Minnesota State Highway 28

Route map:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Trunk Highway 28 marker

Trunk Highway 28

Map
MN 28 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by MnDOT
Length142.324 mi[2] (229.048 km)
Existed1920[1]–present
Major junctions
West end SD 10 at the South Dakota state line near Browns Valley
Major intersections
East end MN 27 / CR 52 in Little Falls
Location
CountryUnited States
StateMinnesota
CountiesTraverse, Big Stone, Stevens, Pope, Stearns, Todd, Morrison
Highway system
  • Minnesota Trunk Highway System
← MN 27→ MN 29

Minnesota State Highway 28 (MN 28) is a 142.324-mile-long (229.048 km) state highway in west-central and central Minnesota, which travels from South Dakota Highway 10 at the South Dakota state line near Browns Valley and continues east to its intersection with the former route of U.S. Highway 10 (US 10) in Little Falls.

Route description[edit]

MN 28 serves as an east–west route between Browns Valley, Morris, Glenwood, Sauk Centre, and Little Falls.

The western terminus for MN 28 is at the South Dakota state line in Browns Valley, at the Little Minnesota River, where MN 28 becomes South Dakota Highway 10 upon crossing the state line.

MN 28 parallels MN 27 throughout its route until MN 27 enters Wheaton, Minnesota and then follows Mud Lake and Lake Traverse, heading South/Southwest to Browns Valley, Minnesota where it connects with MN 28.

The Sam Brown Memorial State Wayside Park is located on MN 28 in Traverse County at Browns Valley.

The highway overlaps MN 27 for the last 14 miles (23 km) of its route, until its terminus in Little Falls at the former alignment of US 10, which is now a city street.

MN 28 is legally defined as Constitutional Route 28 in the Minnesota Statutes.[1]

History[edit]

State Highway 28 was established November 2, 1920, traveling from the South Dakota border at Browns Valley to Little Falls.[1]

By 1923, the road was mostly graveled except at its extreme western and eastern ends.[3] The remainder was graveled by 1929.[4]

The roadway was paved throughout the 1930s and was paved in full by 1940.[5]

In 1934, the newly-marked State Highway 27 was overlapped with the eastern end of the route.[6] The eastern terminus of Highway 28 remained at U.S. 10; however, when the bypass of 10 around Little Falls was built in the mid-1970s,[7] 28 was not extended across the river and its terminus remains at Lindbergh Drive.[2]

Major intersections[edit]

CountyLocationmi[2]kmDestinationsNotes
TraverseFolsom Township0.0000.000
 SD 10 west – Sisseton		Continuation into South Dakota
0.8741.407
 MN 27 east – Wheaton		Western terminus of MN 27
Big StoneBrowns Valley Township9.25114.888
 MN 7 east / Minnesota River Valley Scenic Byway – Ortonville		Western terminus of MN 7
Graceville22.60636.381 US 75 – Wheaton, Ortonville
StevensMorris48.05377.334
 MN 9 south – Benson		Western end of MN 9 concurrency
48.56178.151
 MN 9 north – Breckenridge		Eastern end of MN 9 concurrency
Morris Township50.60181.434 US 59 – Appleton, Elbow Lake
PopeStarbuck67.768109.062

 MN 29 south (Main Street south) / MN 114 north (Main Street north)		Western end of MN 29 concurrency
Long Beach74.486119.874 CSAH 24 / Glacial Ridge Trail
74.834120.434Golf Course Road / Glacial Ridge Trail
Glenwood76.276122.754

 MN 29 north (Franklin Street North) / MN 104 south (Franklin Street South)		Eastern end of MN 29 concurrency
77.429–
77.550		124.610–
124.805		 MN 55 – Elbow Lake, BelgradeInterchange
StearnsSauk Centre Township101.723163.707
 US 71 south – Willmar		Southern end of US 71 concurrency
Sauk Centre104.505–
104.669		168.184–
168.448		 I-94 (US 52) – Alexandria, St. CloudInterchange; I-94 exit 127
104.539168.239 CSAH 72 / CR 186Former US 52
Sauk Centre Township104.713168.519
 US 71 north – Long Prairie		Northern end of US 71 concurrency
ToddGrey Eagle116.338187.228 MN 287
MorrisonCuldrum Township130.513210.040
 MN 27 west – Long Prairie		Western end of MN 27 concurrency
Pike Creek Township142.422229.206
 MN 238 south – Albany		Northern terminus of MN 238
Little Falls144.429232.436
 MN 27 east / Great River Road (National Route) – Lindbergh State Park, Lindbergh Historic Site, Weyerhaeuser Museum		Eastern terminus; eastern end of MN 27 concurrency; GRR north is former US 10 (Lindbergh Drive)
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "161.114, Constitutional Trunk Highways". Minnesota Statutes. Office of the Revisor of Statutes, State of Minnesota. 2010. Retrieved October 15, 2010.
  2. ^ a b c "Statewide Trunk Logpoint Listing" (PDF). Minnesota Department of Transportation. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 14, 2012.
  3. ^ Map of Trunk Highway System, State of Minnesota (Map). Cartography by McGill-Warner Co. Minnesota Highway Department. May 1, 1923. § A-16 through H-14. Retrieved December 17, 2018.
  4. ^ 1929 Map of Trunk Highway System, State of Minnesota (Map). Cartography by McGill-Warner Co. Minnesota Highway Department. April 1, 1929. § A-16 through H-14. Retrieved December 17, 2018.
  5. ^ 1940 Map of Minnesota Trunk Highway System (Map) (Advance ed.). Cartography by McGill-Warner Co. Minnesota Highway Department. January 1, 1940. § A-16 through H-14. Retrieved December 17, 2018.
  6. ^ 1934 Map of Trunk Highway System, State of Minnesota (Map). Cartography by McGill-Warner Co. Minnesota Highway Department. May 1, 1934. § G-14 through H-14. Retrieved December 17, 2018.
  7. ^ "Construction Project Log Record: Control Section 4902" (PDF). Minnesota Department of Transportation. Retrieved December 17, 2018.

External links[edit]

KML file (edit • help)
Template:Attached KML/Minnesota State Highway 28
KML is from Wikidata

Highway 28 at the Unofficial Minnesota Highways Page

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Minnesota_State_Highway_28&oldid=1210668311"