Can You Drive From Michigan To Florida On One Road?

Spoiler alert: Michigan winters can be freezing! Shocking, I know. This winter alone, we've had not one but two "Arctic Blasts." Cars have been frozen solid, Lake Michigan's ice coverage is at its highest in years, and to top it all off, Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, meaning winter is going long this year. No wonder thousands of Michiganders choose to head south for the winter, where it's warm and sunny all day.

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These "snowbirds" as they've been dubbed make the trek from the northern border of the US to the southern border. It's a thousand-mile+ journey each way, but can you do the entire trip on one road? As it turns out, yes you can.

Interstate Highways

America has several interstate highways that connect the East and West coasts and the North and South borders. Highways that run east-west are all even numbers, north-south highways are all odd numbers, and Interstate Numbers divisible by 5 are major Coast-to-Coast or Border-to-Border highways. Michigan has two north-south highways I-69 and, the most pertinent to this journey, I-75.

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I-75 runs from Sault Ste. Marie on the Michigan/Canada border 1,786 miles to Miami Lakes, Florida, making it the 7th longest highway in America. If you were to book it from one border to the other, you'd be looking at a 24-hour trip through Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida.