Interstate 90 in Minnesota

 

	I-90
Get started	Beaver Creek
End	La Crescent
Length	276 mi
Length	444 km
Route South Dakota1 Manley 3 Beaver Creek 5 Beaver Creek 12 Luverne 18 Magnolia 26 Adrian 33 Rushmore 42 West Worthington 43 Wortington 45 East Worthington 47 Town Avenue 50 Round Lake 57 Okabena 64 Lakefield 73 Jackson 80 Alpha 87 Sherburn 93 Welcome 99 West Fairmont 102 Fairmont 107 Granada 113 Huntley 119 Blue Earth 128 Frost 134 Bricelyn 138 Wells 146 Alden 154 West Albert Lea 157 Albert Lea Airport 159 → Des Moines / Minneapolis 163 Hayward 166 Myrtle 175 West Austin 177 Maple view 178 Austin 179 North Austin 180 East Austin 181 Austin Airport 183 Nicolville 187 Sargeant 189 Elkton 193 Dexter 205 Stewartville 209 Rochester 218 Rochester 224 Eyota 229 Dover 233 St. Charles 242 Lewiston 249 Rushford 252 Winona 258 Houston 266 Lamoille 269 270 Dakota 272 Dresbach 276 La Crescent I-90 Mississippi River Bridge Wisconsin → La Crosse / Madison

Interstate 90 or I -90 is an Interstate Highway in the US state of Minnesota. I-90 forms an east-west route through the south of the state, from the South Dakota border at Manley to the Wisconsin border at La Crescent. I-90 does not serve major cities on its route and passes well south of the Minneapolis-St. Paul along. I-90 does lead closer to the regional city of Rochester. I-90 is 244 miles long in Minnesota.

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Travel directions

I-90 at the interchange with I-35 at Albert Lea.

Just east of Sioux Falls, Interstate 90 crosses the border into Minnesota in South Dakota. I-90 then leads through the flat prairies of southern Minnesota. In particular, the western 350 kilometers leads through monotonous landscape with no larger places on the route. The landscape consists of flat meadows with hardly any vegetation. The most famous places are intersections with other major roads, such as Luverne, where you intersect US 75, and Worthington, where you intersect US 59. I-90 has long straights, the highway runs parallel to the border with the state of Iowa for a short distance. The main place on the western half of the route is Albert Lea, an important truck stopand interchange with I-35.

Just east of Albert Lea, I-90 passes the town of Austin, where it intersects US 218. After this, I-90 curves northeast to walk closer to the city of Rochester. Rochester is the largest city in Southeast Minnesota and located primarily on US 52, which joins I-90 south of Rochester and is a freeway. I-90 then continues east through the meadows to near Winona, from here the highway leads through an area of ​​low hills and more forest, this is the Mississippi River valley. I-90 splits down to the Mississippi River at Dakota and even heads south for a bit. Just before the town of La Crescent, I-90 bends east again and crosses the Dresbach Bridgeacross the Mississippi River, which forms the border with the state of Wisconsin. Interstate 90 in Wisconsin then continues past La Crosse toward Madison.

History

I-90’s predecessor was US 16, which originally ran much further east, all the way to Detroit. In southern Minnesota, most of I-90 has been constructed over US 16, except at locations where diversions have been made. As a result, US 16 ceased to exist as an individual route. Between 1978 and 1980, US 16 was phased out from Wisconsin to South Dakota, thereby ceasing to exist in Minnesota.

I-90 was of little importance to Minnesota and construction was spread out through the 1960s and 1970s. The first section to open was the Austin Bypass in 1960. In 1961, a short section opened near the South Dakota border. In 1963 the first longer section opened, from Austin to Dexter. The route was built west of Dexter primarily over or along existing US 16, east of it on a new line to also connect the cities of Rochester and Winona. Construction progressed through the 1960s, with the eastern section being completed first to the Wisconsin border in 1972.. Then west of Albert Lea had to be built through the prairies, which mainly took place in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. In 1978, the last section of the highway opened to traffic, completing I-90 after some 18 years.

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Opening history

Opening dates taken from Minnesota State Highway maps.

From	Unpleasant	Length	Opening
Exit 175	exit 180	8 km	1960
exit 0	Exit 3	5 km	1961
exit 180	Exit 193	21 km	1963
Exit 166	Exit 175	14 km	1964
Exit 193	Exit 209	26 km	1964
Exit 3	Exit 18	24 km	1965
Exit 270	Exit 275	8 km	1965
Exit 18	Exit 26	13 km	1967
Exit 26	exit 45	31 km	1968
Exit 154	Exit 166	19 km	1969
Exit 209	Exit 233	39 km	1971
Exit 233	Exit 270	60 km	1972
exit 45	exit 57	19 km	1974
Exit 146	Exit 155	14 km	1974
exit 57	Exit 87	48 km	1975
Exit 87	Exit 107	32 km	1976
Exit 138	Exit 146	13 km	1976
Exit 107	Exit 113	10 km	1977
Exit 113	Exit 138	40 km	1978

Traffic intensities

About 10,000 vehicles cross the border into South Dakota, which then stabilizes at about 7,000 to 9,000 vehicles per day, making I-90 very quiet. After Rochester, 14,000 vehicles drive some more traffic on the route, and 17,000 vehicles cross the Mississippi River, which also crosses the Wisconsin border, every day.