Minnesota State Highway 1 (MN 1) is a

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across northern

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, United States, which runs from

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(ND 54) at the

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state line (at the Red River in

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) 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

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. At in length, Highway 1 is the longest state route in Minnesota.

Route description

MN 1 serves as an east–west route between

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, Red Lake, Northome,

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, and Beaver Bay Township. The roadway passes through the following forests: *

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in Lake County *

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and Saint Louis counties *

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and Saint Louis counties *

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in Saint Louis County *

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* Koochiching State Forest in

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The route runs concurrently with MN 169 for from Vermilion Lake Township (west of

) to

. MN 1 also runs concurrently with MN 89 for 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

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(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.

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Transportation in Lake County, Minnesota Transportation in St. Louis County, Minnesota Transportation in Itasca County, Minnesota Transportation in Koochiching County, Minnesota Transportation in Beltrami County, Minnesota Transportation in Pennington County, Minnesota Transportation in Marshall County, Minnesota Transportation in Clearwater County, Minnesota

Route description

History

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