Minnesota State Highway 28

Minnesota State Highway 28 (MN 28) is a 142.324-mile-long (229.048 km) state highway in west-central and central Minnesota, which travels from South Dakota Highway 10 at the South Dakota state line near Browns Valley and continues east to its intersection with the former route of U.S. Highway 10 (US 10) in Little Falls.

Trunk Highway 28
MN 28 highlighted in red
Route information
Defined by MS § 161.114()
Maintained by MnDOT
Length	142.324 mi[1] (229.048 km)
Existed	1920[2]–present
Major junctions
West end	SD 10 at the South Dakota state line
	MN 27 near Browns Valley MN 7 near Beardsley US 75 in Graceville US 59 / MN 9 in Morris MN 29 / MN 55 in Glenwood I-94 / US 71 / US 52 in Sauk Centre MN 287 in Grey Eagle
East end	MN 27 / CR 52 in Little Falls
Location
Counties	Traverse, Big Stone, Stevens, Pope, Stearns, Todd, Morrison
Highway system
Minnesota Trunk Highways Interstate U.S. State Legislative routes ← MN 27 → MN 29

Route description

MN 28 serves as an east–west route between Browns Valley, Morris, Glenwood, Sauk Centre, and Little Falls.

The western terminus for MN 28 is at the South Dakota state line in Browns Valley, at the Little Minnesota River, where MN 28 becomes South Dakota Highway 10 upon crossing the state line.

MN 28 parallels MN 27 throughout its route until MN 27 enters Wheaton, Minnesota and then follows Mud Lake and Lake Traverse, heading South/Southwest to Browns Valley, Minnesota where it connects with MN 28.

The Sam Brown Memorial State Wayside Park is located on MN 28 in Traverse County at Browns Valley.

The highway overlaps MN 27 for the last 14 miles (23 km) of its route, until its terminus in Little Falls at the former alignment of US 10, which is now a city street.

MN 28 is legally defined as Constitutional Route 28 in the Minnesota Statutes.[2]

History

State Highway 28 was established November 2, 1920, traveling from the South Dakota border at Browns Valley to Little Falls.[2]

By 1923, the road was mostly graveled except at its extreme western and eastern ends.[3] The remainder was graveled by 1929.[4]

The roadway was paved throughout the 1930s and was paved in full by 1940.[5]

In 1934, the newly-marked State Highway 27 was overlapped with the eastern end of the route.[6] The eastern terminus of Highway 28 remained at U.S. 10; however, when the bypass of 10 around Little Falls was built in the mid-1970s,[7] 28 was not extended across the river and its terminus remains at Lindbergh Drive.[1]

Major intersections

County	Location	mi[1]	km	Destinations	Notes
Traverse	Folsom Township	0.000	0.000	SD 10 west – Sisseton	Continuation into South Dakota
		0.874	1.407	MN 27 east – Wheaton	Western terminus of MN 27
Big Stone	Browns Valley Township	9.251	14.888	MN 7 south – Ortonville	Western terminus of MN 7
	Graceville	22.606	36.381	US 75 – Wheaton, Ortonville
Stevens	Morris	48.053	77.334	MN 9 south – Benson	Western end of MN 9 concurrency
		48.561	78.151	MN 9 north – Breckenridge	Eastern end of MN 9 concurrency
	Morris Township	50.601	81.434	US 59 – Appleton, Elbow Lake
Pope	Starbuck	67.768	109.062	MN 29 south (Main Street south) / MN 114 north (Main Street north)	Western end of MN 29 concurrency
	Glenwood	76.276	122.754	MN 29 north (Franklin Street North) / MN 104 south (Franklin Street South)	Eastern end of MN 29 concurrency
		77.429– 77.550	124.610– 124.805	MN 55 – Elbow Lake, Belgrade	Interchange
Stearns	Sauk Centre Township	101.723	163.707	US 71 south – Willmar	Southern end of US 71 concurrency
	Sauk Centre	104.505– 104.669	168.184– 168.448	I-94 (US 52) – Alexandria, St. Cloud	Interchange; I-94 exit 127
	Sauk Centre Township	104.713	168.519	US 71 north – Long Prairie	Northern end of US 71 concurrency
Todd	Grey Eagle	116.338	187.228	MN 287
Morrison	Culdrum Township	130.513	210.040	MN 27 west – Long Prairie	Western end of MN 27 concurrency
	Pike Creek Township	142.422	229.206	MN 238 south – Albany	Northern terminus of MN 238
	Little Falls	144.429	232.436	MN 27 east / Great River Road (National Route) – Lindbergh State Park, Lindbergh Historic Site, Weyerhaeuser Museum	Eastern terminus; eastern end of MN 27 concurrency; GRR north is former US 10 (Lindbergh Drive)
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 2012-09-14. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
2. "161.114, Constitutional Trunk Highways". Minnesota Statutes. Office of the Revisor of Statutes, State of Minnesota. 2010. Retrieved October 15, 2010.
3. Map of Trunk Highway System, State of Minnesota (Map). Cartography by McGill-Warner Co. Minnesota Highway Department. May 1, 1923. § A-16 through H-14. Retrieved December 17, 2018.
4. 1929 Map of Trunk Highway System, State of Minnesota (Map). Cartography by McGill-Warner Co. Minnesota Highway Department. April 1, 1929. § A-16 through H-14. Retrieved December 17, 2018.
5. 1940 Map of Minnesota Trunk Highway System (Map) (Advance ed.). Cartography by McGill-Warner Co. Minnesota Highway Department. January 1, 1940. § A-16 through H-14. Retrieved December 17, 2018.
6. 1934 Map of Trunk Highway System, State of Minnesota (Map). Cartography by McGill-Warner Co. Minnesota Highway Department. May 1, 1934. § G-14 through H-14. Retrieved December 17, 2018.
7. "Construction Project Log Record: Control Section 4902" (PDF). Minnesota Department of Transportation. Retrieved December 17, 2018.

External links

Highway 28 at the Unofficial Minnesota Highways Page