Īs part of the state's maintenance of M-119, MDOT tracks the volume of traffic that uses the roadway. M-119, and state maintenance, end at the intersection between Lake Shore Drive and C-66/C-77 (State Road) in the middle of town. As the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) states on their website, "M-119 is not a road for those in a hurry." The roadway is known as the Tunnel of Trees because, "the foliage from trees on either side of the road meets high over the middle of road where it forms a canopy so soft that it lets daylight trickle through in small amounts only." The trunkline continues through the community of Good Hart up the Lake Michigan shoreline to the community of Cross Village.
Along this area of the routing, the highway narrows in width and continues through the forest without a centerline most of the remainder of the way. The writers at National Geographic said that "only sometimes can you catch glimmers of Lake Michigan through the trees, but the dense foliage lends beauty to the winding road". The roadway meanders through oaks, maples, birch and cedars along an old Ottawa trail. Bluff Drive becomes Lake Shore Drive near the Harbor Point Golf Course, and M-119 turns northward to follow the Lake Michigan shoreline at the mouth of Little Traverse Bay. įrom Harbor Springs on, M-119 is the Tunnel of Trees Scenic Heritage Route, one of the Pure Michigan Byways in the state. M-119 continues westward, passing through a residential area on Bluff Drive as it leaves the city. It turns north and then westward along State Street in the middle of town, intersecting the southern end of C-77 in the central business district. As it passes into the city limits of Harbor Springs, the highway follows Main Street into downtown. Through this area, M-119 runs through the community of Wequetonsing and forests just inland from the bay's northern shore. The trunkline passes the eastern and northern edges of the Harbor Springs Municipal Airport as it turns westward near the junction with C-81 (Pleasantview Road). The highway runs north between Petoskey State Park on the west and Round Lake on the east as it rounds the east end of Little Traverse Bay. M-119 starts at an intersection with US 31 about four miles (6.4 km) northeast of Petoskey near the community of Bay View in Bear Creek Township. Portions of the Tunnel of Trees section running between Harbor Springs and Good Hart, lacking a centerline Since the M-119 designation was applied to the current highway, no changes have been made to the routing. In between 19, M-131 was extended and truncated on both its northern and southern ends at various times. During this timeframe, another highway bore the M-119 moniker in the southern part of the state near Paw Paw from the 1930s until the early 1970s. This highway was later redesignated M-131 in late 1926, a designation it held until 1979. The first highway along the route of the modern M-119 was a section of the original M-13 designated by July 1, 1919. On an average day, between 2,000 and 15,000 vehicles use various parts of the highway.
This section of highway lacks a centerline and is known for its scenic beauty. North of Harbor Springs, the highway is known as the Tunnel of Trees Scenic Heritage Route. The highway follows the shore of Lake Michigan and the Little Traverse Bay, with its southern terminus at US Highway 31 (US 31) near Bay View, about four miles (6.4 km) east of Petoskey the northern terminus is at a junction with county roads C-66 and C-77 in Cross Village. M-119 is a 27.548-mile (44.334 km) state trunkline highway entirely within Emmet County in the US state of Michigan.
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