Minnesota State Highway 28 Explained

State:MN
Type:MN
Route:28
Map Custom:yes
Map Notes:MN 28 highlighted in red
Established:1920
Length Mi:142.324
Length Ref:[1]
Section:114
Direction A:West
Terminus A: at the South Dakota state line near Browns Valley
Junction:
Direction B:East
Terminus B: in Little Falls
Counties:Traverse, Big Stone, Stevens, Pope, Stearns, Todd, Morrison
Previous Type:MN
Previous Route:27
Next Type:MN
Next Route:29

Minnesota State Highway 28 (MN 28) is a 142.324adj=midNaNadj=mid 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

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 14miles 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.[2]

History

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

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.[1]

External links

Highway 28 at the Unofficial Minnesota Highways Page

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Statewide Trunk Logpoint Listing . PDF . Minnesota Department of Transportation . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120914220734/http://www.dot.state.mn.us/roadway/data/reports/logpoint/statelpt.pdf . 2012-09-14 .
  2. Web site: 161.114, Constitutional Trunk Highways . Minnesota Statutes . Office of the Revisor of Statutes, State of Minnesota . 2010 . October 15, 2010.
  3. Map of Trunk Highway System, State of Minnesota . May 1, 1923 . Minnesota Highway Department . McGill-Warner Co. . A-16 through H-14 . December 17, 2018.
  4. 1929 Map of Trunk Highway System, State of Minnesota . April 1, 1929 . Minnesota Highway Department . McGill-Warner Co. . A-16 through H-14 . December 17, 2018.
  5. 1940 Map of Minnesota Trunk Highway System . January 1, 1940 . Advance . Minnesota Highway Department . McGill-Warner Co. . A-16 through H-14 . December 17, 2018.
  6. 1934 Map of Trunk Highway System, State of Minnesota . May 1, 1934 . Minnesota Highway Department . McGill-Warner Co. . G-14 through H-14 . December 17, 2018.
  7. Web site: Construction Project Log Record: Control Section 4902 . Minnesota Department of Transportation . December 17, 2018.