By the start of the 1970's, Michigan had developed a network of roadside services including more than 100 roadside parks, some 70 freeway rest areas and travel information centers. This travel information center on I-69 south of Coldwater was judged best in the nation in 1971 competition by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
ment winter maintenance policy that kept state highways driveable every day of the year. It developed one of the nation's finest networks of attractively designed and landscaped freeway rest areas and roadside parks as well as a statewide system of travel information centers that now serve nearly two million visitors a year.
Off the freeway system, improvements large and small were made on thousands of miles of state highways. Higher safety standards and improved design made driving safer and easier and speeded the flow of traffic. So did new and improved materials and construction methods, traffic and safety devices and spot improvements
Interstate 75 Freeway in Cheboygan County was named by Parade Magazine as the most beautiful stretch of highway built in the United States in 1963.
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