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Beaver Dam Location and Transportation

Beaver Dam is located in northwest Dodge County, at the southeast corner of Beaver Dam Lake. The city is strategically located midway between Fond du Lac and the state’s capitol, Madison, along U.S. Highway 151, which provides quick and easy access to either metro area in 45 minutes or less.

In Beaver Dam, U.S. Highway 151 intersects with State Highway 33. This highway crisscrosses the state, running between LaCrosse on the Mississippi River in the west, to Port Washington on Lake Michigan in the east. To the east of Beaver Dam Highway 33 intersects with U.S. Highways 41 and 45 in Washington County, and Interstate Highway 43 (I-43) in Ozaukee County.

To the west, Highway 33 intersects with U.S. Highway 51 at Portage, and Interstate Highway 94 (I-94) just beyond at the western edge of Columbia County.

Through any number of routes, Beaver Dam is about ninety minutes to downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s largest metropolitan area. Travel time to Chicago, IL from Beaver Dam is about three hours.

A number of interstate freight trucking firms serve the city of Beaver Dam. In addition to easy auto/truck access to anywhere in the state, Beaver Dam boasts industrial rail access through the Wisconsin & Southern Railroad with daily weekday service.

The Wisconsin & Southern interchanges traffic on the same days with both of its connecting lines, the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad and the Soo Line, making rail freight transportation accessible for goods and services either coming to, or originating from, Beaver Dam, to anywhere in the nation.

Amtrak passenger rail service is available just fifteen miles to the south of Beaver Dam, with a station in Columbus. Amtrak’s Empire Builder train runs from Chicago, through Columbus, to Seattle or Portland on the west coast. In Chicago, passengers can transfer to connecting routes anywhere in the nation.

Just eight miles east of the city is the Dodge County Airport. The airport can accommodate turbo-jet aircraft such as the 16-passenger Gulfstream IV, the nine-passenger Citation VI and King Air prop jets, and also serves a wide variety of recreational and commercial propeller planes.

A fixed base operator provides 24-hour major and minor airframe and engine repair services. Hangar space, charter flights, 100 octane avgas and jet fuel are all available through airport services. Major domestic passenger and freight air travel is available through the Dane County Airport in Madison, with international flights and service available through Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee. O’Hare International, one of the busiest airports in the world, is about three hours away in metro Chicago.