 US 41 then followed present day Velp Avenue north to Suamico where it merged with what is now the US 41 freeway.Until 1968 this was the outer highway for Green Bay; the area now is urbanized.The 1953–1968 Green Bay bypass was once again bypassed, sequentially, with the present US 41 freeway beginning at Velp, southerly to Lombardi in 1968; Velp north to Suamico in 1971; then from Lombardi south to De Pere in 1974.