County roads in Hennepin County, Minnesota

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Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States maintains a number of county highways, many of them county state-aid highways (CSAH). This includes a number of streets through the city of Minneapolis.

1 1-25
2 26-50
3 51-75
4 76-100
5 101 and up
6 References

[edit] 1-25

County Road 1 (CSAH) serves Bloomington and Eden Prairie. On its east end, it starts as 24th Avenue South, adjacent to the Mall of America, and then continues as Old Shakopee Road for the rest of its route through the south side of Bloomington. Old Shakopee Road was once an Indian trail connecting Fort Snelling with Shakopee. Many of the structures in Bloomington's history were built on Old Shakopee Road, including the town hall (1892), the Baillif hotel and store, and a Grange hall.^[1] On the western border of Bloomington, County Road 1 turns north, follows U.S. Route 169 for a short distance, and then becomes Pioneer Trail, crossing Eden Prairie to the Carver County line.

County Road 2 (CSAH) is Penn Ave. N. in north Minneapolis from Interstate 394 to 44th Ave. N.

County Road 3 (CSAH) begins in Minneapolis as Lake Street. Just west of Lake Calhoun, it turns south and follows Excelsior Boulevard. (The north branch of this "Y"-shaped intersection is Minnetonka Boulevard, or County Road 5.) Excelsior Boulevard continues westward through St. Louis Park, Hopkins, and into Minnetonka, ending at County Road 101, just east of its namesake town of Excelsior. Lake Street was originally used as a path for soldiers traveling from Fort Snelling to Lake Calhoun. In 1856, the Minnesota Territorial Legislature established a territorial road "from Minneapolis to Glencoe via Lake Calhoun, near Bass Lake, to John P. Miller's, and then by the way of Excelsior to Glencoe, to be known as the Glencoe Road." This was known as Territorial Road #3. Pioneers used this road as an oxcart trail to travel to Carver County and McLeod County. In 1935, Minnesota State Highway 7 was built north of Excelsior Boulevard, and in 1943, control passed from state to county maintenance. In 1959, much of Excelsior Boulevard was designated as part of U.S. Route 212.^[2]

County Road 4 (CSAH) runs along Eden Prairie Road from southern Minnetonka to Eden Prairie to County Road 1, where a newly completed section of road connects County 4 to Spring Road, eliminating an overlapping stretch with County 1. County 4 then follows Spring Road to U.S. 212.

County Road 5 (CSAH) is divided into 2 disjointed sections. The western section is Minnetonka Blvd. from County Road 101 in western Minnetonka to the junction with County 25 and France Ave. in St. Louis Park. The eastern section is Franklin Ave. in Minneapolis from Lyndale Ave. S. to East River Road, where County 5 follows 27th Ave. S. to University Ave. S.E. Previous sections of County 5 turned over to municipal control include a section from the western terminus of the western segment of County 5 to Vine Hill Road in Deephaven, following Vine Hill Road to State Hwy. 7, and a section that connected the 2 disjoint sections of County Road 5, passing between Cedar Lake and Lake Of The Isles in Minneapolis.

[edit] 26-50

County Road 39 (CSAH) serves Eden Prairie on Valley View Road between CR 60 (Mitchell Road) and U.S. Highway 212 (Flying Cloud Drive). It crosses Interstate 494 at exit 12.

[edit] 51-75

County Road 61 runs north-south and has several names along its route:

From its northern junction with County Road 130 in Maple Grove, it is known as Hemlock Lane.
Just north of its junction with County Road 10 (Bass Lake Road), just north of the boundary with Plymouth it becomes Northwest Boulevard and continues under that name until its junction with Minnesota State Highway 55.
Between Highway 55 and the boundary with Minnetonka it is known as Xenium Lane.
Between the Minnetonka boundary and County Road 5 (Minnetonka Boulevard), it is known as Plymouth Road.
South of Minnetonka Boulevard, it changes names again to Shady Oak Road and continues into Eden Prairie. County Road 61 ends at U.S. Route 212, but Shady Oak Road itself continues for a short distance into the "Golden Triangle" area and ends at Valley View Road.^[3]
When U.S. Route 212 is shifted onto its new alignment through Eden Prairie and Chaska, the old alignment (Flying Cloud Drive) will take on the designation of County Road 61 continuing to its border with Carver County.^[4]

[edit] 76-100

County Road 81 (CSAH) runs from Rogers to Washington Ave. N. in Minneapolis, turned over to Hennepin County along with part of Highway 101 in the 1988 highway swap for what is now U.S. Highway 169 and Highway 62.

[edit] 101 and up

County Road 101 (CSAH) is a segment of State Highway 101 turned over to Hennepin County in segments from County Road 81 to Wayzata in 1988 and from Wayzata to the Carver County border in 1998, where a disjointed southern section of State Highway 101 still exists.

County Road 122 (CSAH) is former Trunk Highway 122 across the Mississippi River on the Washington Avenue Bridge in Minneapolis, and is partly built to freeway standards.

County Road 158 (CSAH) runs between Highway 62 and Highway 100 in Edina, via Gleason Road and Vernon Avenue. It carried U.S. Highway 169 and U.S. Highway 212 until they were moved to Highway 62.^{[citation needed]}

County Road 204 (CSAH) follows Bloomington Road and Hennepin Avenue from Highway 55 into the Fort Snelling Golf Course. Bloomington Road beyond Hennepin Avenue is County Road 205 (non-CSAH).