Minnesota State Highway 28 (MN 28) is a

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in west-central and central

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, which travels from South Dakota Highway 10 at the

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state line near Browns Valley and continues east to its

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with the former route of

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(US 10) in Little Falls.

Route description

MN 28 serves as an east–west route between Browns Valley,

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, Glenwood, Sauk Centre, and Little Falls. The western terminus for MN 28 is at the

state line in Browns Valley, at the

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, 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

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and then follows Mud Lake and

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, heading South/Southwest to

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where it connects with MN 28. The

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Park is located on MN 28 in Traverse County at Browns Valley. The highway overlaps MN 27 for the last 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

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28 in the Minnesota Statutes.

History

State Highway 28 was established November 2, 1920, traveling from the South Dakota border at Browns Valley to Little Falls. By 1923, the road was mostly graveled except at its extreme western and eastern ends. The remainder was graveled by 1929. The roadway was paved throughout the 1930s and was paved in full by 1940. In 1934, the newly-marked State Highway 27 was overlapped with the eastern end of the route. 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, 28 was not extended across the river and its terminus remains at Lindbergh Drive.

Major intersections

References

External links

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Highway 28 at the ''Unofficial Minnesota Highways Page''
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