Minnesota State Highway 110

Trunk Highway 110
Route information
Maintained by Mn/DOT
Length:	5.245 mi[2] (8.441 km)
Existed:	1965[1] – present
Major junctions
West end:	MN 55 at Mendota Heights
	MN 13 at Mendota Heights I-35E at Mendota Heights MN 149 at Mendota Heights MN 3 at Sunfish Lake, Inver Grove Hts.
East end:	I-494 at Inver Grove Heights
Location
Counties:	Dakota
Highway system
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Minnesota State Highway 110 is a short connector highway in Minnesota, which runs from its interchange with State Highway 55 in Mendota Heights and continues east to its eastern terminus at its interchange with Interstate 494 in Inver Grove Heights, south of downtown Saint Paul.

Highway 110 is 5 miles (8.0 km) in length.

Route description

Highway 110 serves as an east–west arterial route between Mendota Heights, Mendota, West St. Paul, Sunfish Lake, and Inver Grove Heights. The route is a four lane divided highway and heavily stoplighted.

Highway 110 has a major junction with Interstate 35E in the center of Mendota Heights. The route also has a junction with Robert Street / Robert Trail (State Highway 3) in Inver Grove Heights.

Highway 110 parallels Interstate 494 throughout its route in Dakota County. Highway 110 also has an interchange with Interstate 494 at its eastern terminus in Inver Grove Heights.

The western terminus of Highway 110 is located near the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers at the Mendota Bridge.

The Sibley House Historic Site museum in Mendota, overlooking Fort Snelling, is located immediately north of the junction of Highways 110 and 13. The museum is on Highway 13.

History

The present day Highway 110 was marked in 1965. Previously, this same route was known as part of Highway 100 from 1934 to 1965.

This route was originally part of the Highway 100 Beltway circling the entire Twin Cities during the 1940s and 1950s.^[1] It was paved before 1940 and constructed as a divided highway by 1953.

Highway 110 was numbered as a derivative of Highway 100 in 1965.

Before completion of the I-494 freeway in 1985, I-494 had a missing link during the previous twenty years. Highway 110 had carried all I-494 traffic from its beginning at State Highway 55 in Mendota Heights, to the then completed portion of I-494 beginning again at Babcock Trail in Inver Grove Heights. There was a traffic signal at this junction (where Highways 3, 52, 110, and 494 all intersected) for many years following completion of the nearby Lafayette Freeway (then marked Highway 3, now U.S. 52). An interchange has since been constructed replacing this traffic signal.

Major intersections

The entire route is in Dakota County.

Location	Mile[2]	Destinations	Notes
Mendota Heights	0.000– 0.041	MN 55	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
	0.384– 0.390	MN 13
		CR 43 (Lexington Avenue)
	1.202– 1.549	I-35E	Interchange
	2.039	MN 149 (Dodd Road)
	2.965	CR 63 (Delaware Avenue)
Sunfish Lake	3.724	CR 14 (Mendota Road)
Inver Grove Heights	4.095– 4.311	MN 3 (South Robert Trail)	Interchange
	4.755– 5.140	I-494 US 52 south	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi      Concurrency terminus •      Closed/Former •      Incomplete access •      Unopened

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Riner, Steve. "Details of Routes 101-149". The Unofficial Minnesota Highways Page. http://www.steve-riner.com/mnhighways/r101-149.htm#110. Retrieved July 22, 2009. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "Trunk Highway Log Point Listing - Construction District 5" (PDF). Minnesota Department of Transportation. August 20, 2010. http://www.dot.state.mn.us/roadway/data/reports/logpoint/metrolpt.pdf. Retrieved November 19, 2010.