Portal:Michigan highways/Selected article/June 2015

The SS Drummond Islander IV crossing the De Tour Passage near the SS American Mariner

M-134 is a state trunkline highway in the Upper Peninsula. It connects I-75 north of St. Ignace with the communities of Hessel, Cedarville and De Tour Village along Lake Huron. East of De Tour, the highway crosses the De Tour Passage on a ferry to run south of the community of Drummond on Drummond Island. It is one of only three state trunklines in Michigan on islands; the others are M-154 on Harsens Island and M-185 on Mackinac Island. M-134 is also one of only two highways to utilize a ferry in Michigan; the other is US 10 which crosses Lake Michigan. Most of the mainland portion of M-134 is also part of the Lake Huron Circle Tour. The current highway was renumbered to use the M-134 designation in 1939. Since then, it was extended eastward to end south of Goetzville in the 1950s, with a further extension to De Tour in the 1950s. The western section was moved closer to the lakeshore in the 1960s. The last change came when M-134 was extended to Drummond Island in 1989. (more...)

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