Our Children’s Road closes for service repairs in Menominee County
Drivers in Keshena faced a closure on Our Children’s Road Monday as crews repaired utilities between Hwy 47 and the DKB exit. The tribe said to use alternate routes until the work is finished.
Residents moving through Keshena had to reroute Monday after the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin closed Our Children’s Road from Hwy 47 to the exit of DKB for service repairs. The tribe said the shutdown was needed to protect the public and construction crews, and directed drivers to use alternative routes until the work was complete.
The closure cuts through a corridor that matters every day in Menominee County. Keshena is one of the county’s four main communities, and the county shares coterminous boundaries with the Menominee Indian Reservation, where a single road can connect homes, workplaces, deliveries and tribal services. When a route like Our Children’s Road is blocked, the impact reaches beyond one neighborhood and into the daily travel patterns of people crossing between tribal and county areas.
Anyone needing more information was directed to the Utility Office at 715-799-3587. The notice was brief, but it fit a broader run of maintenance work in the community: the tribe also posted a Rabbit Ridge Road service-repair notice on May 28, 2026, and a Neopit water-system repair notice on May 27, 2026. That pattern suggests continued utility and road work across the reservation as crews respond to infrastructure needs.
The transportation picture in Menominee County adds to the stakes. Wisconsin Department of Transportation materials show active work planning for WIS 47 and WIS 55 in the county, and a 2024 federal release described those highways as important connections between the Menominee Reservation and North Central Wisconsin. The Menominee County Highway Department says it issues permits for rights-of-way involving the State of Wisconsin, Menominee County and the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin, underscoring how closely road, utility and access decisions are tied together here. For drivers, the immediate rule remained simple: stay out of the work zone, follow alternate routes and wait for normal access to return when the repairs are finished.
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