Minnesota State Highway 23
Pipestone County Lincoln County Lyon County Yellow Medicine County Chippewa County Renville County Kandiyohi County Stearns County Benton County Mille Lacs County Kanabec County Pine County Carlton County St. Louis County
Minnesota State Route 23 is a trending northeast- southwest highway in the U.S. state of Minnesota. With a length of 627 km, the road is the second longest state highway in Minnesota. The milestones include the eastern end westwards.
The road connects indirectly Duluth on Lake Superior about St. Cloud, Willmar and Marshall to Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
The line forms to the Minnesota coextending highways U.S. Highway 52 and Interstate 94, a large X. This run I-94/US-52 diagopnal from northwest to southeast and connect Fargo, North Dakota with Minneapolis -St. Paul and northwestern Iowa. The highways intersect in St. Cloud.
Route
Sections have been expanded to four-lane highways, including a 14 -km-long section at Marshall and the sections between Willmar and New London, and between Richmond and Waite Park ( Saint Cloud ). In the vicinity of Willmar Route 23 runs together with U.S. Highway 71
The State Route performs the following counties:
- Rock County
- Pipestone County
- Lincoln County
- Lyon County
- Yellow Medicine County
- Chippewa County
- Renville County
- Kandiyohi County
- Stearns County
- Benton County
- Mille Lacs County
- Kanabec County
- Pine County
- Carlton County
- St. Louis County
State Route 23 crosses the Minnesota River at Granite Falls and the Mississippi River at the DeSoto Bridge in St. Cloud.
In St. Cloud State Route named Division Street and in Duluth bears the street name Grand Avenue and Commonwealth Avenue.
Parks and Monuments
On the road are the following parks and monuments:
- Split Rock Creek State Park in Pipestone County
- Pipestone National Monument.
- Camden State Park in Lyon County at the Redwood River.
- Banning State Park in Pine County on the Kettle River.
Evergreen Memorial Scenic Drive
80 km of the National Road in Pine County, Carlton County and St. Louis County is officially known as Veterans Evergreen Memorial Scenic Drive. This is the section between Interstate 35 in Gary - New Duluth Askov and the district. This section allows views of the Banning State Park, the valley of the Saint Louis River and the nearby Jay Cooke State Park.
Wisconsin
The Minnesota State Route 23 illustrates the rare in the United States case in which a State Route leads through the territory of another state. On the southern edge of Duluth the route crosses the Saint Louis River and extends several hundred meters long in Wisconsin. On some maps, this section is called " WISC -23 ", although in southern Wisconsin, a Wisconsin State Route 23 exists. There are no signs that indicates that to cross the state lines in resort.
Settlements on the route
- Booge
- Jasper
- Ihlen
- Pipestone
- Holland
- Ruthton
- Florence
- Russell
- Lynd
- Marshall
- Green Valley
- Cottonwood
- Hanley Falls
- Granite Falls
- Maynard
- Clara City
- Raymond
- Willmar
- Spicer
- New London
- Paynesville
- Roscoe
- Richmond
- Cold Spring
- Rockville
- Waite Park
- St. Cloud
- Foley
- Ronneby
- Foreston
- Milaca
- Buck
- Ogilvie
- Mora
- Quamba
- Brook Park
- Hinckley
- Sandstone
- Askov
- Bruno
- Kerrick
- Duquette
- Nickerson
- Holyoke
- Duluth
History
The highway was established in 1920 between Hinckley and Marshall, the rest of the trail was dedicated in 1933.
Various sections of the track were provided from the 1930s to the 1950s, with a solid road surface, on its full length, this was achieved in 1961.
The section from the current south end until after Marshall was recognized until 1940 as the Minnesota Highway 39 and the current route between Marshall and Willmar Minnesota was then Highway 17 Up to this point leads to the original route from New London west on to Benson. This was then to Minnesota Highway 17 and since the 1960s, part of the Minnesota State Route 9
State Route 23 was originally Sandstone to the west of Askov. This stretch was rededicated in 1946 to the Minnesota State Route 123.
After the completion of Interstate 35 resulted in the state of the State Route 23 between Hinckley and Sandstone along with I - 35th
From 1934 to 1963, the crossing was with the then U.S. Highway 61 and U.S. Highway 2 in West Duluth the northeastern terminus of State Route 23 Between 1963 and 1997, leading the State Route 23 on up to Duluth, where the endpoint of the segment at the State Route 61 was on the 60th Avenue East. In 1997, the official end point of the highway was moved to the intersection with Interstate 35 at Grand Avenue in Duluth.
The four-lane bypass of Willmar in the course of Highway 23 ( in this section with Highway 71 combined ) was first planned in the 1960s. A financial crisis in the early 1980s delayed the expansion. The bypass was first built only two lanes and put into operation in 1985. The northbound carriageway leading was not completed until 2001.
The motorway-like sections of Spicer to New London and from Richmond to Waite Park ( St. Cloud ) were released in 2005.
The bridge over the Mississippi River in St. Cloud was demolished after the collapse of the I-35W Mississippi River bridge and is rebuilt after on the structure similar defects were found, which led to the bridge collapse in Minneapolis. The new building will be completed in late 2008 or early 2009.
2009, the four-lane bypass of Paynesville is built.