High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Interstate 296 (I-296) is a part of the Interstate Highway System in the US state of Michigan. It is a state trunkline highway that runs for 3.43 miles (5.52 km) entirely within the Grand Rapids area. Its termini are I-96 on the north side of Grand Rapids in Walker and I-196 near downtown Grand Rapids. The entire length is concurrent with U.S. Highway 131 (US 131), which continues as a freeway built to interstate standards north and south of the shorter Interstate. The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) has eliminated all signage for I-296 and removed the designation from their officially published state map. The designation is therefore unsigned, but still listed on the Federal Highway Administration`s route log for the Interstate Highway System.