Airports in Wisconsin
All airports closest to Wisconsin's geographic center, ranked by the number of scheduled departures on file. Click any IATA code to see the airport's destinations, operators, and route table.
| IATA | Airport | City | Departures |
|---|---|---|---|
| MKE | General Mitchell International Airport | Milwaukee | 65 |
| MSN | Dane County Regional Truax Field | Madison | 17 |
| ATW | Appleton International Airport | Appleton | 9 |
| GRB | Austin Straubel International Airport | Green Bay | 8 |
| CWA | Central Wisconsin Airport | Wassau | 5 |
| MQT | Sawyer International Airport | Gwinn | 3 |
| LSE | La Crosse Municipal Airport | La Crosse | 3 |
| RHI | Rhinelander Oneida County Airport | Rhinelander | 2 |
| IMT | Ford Airport | Iron Mountain | 2 |
| CMX | Houghton County Memorial Airport | Hancock | 1 |
| EAU | Chippewa Valley Regional Airport | Eau Claire | 1 |
| ESC | Delta County Airport | Escanaba | 1 |
| MNM | Menominee Regional Airport | Macon | 0 |
| AUW | Wausau Downtown Airport | Wausau | 0 |
| ENW | Kenosha Regional Airport | Kenosha | 0 |
| OSH | Wittman Regional Airport | Oshkosh | 0 |
| EGV | Eagle River Union Airport | Eagle River | 0 |
| ARV | Lakeland-Noble F. Lee Memorial field | Minocqua - Woodruff | 0 |
| VOK | Volk Field | Camp Douglas | 0 |
| MWC | Lawrence J Timmerman Airport | Milwaukee | 0 |
| JVL | Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport | Janesville | 0 |
| RAC | John H Batten Airport | Racine | 0 |
| LNR | Tri-County Regional Airport | Lone Rock | 0 |
| MFI | Marshfield Municipal Airport | Marshfield | 0 |
| ISW | Alexander Field South Wood County Airport | Wisconsin Rapids | 0 |
| FLD | Fond du Lac County Airport | Fond du Lac | 0 |
| STE | Stevens Point Municipal Airport | Stevens Point | 0 |
| SBM | Sheboygan County Memorial Airport | Sheboygan | 0 |
| ETB | West Bend Municipal Airport | WEST BEND | 0 |
| PCD | Prairie Du Chien Municipal Airport | Prairie du Chien | 0 |
About this list
Wisconsin's airport list is built by taking every US airport in the source dataset, computing the great-circle distance from each airport to all 52 state centroids, and grouping the airport under the closest one. Every state ends up with a populated page that way, including the small states that share their nearest international gateway with a neighbour. The flip side is that a handful of airports very close to a state border get filed under the neighbouring side.
The departures column reflects the number of distinct scheduled routes recorded against each airport in the OpenFlights routes table. A high count usually indicates a hub or focus city for one or more carriers; a low count typically points to seasonal or single-carrier service. For an authoritative real-time view, always confirm schedules with the operating airline.
Connecting onward
Most travelers in Wisconsin reach long-haul destinations by connecting through a larger national or international hub. On any airport page below, the destinations table links straight through to the destination airport, where you can repeat the drill-down to see how onward connections fan out from there. Browsing this way gives you a feel for how a state plugs into the wider US and global network. Even small airports usually sit one or two hops away from any major world city.