Minnesota State Highway 60
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| Trunk Highway 60 |
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| Length: | 219 mi[1] (352 km) | ||||||||
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| Formed: | 1933[1] | ||||||||
| West end: |  IA 60 in Bigelow |
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| East end: |  WIS 25 in Wabasha |
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| Major cities: | Zumbrota, Faribault, Mankato, North Mankato, Lake Crystal, Madelia, St. James, Mountain Lake, Windom, Worthington | ||||||||
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Minnesota State Highway 60 is a highway in Minnesota which runs from the Iowa border (IA 60) in Bigelow to the Mississippi River in Wabasha. It is the only state highway which goes from one border to another in Minnesota. Highway 60 goes in a general southwest-to-northeast direction.
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[edit] Route Description
Between Bigelow and North Mankato, the highway is a four lane divided expressway between Worthington and Windom, around Mountain Lake, and from west of St. James to North Mankato. It overlaps U.S. Route 59 south of and into Worthington, U.S. Route 71 in Windom, Minnesota State Highway 4 and Minnesota State Highway 30 near St. James, Minnesota State Highway 15 near Madelia and U.S. Route 169 in the Mankato area. In North Mankato, Highway 60 moves from a concurrency with US 169 to another one with U.S. Route 14.
From its concurrency with US 14 in North Mankato, Highway 60 goes east with US 14 on a 4 lane expressway until just past Eagle Lake, and exits to go briefly north to Madison Lake, then northeast towards Faribault. It is a two lane highway at this point and for most of the rest of its way to Wabasha. In Faribault, it goes east towards Zumbrota where it intersects U.S. Route 52. It briefly overlaps US 52 around Zumbrota on a 4 lane expressway, and then exits to go east-northeast towards Wabasha. In Wabasha, it crosses the Mississippi River on the Wabasha-Nelson Bridge and becomes WIS 25 in Wisconsin.
[edit] History
Highway 60 was formed in 1934 by connecting three Constitutional Route segments together. This formed a nearly border-to-border state highway, with its original termini at current US 59 in Worthington and US 61 at Wabasha. The road was extended to the Iowa border in 1937, and was authorized onto the bridge to Wisconsin in 1943. The last gravel segment on this road was paved by the 1960s. The expressway segments from St. James to Lake Crystal in 1980, and expressway from Worthington to Windom completed 1997.
[edit] Communities along the route
[edit] Major Intersections/Exit List
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[edit] External links
- ^ a b Riner, Steve. Details of Routes 51-75. The Unofficial Minnesota Highways Page. Retrieved on 2006-12-16.
