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Top 10 County Highways Near New Glarus
From scenic ridge roads and state park access to Madison shortcuts and a route with its own Swiss pageant, we ranked 11 lettered highways around New Glarus and still found room to send one perfectly respectable road home without a trophy.
New Glarus sits amid a maze of lettered county highways that roll across hills, dip into valleys and occasionally leave motorists wondering whether they are still taking a shortcut or have accidentally begun a tour of every dairy farm in Green County.
Green County maintains approximately 279 miles of county trunk highways. These are the roads marked by letters rather than numbers — H, NN, W and others — creating a transportation network that resembles alphabet soup poured across a map.
State highways get people to New Glarus. County highways explain why many of them take 20 minutes longer than expected because they became distracted by the scenery, followed a tractor or trusted someone who said, “I know a back way.”
The criteria included scenery, usefulness, proximity to New Glarus, local character and whether the highway’s letter appears to have been selected deliberately. No traffic engineers participated, no public money was spent and no county highway was permitted to appeal.
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