Walk the line — the proposed corridor
Walk the line.
The developer’s map is a set of thin lines across 140 miles. Scroll to see the country they cross — the same cold-water streams and karst, nearly the whole way. The routes shown are the MariBell project’s primary and alternate routes — proposed and not yet finalized. The BECI continuation, running east and south to the Illinois line, still has no route — its developer, Midcontinent Grid Solutions, has published a nine-county study area and, as of July 2026, 78 candidate study segments (drawn on the map) — but no selected route. Its four named connection points: Bell Center, the Columbia substation near Portage, the Sugar Creek substation near Elkhorn, and a state-line crossing in Rock County. The Hillsboro area, named in the developers’ January announcement, appears in none of the developer’s published maps.
Is your land near the route?
Map layers
MariBell: approximate, proposed routes — for orientation only. BECI: candidate study segments + study area — no route selected. Geocoding by OpenStreetMap/Nominatim + Wisconsin’s public statewide parcel layer. Need help? Landowner support →