Saginaw Trail

Pre-statehood trails of Michigan

Saginaw Trail is the collective name for a set of connected roads in Southeastern Michigan that runs from Detroit to Saginaw through Pontiac and Flint. It was originally a tribal foot trail. On December 7, 1818, the Michigan Territorial government authorized the building of a road from Detroit to Saginaw along the trail. In the early 20th century, it was used as part of the Dixie Highway and the Theodore Roosevelt International Highway, early auto trails in the state. It was later designated as a part of US Highway 10 (US 10) when the United States Numbered Highway System was created in 1926. Since the Michigan portion of Interstate 75 (I-75) was completed in 1973, it has been a county road or part of other state highways.

To drive it today, drivers would follow:

• M-1 (Woodward Avenue) from Detroit to Birmingham;
• Old Woodward Avenue through Birmingham;
• M-1 (Woodward Avenue) from Birmingham to Pontiac;
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  Bus. US 24 (Woodward Avenue) into downtown Pontiac;
• US 24 (Dixie Highway) north of Pontiac to Clarkston;
• Dixie Highway, a set of various county roads that were previously US 10 from Clarkston to near Grand Blanc;
• Saginaw Road and Saginaw Street through Grand Blanc, Burton, and Flint to north of Mount Morris;
• M-54 (Dort Highway) from north of Mount Morris into Saginaw County;
• Dixie Highway and Genesee Avenue into Saginaw.

See also

• Michigan Highways portal