Wisconsin Highway 80

State Trunk Highway 80 (abbreviated as Highway 80, STH-80 or WIS 80) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It runs north–south in southwest and west central Wisconsin from just south of Marshfield, near the geographic center of the state to the Illinois border near Hazel Green.

State Trunk Highway 80
Route information
Maintained by WisDOT
Length	175.73 mi (282.81 km)
Major junctions
South end	IL 84 in Hazel Green
	US 151 in Platteville US 18 in Montfort US 18 in Cobb US 14 in Richland Center US 12 / WIS 16 in New Lisbon I-90 / I-94 in New Lisbon
North end	US 10 in Marshfield
Location
Counties	Grant, Iowa, Richland, Vernon, Juneau, Wood
Highway system
Wisconsin State Trunk Highway System Interstate US State Scenic Rustic ← WIS 79 → WIS 81

Route description

Highway 80 begins at a roundabout with U.S. Highway 10 just south of Marshfield, running south through the farmlands of Wood County before combining with Wisconsin Highway 73 and heading east for 2.5 miles to Pittsville, where it turns south through town and comes within a few hundred yards of the geographic center of the state. South from Pittsville, the terrain is flat as Highway 80 passes along the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge, through the center of Necedah, and into New Lisbon just past the junction with I-90/94. South of New Lisbon, it enters the Driftless Area with many rolling hills and curves. Highway 80 meets up with Highway 82 heading into Elroy, southern trailhead of the Elroy-Sparta Trail, and then to Union Center where Highway 33 also joins for the ride into Hillsboro. At Hillsboro, Highways 33 and 82 head west and Highway 80 continues south into Richland County, through Hub City and into Richland Center, birthplace of Frank Lloyd Wright and also GTE.

Highway 80 crosses the Wisconsin River into Muscoda, which bills itself as the "Morel mushroom capital of Wisconsin." Highway 133 joins 80 for the ride east five miles before 80 heads south again to Highland and Cobb, where the land continues to be hilly but becomes less forested and more rolling farmland. At Cobb, Highway 80 follows U.S. Highway 18 west for five miles before heading south along the Iowa-Grant County Line past Livingston and into Platteville, where it meets Highway 81 in town and U.S. Highway 151 south of town at the freeway bypass. South of Platteville, Highway 80 occasionally aligns itself along the Grant-Lafayette County Line as it heads through Cuba City and Hazel Green, where Highway 11 joins for a few miles. South of Hazel Green, Highway 80 ends at the Illinois state line, where it meets Illinois Highway 84 one half mile west of the state's "Point of Beginning," the location from which most public land surveys in Wisconsin originated.

Major intersections

County	Location	mi	km	Destinations	Notes
Grant	Town of Hazel Green	0.00	0.00	IL 84 south – Galena	Continuation into Illinois
	Hazel Green			WIS 11 west – Dubuque	Southern end of WIS 11 overlap
	Town of Hazel Green			WIS 11 east – Benton	Northern end of WIS 11 overlap
	Town of Smelser			WIS 81 east – Darlington	Southern end of WIS 81 overlap
	Platteville			US 151 – Dubuque, Madison
				Bus. US 151 (Dubuque Road)
				WIS 81 west – Lancaster	Northern end of WIS 81 overlap
Grant–Iowa county line	Montfort			US 18 west – Fennimore	Western end of US 18 overlap
Iowa	Cobb			US 18 east – Dodgeville	Eastern end of US 18 overlap
	Town of Pulaski			WIS 133 north – Avoca, Lone Rock	Eastern end of WIS 133 overlap
Grant	Muscoda			WIS 133 south – Blue River, Boscobel	Western end of WIS 133 overlap
Richland	Town of Eagle			WIS 60 – Gotham, Wauzeka
				WIS 193 south
	Richland Center			US 14 – La Crosse, Madison
	Town of Rockbridge			WIS 56 west – Viola
Vernon	Hillsboro			WIS 33 west / WIS 82 west – Ontario, La Farge	Southern end of WIS 33 and WIS 82 overlaps
Juneau	Union Center			WIS 33 east – Wonewoc	Northern end of WIS 33 overlap
	Elroy			WIS 71 west – Kendall
				WIS 82 east – Mauston	Northern end of WIS 82 overlap
	New Lisbon			US 12 east / WIS 16 east – Mauston	Southern end of US 12 / WIS 16 overlap
				US 12 west / WIS 16 west – Camp Douglas	Northern end of US 12 / WIS 16 overlap
				I-90 / I-94 – Tomah, Madison
	Town of Clearfield			WIS 58 south – Mauston
	Necedah			WIS 21 – Tomah, Coloma
Wood	Town of Remington			WIS 173 south – Mather	Southern end of WIS 173 overlap
	Babcock			WIS 173 north – Nekoosa	Northern end of WIS 173 overlap
	Town of Dexter			WIS 54 east – Port Edwards	Southern end of WIS 54 overlap
	Dexterville			WIS 54 west – Black River Falls	Northern end of WIS 54 overlap
	Pittsville			WIS 73 east – Wisconsin Rapids	Eastern end of WIS 73 overlap
	Town of Wood			WIS 73 west – Neillsville	Western end of WIS 73 overlap
	Town of Cameron			US 10 – Marshfield, Neillsville, Stevens Point	Roundabout
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

•  U.S. Roads portal

References

External links

• Wisconsin Highways: Highways 80 through 89
• StateTrunkTour.com, Wisconsin Highway 80