M-27 (Michigan highway)
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M-27 is a short north-south highway in the extreme north of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan between I-75 just north of Indian River and Cheboygan, where it meets US 23 near Lake Huron. It remains as a relic of the old US 27 which disappeared north of Grayling because I-75 lies close to old US 27 between Grayling and Indian River. Michigan decommissions almost all US or state highways that any Interstate Highway supplants.
I-75 takes a more direct route between Indian River and Mackinaw City; old US 27 leads through Topinabee and Cheboygan. Between Cheboygan and Mackinaw City, US 23 and US 27 coincided before 1963; US 23 remains intact. I-75 angles west of due north toward Mackinaw City; US 27 (and now M-27) angles to the east toward the north.
With US 23 it is a scenic, if indirect alternative to I-75 on its approach to the Mackinac Bridge.
At one time, M-27 extended through Indian River to a junction with M-68; it has since been scaled back to I-75.
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