The Stadium Freeway (also known as Miller Park Way) is a six-lane

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traveling south to north in the city of

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. This freeway was the first road of its kind built in

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. It is designated as

Wisconsin Highway 175 State Trunk Highway 175 (often called Highway 175, STH-175 or WIS 175) is a state highway in the US state of Wisconsin. It runs north–south in central Wisconsin from West Milwaukee to just south of Fond du Lac. The highway follows the for ...

(WI 175) along its northern stretch from WIS 59, past Interstate 94 (I-94) to Lisbon Avenue. The southern portion from I-94 to National Avenue was designated as

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WIS 341 from August 1999 to August 2015, and is called Miller Park Way. The road travels adjacent to the east side of

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, home of

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History

This freeway is the stump of what was to be a much larger freeway in Milwaukee. The Stadium Freeway, originally called the South 44th Street Expressway, was intended to extend much farther to the north and south than it currently does: * The Stadium Freeway was to continue northward from its present terminus at Lisbon Avenue, where it was to intersect with the proposed Park West Freeway. It was to continue northward, intersecting with the proposed

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and Fond du Lac freeways, and continuing northward to the city of Port Washington. * The Stadium Freeway was to continue southward from its present terminus at National Avenue, and terminate at

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. In fact, the interchange that was supposed to connect the Stadium Freeway to the Airport Freeway (I-43/I-894) was built entirely as the Greenfield Interchange. The interchange has since been renovated by having one of the ramps (eastbound I-894/I-43 to northbound Stadium Freeway) removed, while three other ramps connect to a

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. In 2012, during the reconstruction of the Mitchell Interchange and the WIS 241/South 27th Street exit, another ramp (southbound Stadium Freeway to westbound I-894/I-43) was removed. This currently leaves only two ramps remaining to the original interchange. * This highway once carried U.S. Route 41 (US 41) in Wisconsin, but became WIS 175 when US 41 was moved to its current alignment with

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and the Zoo Freeway.

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