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Minnesota State Highway 1

State highway in Minnesota, United States

Field	Value
state	MN
type	MN
route	1
map
map_custom	yes
map_notes	MN 1 highlighted in red
established	1933
length_mi	345.954
length_ref
direction_a	West
terminus_a	at the Red River in Oslo
*{{jct	state	MN	US	75}} at Warren
*{{Jct	state	MN	US	59	MN	32}} at Thief River Falls
*{{jct	state	MN	MN	219}} near Goodridge
*{{jct	state	MN	MN	89}} at Red Lake
*{{jct	state	MN	US	71	MN	46}} at Northome
*{{jct	state	MN	MN	38}} at Effie
*{{jct	state	MN	MN	65}} at Togo
*{{jct	state	MN	US	53}} at Cook
*{{jct	state	MN	MN	169}} at Ely
direction_b	East
terminus_b	at Illgen City
counties	Marshall, Pennington, Clearwater, Beltrami, Koochiching, Itasca, St. Louis, Lake
previous_type	I
previous_route	694
next_type	US
next_route	2

at Warren
at Thief River Falls
near Goodridge
at Red Lake
at Northome
at Effie
at Togo
at Cook
at Ely

Minnesota State Highway 1 (MN 1) is a state highway across northern Minnesota, United States, which runs from North Dakota Highway 54 (ND 54) at the North Dakota state line (at the Red River in Oslo) and continues east to its eastern terminus at MN 61 at the unincorporated community of Illgen City in Beaver Bay Township on the North Shore of Lake Superior. At 346 mi in length, MN 1 is the longest state route in Minnesota.

Route description

Intersection of MN 1 and MN 169 in Ely, August 2008

MN 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

The route runs concurrently with MN 169 for 26 mi from Vermilion Lake Township (west of Tower) to Ely.

MN 1 also runs concurrently with MN 89 for 28 mi on the southwest side of Red Lake. This is the longest concurrency with another state highway within Minnesota.

History

Most of MN 1 was authorized in 1933, except for a section between U.S. Highway 75 (US 75) and MN 32 at Thief River Falls, which was part of Minnesota Constitutional Route 33 authorized in 1920.

The route was given the MN 1 designation because it was one of the longest trunk highways, and would allow re-use of the MN 1 markers removed from along US 61 and US 65 in 1934.

When it was marked in 1934, it was only paved from US 75 to MN 32 and from MN 169 to Ely.

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

MN 1 still had an unpaved segment in 1996, between US 53 and MN 169 in northern Saint Louis County. At that point it was swapped with paved County Road 22.

Major intersections

References

Riner, Steve. (March 2019). "Details of Routes 1–25". The Unofficial Minnesota Highways Page.
"Session Laws of Minnesota for 1933". Mike Holm, Secretary of State.
{{cite MnDOT map. (1934)
(September 4, 2009). "Trunk Highway Log Point Listing - Construction District 1". [[Minnesota Department of Transportation]].
(September 4, 2009). "Trunk Highway Log Point Listing - Construction District 2". Minnesota Department of Transportation.

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