The Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) Northeast Region provides winter construction operations for multi-year projects or carryover state highway construction projects with work in 2025. It details anticipated winter construction activities, schedules and traffic impacts. Please see individual project construction websites for up-to-date project construction information.

The Northeast Region Weekly Highway Construction Update is suspended over winter. The weekly update will begin again in spring 2025.

The NE Region consists of 11 counties: Brown, Calumet, Door, Fond du Lac, Kewaunee, Manitowoc, Marinette, Oconto, Outagamie, Sheboygan, and Winnebago. Below is a list of public resources available for construction, work zone and traffic impact information.

Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter for Northeast Region highway news, traffic impacts and project updates at https://twitter.com/WisDOTnortheast.

If you have any questions, please give us a call or send us an email. We would be happy to respond.

Mark Kantola and Missy Kok, Regional Communications Managers
Mark.Kantola@dot.wi.gov, (920) 492-4153; Melissa2.kok@dot.wi.gov, (920) 492-5743

See you in the 2025 construction season!

 

BROWN COUNTY

 

Southbridge Early Fill and Frontage Roads – This is a construction contract for the I-41 Expansion Project between Appleton and De Pere.

Location/limits: Local streets/frontage roads near the future Southbridge Interchange.

Length: 0.68 miles

Cost: $3.48 million

Schedule: July 22 to September 2025

Description of work: In order to build the new, I-41 overpass required for the Brown County South Bridge Connector, local frontage road realignment needs to be completed. This contract will realign the frontage roads. Work includes roadway embankment, prefabricated vertical and horizontal drains, base aggregate, concrete pavement, hot mix asphalt pavement, storm sewer, erosion control, signing, pavement marking, and all incidental items necessary to complete the work.

Winter 2024/25: Crews will continue to install the wick drains for ground stabilization to accelerate settlement and geotechnical instrumentation will be monitored throughout the winter.

Traffic impacts: Various I-41 lane closures will take place during construction operations.

• Please see the project website for winter 2024/25 traffic impacts.

Project website: https://i41project.wisconsindot.gov/

Brown County South Bridge Connector information (Brown County Local Project): Please contact the County for information on the bridge project. Brown County Bridge Website: https://www.browncountywi.gov/departments/highway/general-information/south-bridge-connector/.

 

DOOR COUNTY

 

WIS 57 Culvert Replacements

Location/Limits: Four structures on WIS 57 at Lily Bay Creek, Geisel Creek, Logan Creek and Hibbard Creek in Door County. The structures are located between the Mid Junction with WIS 42 near Sturgeon Bay to Baileys Harbor in the towns of Sevastopol, Baileys Harbor and Jacksonport.​

Length: 17.6 miles (4 structures)

Schedule: Multi-year project. September 3, 2024 to November 14, 2025.

Cost: $3.3 million

Description of work: Work includes replacements/repair of structures at Lily Bay Creek (complete 2024), Geisel Creek (complete 2024), Logan Creek and Hibbard Creek, replacement of asphalt pavement adjacent to and over new structure, beamguard removals, pavement marking on new asphalt pavement at each bridge/culvert replacement location, driveway culvert replacements at Geisel Creek and Logan Creek, driveway relocation near Logan Creek crossing, storm sewer installation near Logan Creek crossing.

Winter 24/25: Crews will complete clearing and grubbing operations at Hibbard Creek and Logan Creek sites in preparation for 2025 construction. Clearing and grubbing will take place between late December 2024 and January 14, 2025. Construction at Logan Creek will begin in spring 2025.

Traffic Impacts: 

Winter 24/25: Clearing and grubbing operations will be completed under a single lane closure with flagging.

During construction in 2025, WIS 57 will be closed to through traffic at each crossing below.

• Logan Creek work in spring of 2025
• Hibbard Creek work in fall of 2025

Project website: https://projects.511wi.gov/wis57sheb/

 

FOND DU LAC/ WINNEBAGO COUNTIES

 

I-41 Resurfacing

Location/limits: County D (Military Road) in Fond du Lac County to WIS 26 in Winnebago County

Length: 14.15 miles

Schedule: October 21, 2024 to late October 2025

Cost: $26 million

Description of work: Mill and overlay two (2) inches of asphalt in both lanes of I-41 in the project limits. Replace cable barrier and guardrail along I-41 mainline and ramps. Miscellaneous structure maintenance work. Miscellaneous culvert extension and slope flattening work. Replace existing box culvert to address flooding issue north of County Z.

Winter 2024/2025:  Crew will continue with box culvert extension work in Fond du Lac and Winnebago counties until early January 2025. Work will cease in January for the winter and resume in March 2025.

Traffic impacts: Work will be completed utilizing off-peak hour lane closures, reducing traffic to one lane in each direction in the work zone until winter shutdown in January 2025.

• Please see the project website for updated traffic impacts through January 2025.

Project website: https://projects.511wi.gov/i41fdloutrehab/

 

OUTAGAMIE COUNTY

 

New Wisconsin State Patrol headquarters and I-41 Safety and Weight Enforcement Facility (SWEF) – This is a construction contract for the I-41 Expansion Project between Appleton and De Pere.

Location/limits: Safety and Weight Enforcement Facility on northbound I-41 near County U (County Line Road) in Wrightstown.

Schedule: October 25, 2024 through December 2025

Cost: $16.2 million

Description of work:  This is a construction contract for the I-41 Expansion Project between Appleton and De Pere. The contracts will create a new regional headquarters for the Wisconsin State Patrol and a replace the current Safety and Weight Enforcement Facility (SWEF) located along northbound I-41 in Wrightstown. The project is broken into two construction contracts with the current contract involving the demolition of the existing buildings and constructing a retention pond, communication towers, and a new building that will serve as both a modernized safety and weight enforcement facility and regional headquarters for the Wisconsin State Patrol. The second construction contract will include ramp connections to I-41, new loop ramps within the project site, a static scale, weigh-in-motion scaling, and a commercial parking lot to accommodate semi-truck parking on the facility grounds.

Winter 2024/25:  Work on the Safety and Weight Enforcement building will continue throughout the winter with foundation work in December, structural steel framing and precast concrete wall panels being erected in January, roofing in February, and other building mechanical systems throughout the winter and spring.  The communication tower construction is anticipated to begin in early 2025.

Traffic impacts: No impacts to I-41 motorists at this time. SWEF is closed until December 2025. No public access to SWEF during construction.

Project website: https://i41project.wisconsindot.gov/

 

WIS 47 and 54 Resurfacing

Location/limits: WIS 47 from County B in the village of Black Creek to the north Outagamie County line in the town of Cicero. WIS 54 from County Highway S in the town of Liberty to Park Street in the village of Shiocton

Length: 8.1 miles (WIS 47). 8.8 miles (WIS 54)

Schedule:

WIS 47 – October 7, 2024, through late-August 2025.

• Winter 2024/25: No work until early June 2025.

WIS 54 – September 3, 2024, through late-August 2025.

• Winter 2024/25: No work until early May 2025

Cost: $10.2 million

Description of work: This project includes common excavation, removing asphaltic surface milling, asphalt paving, base aggregate, culvert pipe repairs and replacements, box culvert construction, storm sewer repairs, guardrail, rumble strips, sidewalk, curb and gutter, marking lines and incidental items.

Winter 2024/2025: This project is currently in winter shutdown and will resume in spring of 2025.

Project website: https://projects.511wi.gov/5447combined/

 

WIS 96 Reconditioning

Schedule: August 2024 to September 2024

Length: 1.36 Miles

Cost: $1.45 million

Location: WIS 96 from approximately Cleary Court to Tower View Drive in the town of Greenville and the village of Greenville, Outagamie County.

Description: Work consists of asphaltic surface milling, base patching concrete, base patching asphaltic, asphalt patching, sign structure, guardrail, replacing sections of two cross culverts, pavement marking, and incidental items.

Winter 2024/25: All work complete except for sign bridge. Crews are waiting for materials to erect the sign bridge. All other construction operations were complete in 2024.

In-construction weekly updates: https://projects.511wi.gov/weeklyupdates-ne/

 

Capitol Drive Bridge Replacement – This is a construction contract for the I-41 Expansion Majors Project between Appleton and De Pere.

Location/limits: Capitol Drive over I-41 between North Capitol Court to West Capitol Drive in the city of Appleton.

Length: 0.31 miles

Cost: $5.22 million

Schedule: April 1, 2024 to spring 2025

Description of work: This is a construction contract for the I-41 Expansion Project between Appleton and De Pere. This current contract is to replace the Capitol Drive overpass and approaches. Temporary median widening will be constructed along I-41 from the south of the WIS 15 interchange to just east of the North Lynndale Drive overpass. Please see the project website for details of the five-year project.

Winter 2024/2025: Project currently in winter shutdown. Crews will install railing in spring 2025. The project will be complete following the railing installation.

I-41 Expansion Project website: https://i41project.wisconsindot.gov/

 

County N Interchange Reconstruction – This is a construction contract for the I-41 Expansion Project between Appleton and De Pere.

Location/limits: Moasis/Patriot Drive to East Evergreen Drive

Length: 0.25 miles

Cost: $4.21 million

Schedule: June 17, 2024, to December 2024

Description of work: This is a construction contract for the I-41 Expansion Project between Appleton and De Pere. This work is to reconstruct the County N Interchange at I-41 and the County N and Moasis/Patriot Drive Intersection.

2024/2025 Winter: Contractor will finish installing the permanent traffic signals at the County N and I-41 interchange ramps. Work on this project will be completed by the end of 2024.

Project website: https://i41project.wisconsindot.gov/

 

WIS 15 Salt Shed Construction

Location/limits: (Off highway work) WIS 15 from WIS 76 to New London from County JJ – County T/Givens RD.

Schedule: September 3, 2024 through May 2025

Cost: $1,050,000

Description of work: This project includes creation of a salt storage building, asphaltic surface, concrete pavement, base aggregate dense, select crushed material, storm sewer items, erosion control and finishing items on Givens Road.

Winter 2024/2025: Crews plan on backfilling the foundation, installing columns and framing, roofing, siding, doors, electrical and lighting throughout the winter. Crews plan on returning in the spring to finish shouldering and asphaltic surface placement.

Project website: https://projects.511wi.gov/wis15expand/

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