This Strip of Pavement is from a West Michigan Freeway the State Totally Abandoned

There is a truly rare phenomenon on the highways of America - the ghost ramp and ghost roads. Bits of pavement built for an expressway project then neglected likely never to be completed.

One such "ghostway" exists in West Michigan outside of Ludington where US 31 meets US 10.

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The ghost strip would have been US 31 travelling southbound. The pavement can be seen from the on-ramp from US 10. It's fully marked with yellow and white lines
There's a ghost road near Ludington where the US 31 freeway ends and the hint of what a freeway extension should have been.

The traffic coming onto the beginning of the US 31 freeway merges at this point, but the unused portion is easily seen as grass is slowly taking over the pavement.

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The question came up on a Facebook group dedicated to old highway alignments.

As to why the freeway ended here, the Ludington Daily News reported as part of a 150-year anniversary of the region, that opposition came not from those in Ludington but further north in Manistee.

The opposition came from the north of Mason County in Manistee. Those opposed in Manistee — the likely next link in the freeway — began to speak out in 1975 about it in their county, and it lasted a full decade. The concerns were prime resort areas in that county by the freeway.

If that's the case, it was this opposition that led to abandonment of the freeway and a quicker trip along the northwest Lake Michigan coastline.