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Whitefish Bay · North Shore · Milwaukee County

Towing in Whitefish Bay: Silver Spring Drive, Lake Drive and the 3-ton limit on Santa Monica Boulevard

Whitefish Bay covers about two square miles, and our map shows no repair shop or dealership inside it. So a tow from here always ends somewhere else: all eight Whitefish Bay jobs we completed in the 12 months to October 2026 were tows, and five of them went to Milwaukee. Call (414) 279-5510 with the pickup and the drop-off, and the dispatcher gives you one price and an arrival estimate.

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Posted weight

Santa Monica Boulevard is posted at 3 tons

Twenty-one weight postings are mapped in Whitefish Bay. Twenty of them are on North Santa Monica Boulevard, all at 3 tons, and the last is on North Lydell Avenue.

A tow truck with a car on it weighs far more than three tons. If you are parked on Santa Monica, say so on the call and give the nearest cross street, so the driver can plan which side to come in from. For anything heavier than a car, such as a moving truck or a contractor’s van, the heavy-duty towing page is the place to start.

Crossings and landmarks a driver can find

No neighborhood names are mapped in the village. These are the points that are:

Silver Spring Drive & Santa Monica Boulevard
Signalized. Aurora Health Center and Sendik’s are on the block east of it.
Silver Spring Drive & Lake Drive
Signalized, with Idlewild Avenue joining. Silver Spring Park is further east toward the lake.
Hampton Road and Hampton Avenue
Signals at Santa Monica Boulevard, Marlborough Drive and Oakland Avenue, the last a five-way.
Village Hall
Between Henry Clay Street and Silver Spring Drive, with North Shore Fire Station 4 beside it.
Lakefront parks
Klode Park at the north end; Big Bay Park and Buckley Park off Lake Drive further south.
Sheldon Lubar Stadium
The Whitefish Bay High School field, next to Armory Park.

I-43 touches the west edge of the village on our map, but no exit is mapped inside Whitefish Bay. A freeway breakdown there belongs to the Silver Spring Drive exit, which is on the Glendale page.

Every tow leaves the village, so the mileage is the price

Of our eight Whitefish Bay tows, five were dropped in Milwaukee and one each in Glendale, Butler and Franklin. With no shop mapped inside the village, you choose the destination: your mechanic, a dealer, a body shop or your own driveway elsewhere.

The rate is $85 for the hook-up and $4 per loaded mile. Measured examples: $105 for 5 miles, $130 for 10, $200 for 25. A tow at night costs the same. The towing cost breakdown shows how the miles are counted, and the towing page lists what the dispatcher will ask.

All-wheel-drive and low-slung cars ride on a flatbed. Say which you have before the truck is sent.

Whitefish Bay questions

Who do I call about a crash or a car that was towed in Whitefish Bay?

For a crash, 911. Our map does not show a police station or a hospital inside the village boundary, so we cannot point you to a building; the 911 dispatcher routes the call. If your car was towed and you think we have it, call (414) 279-5510. Our storage lot is at 206 W Layton Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53207.

Is my car in the Milwaukee tow lot?

Only if it was towed inside the City of Milwaukee on a city order. The Milwaukee tow lot guide explains how to check and what release costs.

The car is in a narrow driveway off Lake Drive. Can you get it out?

Tell the dispatcher which way the car is facing, whether it rolls, and how wide the driveway is. Those three answers decide which truck comes and how it backs in. If the car slid off onto a lawn or snowbank, that is a winch-out: $110 when it is about 8 feet from the pavement in mud or snow.

Do you charge after a crash the same way?

An accident tow is priced by distance too. For a car with front-end damage, 10 miles is $135. Accident towing covers insurance billing.

Whitefish Bay’s neighbors

Shorewood is the village to the south and Fox Point the one to the north, both along Lake Drive. Glendale is west, around Bayshore and I-43, and Milwaukee is beyond Shorewood. See service areas for the rest.

Pickup street and drop-off address

Since the car is leaving the village either way, having the destination ready gets you the full price on the first call.

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