Minnesota State Highway 73

Trunk Highway 73 marker

Trunk Highway 73
Route information
Defined by MS § 161.115(94)
Maintained by Mn/DOT
Length: 119.697 mi[1] (192.634 km)
Existed: 1933 – present
Major junctions
South end: I-35 near Moose Lake
  MN 210 at Cromwell
U.S. 2 at Floodwood
U.S. 169 , MN 37 at Hibbing
U.S. 169 at Chisholm
North end: U.S. 53 in Field Township
Location
Counties: Carlton, St. Louis
Highway system
  • Minnesota Trunk Highways
MN 72MN 74

Minnesota State Highway 73 (MN 73) is a highway in northeast Minnesota, which runs from its interchange with Interstate Highway 35 in Moose Lake and continues north to its northern terminus at its intersection with U.S. Highway 53 in Field Township near Cook and Orr.

Highway 73 is 120 miles (190 km) in length.

Route description

Highway 73 serves as a northsouth route in northeast Minnesota between Moose Lake, Kettle River, Cromwell, Floodwood, Hibbing, and Chisholm.

The roadway passes through the Sturgeon River State Forest and the Superior National Forest, both north of Chisholm, in Saint Louis County.

The route is legally defined as Legislative Route 163 in the Minnesota Statutes.[2] It is not marked with this number.

History

Highway 73 was authorized in 1933, and was originally numbered "Minnesota 63" until that U.S. route number (U.S. 63) was added elsewhere in Minnesota.[3]

The route was marked as "Minnesota 73" by 1935.[3]

In 1940, the route was mostly gravel south of Hibbing. The last segments paved in the mid-1950s were south of Hibbing.[3]

The Highway 73 designation was extended south through Moose Lake, partially along old U.S. 61, to Interstate 35 in the mid-1970s.[3]

Major intersections

CountyLocationmi[1]kmDestinationsNotes
CarltonMoose Lake Township0.0000.000 I-35Interchange
Moose Lake1.1361.828 MN 289
1.4862.391 CR 61Old U.S. 61
2.2893.684 MN 27East end of MN 27 overlap
Silver Township7.00711.277 MN 27West end of MN 27 overlap
Kettle River9.42315.165CR 12 (Locker Plant Road)
Silver Township10.87017.494 CR 6
Kalevala Township14.25222.936 CR 6
18.80830.269 CR 4
Cromwell25.22540.596 MN 210
St. LouisFine Lakes Township32.78952.769CR 86
35.03056.375CR 51
Floodwood Township42.87468.999 US 2South end of US 2 overlap
Floodwood43.12069.395 US 2North end of US 2 overlap
43.48169.976 CR 8 (5th Avenue)
Van Buren Township44.98372.393CR 29
Cedar Valley Township54.66887.980CR 133 east
55.76489.743CR 133 west
63.506102.203CR 18
Hibbing70.494113.449 CR 16 west
76.584123.250 CR 16 east, CR 60 west
78.846126.890 US 169South end of US 169 overlap
MN 37
CR 5
Chisholm87.153140.259 US 169North end of US 169 overlap
Dark River101.606163.519CR 65
Sturgeon Township108.675174.895CR 22
Linden Grove114.637184.490 MN 1
Field Township119.855192.888 US 53
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References

Route map: Bing / Google

KML is from Wikidata
  1. 1 2 "Trunk Highway Log Point Listing - Construction District 1" (PDF). Minnesota Department of Transportation. August 20, 2010. Retrieved October 29, 2010.
  2. "161.115, Additional Trunk Highways". Minnesota Statutes. Office of the Revisor of Statutes, State of Minnesota. 2010. Retrieved October 25, 2010.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Riner, Steve. "Details of routes 51–75". The Unofficial Minnesota Highways Page. Self-published. Retrieved October 29, 2010.
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