Route Description
I-69 in Michigan begins at the Indiana state line just south of Kinderhook. This is just north of an interchange with the Indiana Toll Road, which carries I-80 and I-90. From there, I-69 runs northward, passing through Coldwater and then Marshall, where it encounters I-94 for the first of two times. Near Olivet, I-69 begins to turn in a northeasterly direction, passing through Charlotte on its way into the Lansing–East Lansing metropolitan area.
On Lansing's west side, I-69 is concurrent with I-96, the only such palindromic pairing in the entire Interstate Highway System. Upon leaving the I-96 multiplex, I-69 changes cardinal orientation and is signed as east–west from that point on northwest side of Lansing through Flint to Port Huron. There, I-69 joins I-94 before both routes cross the Blue Water Bridges over the St. Clair River at the Canadian border, their common eastern termini and the only jointly named Interstate freeway to make a Canadian border crossing. I-69 is also at present the only mainline Interstate Highway in the state of Michigan that does not enter the Metro Detroit area, as well as being one of only two odd-numbered mainline Interstate Highways in America to be signed east-west (along with I-75 in South Florida).
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