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Big Rapids is a city and the seat of government of Mecosta County, Michigan, United States. The population was 7,727 at the 2020 census , [ 2 ] down from 10,601 in 2010 . [ 5 ] The city is surrounded by Big Rapids Charter Township but they are completely separate jurisdictions.
M-20 is a state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan that runs from New Era to Midland.It crosses through rural Lower Peninsula forest land between the two ends. The highway serves the college towns of Big Rapids and Mt. Pleasant, home of the main campuses of Ferris State University and Central Michigan University, both located near the trunkline.
In 1983 with the extension of the US 131 freeway west of Big Rapids to the interchange with 19 Mile Road, the former route of US 131 through Big Rapids on State Street and Northland Drive north of Perry Street was designated as a business loop, using M-20 (Perry Street) to connect back to the freeway on the southern end.
Michigan State Highway Commissioner John C. Mackie said that officials with the IHSD were "receptive to the idea" of a further addition to Indianapolis which would provide a "great benefit to Michigan's tourist industry". [57] Inset map from the October 1, 1957, Official Highway Map showing the highway configuration of Grand Rapids at that time
Colfax Township is in central Mecosta County, with Big Rapids, the county seat, 2 miles (3 km) west of the township's western border.State highway M-20 passes through the center of the township, connecting Big Rapids to the west with Rodney on the eastern edge of the township, then continuing southeast to the village of Mecosta.
Road Map of Kent County, Michigan (Map). 1 in:1.5 mi. Grand Rapids, MI: ... Official Mecosta County Road Map (Map). Scale not given. Big Rapids, MI: Mecosta County ...
The Custer Trail, named for General George Armstrong Custer, was created in 1917 along a series of roads between Grand Rapids and Ft. Wayne, Indiana that included the modern M-37. Custer commanded the Michigan Cavalry Bridge during the Civil War, and he was wildly popular in the state after the war. The road that bears his name never achieved ...
Shortest US Highway in Michigan US 10: 139.656: 224.755 Car ferry docks in Ludington: I-75/US 23 and BS I-75/M-25 in Monitor Township near Bay City: 1926 [2] current Connects to US 10 in Wisconsin via the SS Badger car ferry US 12: 210.077: 338.086 US 12 at New Buffalo Township: Michigan and Cass avenues in Detroit: 1926 [2] current