U.S. Route 10 in Minnesota

U.S. Highway 10
Maintained by MnDOT
West end:	U.S. 10 at Fargo, ND
Major junctions:	U.S. 75 at Moorhead U.S. 59 at Detroit Lakes U.S. 71 at Wadena MN 210 at Staples, Motley MN 27, MN 371 at Little Falls MN 15, MN 23 at St Cloud U.S. 169, MN 101 at Elk River U.S. 169, MN 47 at Anoka MN 610, MN 47 at Coon Rapids, Blaine I-35W at Mounds View I-694 at Arden Hills I-35E at Little Canada I-94, U.S. 61 at St. Paul
East end:	U.S. 10 at Prescott, WI
Minnesota State Highways < TH 9 TH 11 > United States Numbered Highways List – Bannered – Divided – Replaced

U.S. Route 10 is a major divided highway for almost all of its length in the U.S. state of Minnesota. U.S. 10 in Minnesota is 270 miles (430 km) in length.

Route description

Highway 10 enters the state from the west and heads through Moorhead parallel to I-94 until it exits the city.

U.S. 10 then takes a more northerly route than I-94 to St. Cloud, by heading through Detroit Lakes, Wadena, and Little Falls.

From St. Cloud to Mounds View, U.S. 10 is a busy road through the suburbs of St. Cloud and Minneapolis.

East of Mounds View, U.S. 10 is marked mostly along Interstate Highways until Saint Paul, where the road runs concurrent with U.S. Route 61 to Cottage Grove. Highway 10 then heads east to the Wisconsin state line and exits the state.

U.S. 10 is a divided highway along most of its length through the state, with posted 65 MPH speed limits along much of the way; except for two-lane or undivided four-lane stretches through Wadena and Motley. There are some 60 mph (97 km/h) posted speed limits in the four-lane section between Elk River and Anoka.

U.S. Highway 10 in Minnesota passes through the counties of:

Legally, the Minnesota section of U.S. 10 is defined as Routes 2, 37, 27, 3, 62, and 94 in Minnesota Statutes §§ 161.114(2) and 161.115(25).^[1][2]

History

U.S. Highway 10 in Minnesota was paved between St. Cloud and the Twin Cities as early as 1929. The remainder of the route was paved by 1950.

The four-lane divided highway section between the cities of Elk River and Anoka was constructed by 1942.

The freeway section of Highway 10 between the city of Anoka and University Avenue (at the Coon Rapids / Blaine boundary line) was completed in the mid 1970s. The new freeway section of Highway 10 between University Avenue and I-35W in Mounds View was completed in 1999.

From 1934 to 1999, U.S. 10 was located on a different alignment between Coon Rapids, Spring Lake Park, and Mounds View. This is now known as County Road 10.

When I-694 and I-35E were completed in the late 1960s, U.S. 10 was then signed concurrently with these routes east of Mounds View to the city of Saint Paul.

Exit list for freeway section in northern Twin Cities

Destinations	Notes
Main Street, Greenhaven Road
US 169 north / TH 47 (Ferry Street)	East end of US 169 overlap; west end of TH 47 overlap
TH 288 / CR 7 (7th Avenue)
CR 9 (Round Lake Boulevard)
CR 14 (Main Street)
CR 78 (Hanson Boulevard)	A SPUI interchange
CR 11 (Foley Boulevard)
TH 47 / TH 610 – Minneapolis	East end of TH 47 overlap; eastbound exit and westbound entrance
TH 610 west	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
TH 65 (Central Avenue Northeast)
Airport Road, County Road J, 85th Avenue Northeast
I-35W north – Duluth	West end of US 10 overlap

References

*Steve Riner Details of Routes 1 to 25. Unofficial Minnesota Highways Page. Accessed December 15, 2008.

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