Minnesota State Highway 22

Minnesota State Highway 22 (MN 22) is a 166.325-mile-long (267.674 km) highway in south-central and central Minnesota, which runs from Winnebago County Road R50 at the Iowa state line near Kiester and continues north to its northern terminus at its intersection with State Highway 23 in Richmond, west of St. Cloud.

Trunk Highway 22
MN 22 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by MnDOT
Length	166.325 mi[1] (267.674 km)
Existed	1920[2]–present
Major junctions
South end	CR R50 at the Minnesota – Iowa state line
	I-90 near Wells and Kiester MN 109 at Wells MN 30 at Mapleton US 14 at Mankato US 169 / MN 99 at St. Peter MN 5 / MN 19 at Gaylord US 212 at Glencoe MN 7 / MN 15 at Hutchinson US 12 / MN 24 at Litchfield MN 55 at Eden Valley
North end	MN 23 at Richmond
Location
Counties	Faribault, Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Nicollet, Sibley, McLeod, Meeker, Stearns
Highway system
Minnesota Trunk Highways Interstate U.S. State Legislative routes ← MN 21 → MN 23

Route description

MN 22 concurrent with US 169 and MN 99 in St. Peter

State Highway 22 serves as a north–south route between Wells, Mankato, St. Peter, Gaylord, Glencoe, Hutchinson, Litchfield, and Richmond.

Highway 22 parallels State Highway 15 throughout its route. Highway 22 also intersects with Highway 15 at Hutchinson.

The route crosses the Minnesota River between St. Peter and Kasota.

Highway 22 is built as a four-lane divided highway on the east side of Mankato.

The southern terminus for Highway 22 is at the Iowa state line, near Kiester, where Highway 22 becomes Winnebago County Road R50 (140th Avenue) upon crossing the state line.

History

State Highway 22 was authorized in 1920 from St. Peter to Paynesville.[3] In 1934, it was extended south to the Iowa state line, and its northernmost section between Eden Valley and Paynesville became part of State Highway 55.

The section of Highway 22 between Mankato and St. Peter follows the original route of U.S. Highway 169. When the parallel route west of the Minnesota River was first completed in the late 1950s, it originally carried the Highway 22 designation for a few years until it was redesignated U.S. 169 and Highway 22 reverted to its original alignment.[2]

From 1934 to 1961, the northern terminus for Highway 22 was at its intersection with State Highway 55 in Eden Valley. The Highway 22 designation was extended north to Richmond in 1961.[2] Highway 22 will be redone from Mapleton to CO RD 90 just south of Mankato starting March 27, 2017, with the project finalizing in 2019. It will be a 3 part project, with the first stage being Mapleton to Beauford in 2017. In 2018 from Beauford to CO RD 90. Finally in 2019 the Victory Drive Memorial will be finished.

Highway 22 was paved in its entirety by 1953.[2]

The new alignment section of Highway 22 on the southeast side of Mankato to U.S. Highway 14 was constructed circa 1990.[2]

Major intersections

County	Location	mi[1]	km	Destinations	Notes
Faribault	​	0.000	0.000	CR R50	Continuation into Iowa
	Foster Township	12.072– 12.183	19.428– 19.607	I-90 – Albert Lea, Blue Earth	I-90 Exit 138
	Wells	18.270	29.403	MN 109 west – Airport	Southern end of MN 109 overlap
		18.444	29.683	MN 109 east – Alden	Northern end of MN 109 overlap
Blue Earth	Mapleton Township	32.475	52.263	MN 30 east – New Richland	Southern end of MN 30 overlap
	Mapleton	35.062	56.427	MN 30 west – Amboy	Northern end of MN 30 overlap
	Mankato	50.560	81.368	MN 83 east – St. Clair
		52.563– 52.658	84.592– 84.745	US 14 / MN 60	Interchange
Nicollet	St. Peter	64.074	103.117	US 169 / MN 99	Southern end of US 169 / MN 99 overlap
				MN 99 – Le Center	Northern end of MN 99 overlap
		65.934	106.110	US 169	Northern end of US 169 overlap
	New Sweden Township	79.597	128.099	MN 111 – Nicollet
Sibley	Gaylord	89.846	144.593	MN 5 / MN 19	Eastern end of MN 5 / MN 19 overlap
		89.987	144.820	MN 5 / MN 19	Western end of MN 5 / MN 19 overlap
McLeod	Glencoe Township	103.338	166.306	US 212 west – Brownton	Western end of US 212 overlap
	Glencoe	106.633	171.609	US 212 east – Minneapolis	Eastern end of US 212 overlap
	Hutchinson	121.192	195.040	MN 7 east – Silver Lake	Eastern end of MN 7 overlap
		122.120	196.533	MN 15
	Acoma Township	129.945	209.126	MN 7 west – Cosmos, Montevideo	Western end of MN 7 overlap
Meeker	Litchfield	143.080	230.265	US 12 east	Southern end of US 12 overlap
				MN 24 – Kimball
	Litchfield Township	145.125	233.556	US 12 west – Willmar	Northern end of US 12 overlap
	Eden Valley	156.901	252.508	MN 55 – Kimball, Paynesville
Stearns	Richmond	167.063	268.862	MN 23 – Cold Spring, Roscoe
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Concurrency terminus

References

1. "Statewide Trunk Logpoint Listing" (PDF). Minnesota Department of Transportation. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 14, 2012. Retrieved December 24, 2011.
2. Riner, Steve. "Details of Routes 1-25". The Unofficial Minnesota Highways Page. Retrieved February 24, 2007.
3. Minnesota State Legislature (2010). "§ 161.114, Constitutional Trunk Highways". Minnesota Statutes. Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes. Retrieved October 9, 2010.