Minnesota State Highway 110

Trunk Highway 110
Trunk Highway 110
	MN 110 highlighted in red
Route information
	Maintained by MnDOT
Length	5.245 mi (8.441 km)
Existed	1965–2018
Major junctions
West end	MN 55 in Mendota Heights
	MN 13 in Mendota Heights; I-35E in Mendota Heights; MN 149 in Mendota Heights; MN 3 in Sunfish Lake, Inver Grove Heights;
East end	I-494 in Inver Grove Heights
Location
Counties	Dakota
Highway system
	Minnesota Trunk Highway System; Interstate; US; State; Legislative routes;

Minnesota State Highway 110 (MN 110) was a short 5.245-mile-long (8.441 km) connector highway in Minnesota, which ran from an interchange with State Highway 55 in Mendota Heights to an interchange with Interstate 494 in Inver Grove Heights, south of downtown Saint Paul.

On October 23, 2017, MnDOT announced that Highway 110 would be renamed as an extension of State Highway 62. MnDOT says the change is necessary to prevent confusion to visitors and residents. Highway 62 signs went up in August 2018, while Highway 110 signs will be labelled "Old Highway 110" for one year after the switch.^[2]^[3]

Route description[]

Highway 110 served as an east–west arterial route between Mendota Heights, Mendota, West St. Paul, Sunfish Lake, and Inver Grove Heights. The route was a four lane divided highway with a total of seven stoplights for eastbound traffic and six westbound.

The highway had a major junction with Interstate 35E in the center of Mendota Heights. The route also has an interchange with Robert Street / Robert Trail (State Highway 3) in Inver Grove Heights.

MN 55 crossing the Minnesota River. MN 110's western terminus is across the river.

Highway 110 paralleled Interstate 494 throughout its route in Dakota County. It also had an interchange with Interstate 494 at its eastern terminus in Inver Grove Heights.

The western terminus of Highway 110 was located near the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers at the Mendota Bridge.

The Sibley House Historic Site museum in Mendota, overlooking Fort Snelling, is located immediately north of the junction of former Highway 110 and 13. The museum is on Highway 13.

History[]

Highway 110 was marked in 1965 and replaced the same route previously known as part of Highway 100 from 1934 to 1965.

This route was originally part of the Highway 100 Beltway circling the entire Twin Cities during the 1940s and 1950s.^[4] It was paved before 1940 and constructed as a divided highway by 1953.

Highway 110 was numbered as a derivative of Highway 100 in 1965.

Before completion of the I-494 freeway in 1985, I-494 had a missing link during the previous twenty years. Highway 110 had carried all I-494 traffic from its beginning at State Highway 55 in Mendota Heights, to the then completed portion of I-494 beginning again at Babcock Trail in Inver Grove Heights. There was a traffic signal at this junction (where Highways 3, 52, 110, and 494 all intersected) for many years following completion of the nearby Lafayette Freeway (then marked Highway 3, now U.S. 52). An interchange has since been constructed replacing this traffic signal.

After a resurfacing construction project in 2017, the Minnesota Department of Transportation announced that, starting in 2018, Highway 110 would change its name to Highway 62, providing one continuously-named highway that connects two ends of I-494.^[2]

Major intersections[]

The entire route was in Dakota County.

Location	mi^[1]	km	Destinations	Notes
Mendota Heights	0.000	0.000	MN 55 west	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
	0.387	0.623	MN 13 to MN 55 east
	1.496	2.408	I-35E – St. Paul, Albert Lea	I-35E north exit 101, south exits 101A-B; interchange
	2.167	3.487	MN 149 (Dodd Road)
Inver Grove Heights	4.470	7.194	MN 3 (South Robert Trail)	Interchange
Inver Grove Heights	5.245	8.441	I-494 / US 52 – St. Paul, Rochester	I-494 exit 67; eastbound exit and westbound entrance
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Incomplete access

References[]

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^ ^a ^b Minnesota Department of Transportation. "Statewide Trunk Logpoint Listing" (PDF). St. Paul: Minnesota Department of Transportation. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
^ ^a ^b Ferraro, Nick. "Hwy. 100 in Dakota County to get a new name - and it's a familiar one". Pioneer Press. St. Paul, MN. Retrieved October 23, 2017.
^ Harlow, Tim (September 10, 2018). "The Drive: What Happened to Hwy. 110? It's Now Hwy. 62". Star Tribune. Minneapolis. Retrieved September 10, 2018.
^ Minnesota Department of Highways; H.M. Gousha (1953). Official Road Map of Minnesota Showing the State Highway System and Main Secondary Roads (Map). Scale not given. St. Paul: Minnesota Department of Highways. OCLC 5673160, 80405240 – via Minnesota Digital Library. (Showing road conditions as of January 1, 1953)

[logpoint-1] Minnesota Department of Transportation. "Statewide Trunk Logpoint Listing" (PDF). St. Paul: Minnesota Department of Transportation. Retrieved August 1, 2018.

[Ferraro-2] Ferraro, Nick. "Hwy. 100 in Dakota County to get a new name - and it's a familiar one". Pioneer Press. St. Paul, MN. Retrieved October 23, 2017.

[HARLOW-3] Harlow, Tim (September 10, 2018). "The Drive: What Happened to Hwy. 110? It's Now Hwy. 62". Star Tribune. Minneapolis. Retrieved September 10, 2018.

[4] Minnesota Department of Highways; H.M. Gousha (1953). Official Road Map of Minnesota Showing the State Highway System and Main Secondary Roads (Map). Scale not given. St. Paul: Minnesota Department of Highways. OCLC 5673160, 80405240 – via Minnesota Digital Library. (Showing road conditions as of January 1, 1953)

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