In the meantime, after crossing High Street at a four-way intersection, the road becomes a four-lane divided highway (two lanes in both directions).

As both routes reach the city limit, the road downgrades into a two-lane undivided highway.

After crossing the Wisconsin River, it curves east to meet I-39/US 51 at a diamond interchange.

[5] In 1927, the WIS 116 designation moved to use the Berlin to Butte des Morts route.

This time, it used its old route and then traveled eastward to US 10/US 12 in Fairchild (the extension is also now part of US 10).