Мичиган штатындағы M-63 тас жолы және тарихи көпірлер

State highway in Berrien County, Michigan, United States
At Main Street, Niles Avenue ends, and M 63 joins Business Loop I 94 (BL I 94) on Main Street into and through the downtown business district. The two highways continue together running concurrently to Ship and Port streets. These two streets form a one way pair running east to carry BL I 94 to and from a separate bridge over the St. Joseph River. M 63 continues along Main Street across the river into Benton Harbor, Michigan where it follows the Lake Michigan shoreline along a short expressway segment. The trunkline exits Benton Harbor near the headquarters of the Whirlpool Corporation. North of town, the highway provides access to many lakeshore properties north of Benton Harbor at it continues northeasterly along the shoreline to the community of Lake Michigan Beach. When the highway meets Hagar Shore Road, M 63 turns east along that roadway to an interchange with I 196/US 31. The shoreline roadway continues northeast as A 2 (Blue Star Highway) while M 63 terminates at an interchange with I 196/US 31. The expressway portion of M 63 is a relic of a now revised plan of a freeway corridor through the St. Joseph–Benton Harbor area. The highway was significantly reconfigured in 2000–2002,

The Blossomland Bridge over the St. Joseph River is eligible to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The span is a Scherzer rolling lift bascule, a type of moveable bridge. The bridge was built as part of a 1940s plan to relocate US 31 through St. Joseph and Benton Harbor. Those plans were delayed by World War II. The bridge was completed in late 1948 using the rare design prepared by a firm from Chicago that specialized in bascule bridges. The state paid a total of $1.3 million for what was called "the largest bridge ever built under the auspices of the State Highway Department".