M-39 (Michigan highway)

M-39
M-39
Southfield Road, Southfield Freeway
	M-39 highlighted in red
Route information
	Maintained by MDOT
Length	17.006 mi (27.369 km)
Existed	c. 1959–present
Major junctions
South end	Lafayette Boulevard in Lincoln Park
	I-75 in Lincoln Park; I-94 in Allen Park; US 12 in Dearborn; I-96 in Detroit; M-102 on the Detroit–Southfield border;
North end	M-10 in Southfield
Location
Country	United States
State	Michigan
Counties	Wayne, Oakland
Highway system
	Michigan State Trunkline Highway System; Interstate; US; State; Byways;

M-39 is a 16-mile-long (26 km) north–south state trunkline highway in Metro Detroit area of the US state of Michigan that runs from Lincoln Park, on the south end, to Southfield on the north. The official southern terminus of M-39 is at the corner of Southfield Road and Lafayette Boulevard in Lincoln Park, one block southeast of the junction of Interstate 75 (I-75, Fisher Freeway) and two blocks northwest of M-85 (Fort Street). From there the highway heads northward. The first 2.3 miles (3.7 km) of the highway follows Southfield Road, a divided highway in the Downriver area. It then transitions into the Southfield Freeway, which is a 13.7-mile-long (22.0 km) freeway that runs from I-94 in Allen Park north through Dearborn, and then the west side of Detroit, to Southfield. The northern terminus is at M-10 (Lodge Freeway) in Southfield.

The current M-39 is the third highway to bear the designation. The first dated back to the origins of the state highway system in 1919 and ran between Grand Rapids and Lansing. This highway was replaced in segments through the 1920s and 1930s by realignments or extensions of other highways in the area. The second was part of Schaefer Highway in the Detroit area from 1939 until the end of the 1950s. The current highway was commissioned when the M-39 designation was moved to Southfield Road from Schaefer Highway. During the 1960s, it was converted into a freeway in stages. Afterwards, it was extended to end at M-85 (Fort Street) before a change in the 1980s gave the trunkline its present termini.

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