^Looking south from about a mile north of the Indiana border, January 2026.

​​Michigan Highway 103 is a very short connector to north-central Indiana from US Route 12.  The southern end is the Indiana border, where Michigan Highway 103 becomes Indiana State Route 15 bound for Bristol, Indiana.  Michigan Highway 103 runs for a mere three miles northward from there, ending in the tiny town of Mottville at US Route 12.  Since the northern terminus at US Route 12 is just east of the southern terminus of Michigan Highway 40, I'm not sure why routes 40 and 103 don't share the same number.

An older photo of Michigan Highway 103 once took center stage on this webpage, but it has been replaced by a slightly better photo that I took more recently. The newer photo appears next, but the older photo has been relocated to the bottom of this page.

My newer photo of Michigan Highway 103 shows a southbound trailblazer south of Mottville. The aperture looks south from the intersection with Blyly Road, which occurs midway through one's drive along the state highway. Lake-effect snow is common here, and it was piling up as I drove home from western Michigan. To avoid the worst of the snowfall, I took an odd route home on this day in January 2026, avoiding the Lake Michigan shoreline, and it gave me the opportunity to photograph the wintry scene you see here.

My older photo of a Michigan Highway 103 marker came from the northern end at US Route 12, in Mottville.  The signage depicted is the eastbound junction marker, alerting eastbound travelers on US Route 12 that the turn onto Michigan Highway 103 is coming up.  This photo was taken in February 2019, as I was tooling around far southern Michigan.

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