite WI 129 being an obvious bypass route. Going through town is a less-straight alignment for 61. A roadgeek meeting in Madison plus a two-day summer trip offered chances to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/01\/year-in-review-clinching-us-61-in-wisconsin-and-iowa-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trip-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6935"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6943,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935\/revisions\/6943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}