Minnesota State Highway 67 (MN 67) is a
highway
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in southwest
Minnesota
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, which runs from its
intersection
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with
U.S. Highway 75
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in
Oshkosh Township near
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and continues east and southeast to its eastern terminus at its intersection with
State Highway 68 in
Morgan.
Route description
Highway 67 serves as an east–west and north–south route in southwest Minnesota between
Canby Canby may refer to:
People
* Canby (surname)
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* Canby, Iowa
* Canby, Minnesota
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,
Clarkfield,
Granite Falls,
Redwood Falls, and
Morgan.
The highway is officially marked as an east–west route by its highway shields from beginning to end.
Highway 67 runs together with
State Highway 19 for , west of
Redwood Falls.
History
Highway 67 was authorized in 1920 from present-day Highway 19 south of Echo to Granite Falls.
In 1934, it was extended westward to U.S. 75 at
Canby Canby may refer to:
People
* Canby (surname)
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;In the United States
* Canby, California
* Canby, Iowa
* Canby, Minnesota
* Canby, Oregon
* Canby Creek, a stream in Minnesota
* Canby Mountains, Oregon
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. The route was expanded east to
Redwood Falls and southeast to
Morgan .
Highway 67 was paved from
Granite Falls to
U.S. Highway 75
U.S. Route 75 is a major north–south U.S. Highway that extends in the central United States. The highway's northern terminus is in Noyes, Minnesota, at the Canadian border, where it once continued as Manitoba Highway 75 on the other sid ...
by 1940. The route was completely paved by 1953.
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In April 2019, the Minnesota Department of Transportation ( MN-DOT) closed Highway 67 in both directions approximately 8 miles southeast of the intersection of 67 and ]State Highway 23
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in Granite Falls. The closure was necessary due to unstable ground deep underneath the roadbed, causing large cracks to appear in the road surface and rendering it impassable for traffic. A detour is in place, following (from southeast to northwest) Yellow Medicine County
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The Upper Sioux Indian Reservation, related ...
Road 2 and State Highway 274 between Echo
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and Granite Falls. MN-DOT permanently rerouted Highway 67 along this detour and closed off the failed section on September 27, 2022.- Highway 67 - Granite Falls to Echo - Link
/ref> The main entrance to Upper Sioux Agency State Park is still accessible on the old roadway (which was redesignated as Minnesota State Highway 167) traveling southeast from Granite Falls.
Major intersections
References
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Transportation in Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota
Transportation in Redwood County, Minnesota