Minnesota State Highway 119 (MN 119) is a
state highway
A state highway, state road, or state route (and the equivalent provincial highway, provincial road, or provincial route) is usually a road that is either ''numbered'' or ''maintained'' by a sub-national state or province. A road numbered by a ...
in west-central
Minnesota
Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 million residents. Minnesota is home to western prairies, now given over to ...
, which runs from its intersection with
U.S. Highway 212
U.S. Route 212 (US 212) is a spur of US 12. It runs for from Yellowstone National Park to Minnesota Highway 62 at Edina, Minnesota. It does not intersect US 12 now, but it once had an eastern terminus at US 12 in St. Paul, Minnesota ...
(US 212) in
Dawson and continues north to its northern terminus at its intersection with
U.S. Highway 12
U.S. Route 12 (US 12) is an east–west United States highway, running from Aberdeen, Washington, to Detroit, Michigan, for almost . The highway has mostly been superseded by Interstate 90 (I-90) and I-94, but unlike most U.S. routes that ...
(US 12) in
Shible Township. The route passes through the city of
Appleton.
Route description
MN 119 serves as a north–south route in west-central Minnesota between
US 12 and
U.S. Highway 212
U.S. Route 212 (US 212) is a spur of US 12. It runs for from Yellowstone National Park to Minnesota Highway 62 at Edina, Minnesota. It does not intersect US 12 now, but it once had an eastern terminus at US 12 in St. Paul, Minnesota ...
.
MN 119 crosses the
Minnesota River
The Minnesota River ( dak, Mnísota Wakpá) is a tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately 332 miles (534 km) long, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It drains a watershed of in Minnesota and about in South Dakota and Iowa.
It ris ...
and
Lac qui Parle Lake at the county line.
The route
runs concurrently with
US 59 and
MN 7 on Munsterman Street through the city of
Appleton for 14 blocks.
MN 119 parallels
US 75 throughout its route.
The route is legally defined as Route 144 in the Minnesota Statutes.
It is not marked with this number.
The highway is also designated ''Theodore Christianson Memorial Drive''.
History
MN 119 was authorized in 1933.
[
The route was mostly paved by 1940 and completely paved by 1953.]
Major intersections
References
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Transportation in Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota
Transportation in Swift County, Minnesota