Minnesota State Highway 1

Trunk Highway 1
Route information
Maintained by Mn/DOT
Length:	345.954 mi[2] (556.759 km)
Existed:	1933[1] – present
Major junctions
West end:	ND 54 at the Red River, the Minnesota — North Dakota state line
	US 75 at Warren US 59 at Thief River Falls MN 89 at Red Lake US 71 / MN 46 at Northome MN 38 at Effie MN 65 at Togo US 53 at Cook MN 169 at Ely
East end:	MN 61 at Illgen City
Location
Counties:	Marshall, Pennington, Clearwater, Beltrami, Koochiching, Itasca, Saint Louis, Lake
Highway system
Minnesota Trunk Highways Interstate • U.S. • State Inter-County • County roads • Legislative routes ← I-694 US 2 →

Minnesota State Highway 1 is a highway in northwest and northeast Minnesota, which runs from North Dakota Highway 54 at the North Dakota state line (at the Red River in Oslo) and continues east to its eastern terminus at its intersection with Minnesota Highway 61 at the unincorporated town of Illgen City in Beaver Bay Township on the North Shore of Lake Superior. At 346 miles (557 km) in length, Highway 1 is the longest state route in Minnesota.^[1]

Route description

State Highway 1 serves as an east–west route between Oslo, Warren, Thief River Falls, Red Lake, Northome, Cook, Tower, Ely, and Beaver Bay Township.

The roadway passes through the following forests:

• Finland State Forest in Lake County
• Superior National Forest in Lake and Saint Louis counties
• Bear Island State Forest in Lake and Saint Louis counties
• Kabetogama State Forest in Saint Louis County
• George Washington State Forest in Itasca County
• Koochiching State Forest in Koochiching County

Intersection of Highways 1 and 169 in Ely

The route runs concurrent with State Highway 169 for 26 miles (42 km) from Vermilion Lake Township (west of Tower) to Ely.

State Highway 1 also runs concurrent with State Highway 89 for 28 miles (45 km) on the southwest side of Red Lake. This is the longest concurrency with another state highway within Minnesota.

History

Most of State Highway 1 was authorized in 1933,^[3] except for a section between U.S. 75 and State Highway 32 at Thief River Falls which was part of Minnesota Constitutional Route 33 authorized in 1920.^[1]

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.^[1]

When it was marked in 1934, it was only paved from U.S. 75 to Highway 32 and from Highway 169 to Ely.^[4]

As recently as 1963, significant portions of Highway 1 were unpaved.

Highway 1 still had an unpaved segment in 1996, between U.S. 53 and State Highway 169 in northern Saint Louis County. At that point it was swapped with paved Saint Louis County Road 22.^[1]

Major intersections

County	Location	Mile[5][2]	Destinations	Notes
Red River of the North		0.000	ND 54
Marshall	Oak Park Township	1.554	MN 220	West end of MN 220 concurrency
	Alvarado	6.555	MN 220	East end of MN 220 concurrency
	Warren	17.050	US 75
Pennington	Thief River Falls	44.457	US 59	West end of US 59 concurrency
		45.771	US 59 MN 32	East end of US 59 concurrency South end of MN 32 concurrency
		46.118	MN 32	North end of MN 32 concurrency
	Goodridge Township	63.367	MN 219
Clearwater	No major junctions
Beltrami	Red Lake Indian Reservation	89.331	MN 89	North end of MN 89 concurrency
		116.960	MN 89	South end of MN 89 concurrency
	Cormant Township	141.331	MN 72	West end of MN 72 concurrency
	Shooks	146.400	MN 72	East end of MN 72 concurrency
Koochiching	Northome (unorganized territory)	151.288	US 71	South end of US 71 concurrency
	Northome	154.276	US 71	North end of US 71 concurrency
		154.564	MN 46
	Northome (unorganized territory)	178.128	MN 6	North end of MN 6 concurrency
Itasca	Effie (unorganized territory)	180.452	MN 6	South end of MN 6 concurrency
	Effie	186.656	MN 38
	Carpenter Township	211.369	MN 65	West end of MN 65 concurrency
		215.424	MN 65	East end of MN 65 concurrency
St. Louis	Linden Grove	229.223	MN 73
	Field Township	236.245	US 53	North end of US 53 concurrency
	Sherman Corner	244.377	US 53	South end of US 53 concurrency
	Peyla	258.848	MN 169	West end of MN 169 concurrency
	Tower	263.159	MN 135
	Ely	286.208	MN 169	East end of MN 169 concurrency
Lake	Illgen City	347.340	MN 61
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi      Concurrency terminus •      Closed/Former •      Incomplete access •      Unopened

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} Steve Riner (July 26, 2003). Details of Routes 1-25. Unofficial Minnesota Highways Page. Accessed August 27, 2004.
2. ^ ^{a b} "Trunk Highway Log Point Listing - Construction District 1" (PDF). Minnesota Department of Transportation. September 4, 2009. http://www.dot.state.mn.us/roadway/data/reports/logpoint/d1.pdf. Retrieved August 21, 2010. 
3. ^ "Chapter 440-H.F. No. 2000", Session Laws of Minnesota for 1933 (Mike Holm, Secretary of State): pp. 881-897 
4. ^ Minnesota Highway Department (May 1, 1934). 1934 Map of Trunk Highway System, State of Minnesota (Map). http://reflections.mndigital.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/mdt&CISOPTR=210&DMSCALE=25&DMWIDTH=800&DMHEIGHT=800&DMX=1418&DMY=484&DMMODE=viewer&DMTEXT=&REC=15&DMTHUMB=1&DMROTATE=0. Retrieved November 16, 2010. 
5. ^ "Trunk Highway Log Point Listing - Construction District 2" (PDF). Minnesota Department of Transportation. September 4, 2009. http://www.dot.state.mn.us/roadway/data/reports/logpoint/d2.pdf. Retrieved August 21, 2010. 

External links

• Minnesota Highway 1, MN Highway Endings.