Minnesota State Highway 1
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| Trunk Highway 1 |
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| Length: | 346 mi (557 km) | ||||||||
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| Formed: | 1933 | ||||||||
| West end: |  ND 54 at the Red River |
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| East end: |  MN-61 in Beaver Bay Township |
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| Major cities: | Ely Tower Cook Northome Red Lake Thief River Falls Warren Oslo |
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Minnesota State Highway 1 is a highway in northwest and northeast Minnesota. At 346-miles in length, it is the longest state route in Minnesota.
This road still had an unpaved segment in 1996, between U.S. 53 and Minnesota 169. At that point it was swapped with paved St. Louis County Road 22.
Minnesota Highway 1 runs from North Dakota Highway 54 at the North Dakota border (near Oslo, Minn.) and continues east to its eastern terminus at the intersection of Minnesota Highway 61 and Minnesota Highway 1 in Beaver Bay Township (near the unincorporated towns of Illgen City and Finland) on the North Shore of Lake Superior.
Minnesota Highway 1 passes through the communities of:
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[edit] Notes
Minnesota Highway 1 serves as an east-west arterial route between Beaver Bay Township, Ely, Tower, Cook, Northome, Red Lake, Thief River Falls, Warren, and Oslo.
Minnesota Highway 1 passes through the counties of:
Minnesota Highway 1 passes through the following forests:
- Finland State Forest in Lake County
- Superior National Forest in Lake and St. Louis counties
- Bear Island State Forest in Lake and St. Louis counties
- Kabetogama State Forest in St. Louis County
- George Washington State Forest in Itasca County
- Koochiching State Forest in Koochiching County
[edit] Concurrencies
- Minnesota Highway 1 overlaps Minnesota Highway 169 for 26-miles from Vermilion Lake Township (west of Tower) to Ely.
- Minnesota Highway 1 overlaps Minnesota Highway 89 for 28-miles on the southwest side of Red Lake. This is the longest concurrency with another state highway within Minnesota.
[edit] Termini
The eastern terminus for Minnesota 1 is its intersection with Minnesota Highway 61 in Beaver Bay Township, immediately northeast of Silver Bay on Lake Superior's North Shore.
The western terminus for Minnesota 1 is at the North Dakota border, near Oslo, Minn., where it becomes North Dakota Highway 54 at the Red River.
[edit] History
Most of Highway 1 was authorized in 1933, except for a section between U.S. 75 and Minnesota Hwy. 32 at Thief River Falls.
The route was given the Highway 1 designation because it was one of the longest trunk highways, and would allow re-use of the Route 1 markers removed from along U.S. 61 and U.S. 65 in 1934.
As recently as 1963, significant portions of Highway 1 were unpaved.
The last unpaved segment of Highway 1 was bypassed in 1996, between U.S. 53 and Minnesota 169. At that point it was swapped with paved St. Louis County Road 22.
[edit] References
- Adam Froehlig (December 1, 2002). Minnesota Highway 1. MN Highway Endings. Accessed August 27, 2004.
- Steve Riner (July 26, 2003). Details of Routes 1-25. Unofficial Minnesota Highways Page. Accessed August 27, 2004.
