| I-94 | |||
| Get started | Moorhead | ||
| End | Lakeland | ||
| Length | 259 mi | ||
| Length | 417 km | ||
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Interstate 94 or I -94 is an Interstate Highway in the US state of Minnesota. The highway forms an east-west route through the center of the state, which also runs regularly north-south. The highway begins in Moorhead on the North Dakota border and continues through Minneapolis to the Wisconsin border at Lakeland. I-94 is 417 kilometers long in Minnesota.
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Travel directions
I-94 at Fergus Falls.
Western Minnesota
Interstate 94 in North Dakota crosses the Minnesota border, which is formed by the Red River, near the town of Moorhead. After just a few kilometers the motorway bends to the southeast. One passes through flat and monotonous agricultural area. The distances here are quite large. At the town of Fergus Falls one crosses the US 59, the road from Morris to Detroit Lakes, two regional towns in western Minnesota. You then pass through an area with many lakes. This area consists mainly of agricultural land with small villages. At Sauk Center you cross the US 71, the road from Wilmar to Bemidji. After 260 kilometers you reach the town of St. Cloud, which has 60,000 inhabitants. From here the US 10. proceedsparallel to the highway to Minneapolis. The Mississippi River also flows parallel to I-94. After 330 kilometers from Moorhead you reach the first suburb of Minneapolis.
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Minneapolis – St. Paul
I-94 at Downtown Minneapolis.
The first suburb is Maple Grove, a city of 50,000. Here the highway widens to 2×3 lanes and you pass a small office park. In Maple Grove, Interstate 494 exits, the ring road around the conurbation. After this the road narrows again to 2×2 lanes. Then you cross US 169, one of the north-south highways to Bloomington, a large suburb south of Minneapolis. You then pass through the suburb of Brooklyn Park, which has a population of 67,000. State Route 100 merges at Brooklyn Center, a short highway from the suburb of Crystal. Immediately afterwards, I-94 turns south and becomes Interstate 694straight on, forming the ring road with I-494. The highway then has 2×4 lanes, and you enter the city of Minneapolis. The highway here runs over the banks of the Mississippi River and passes through the northern neighborhoods. You already have a distant view of the skyline of Minneapolis and Interstate 394 ends at the center, which comes from the suburb of Minnetonka. The highway then goes through an urban tunnel and turns south from the center to the east. Here one intersects with Interstate 35 West, the western branch of I-35 through the metropolitan area, which comes from Des Moines. Both roads are then briefly double-numbered and I-35 then continues north to Duluth.
I-94 on the east side of St. Paul.
East of downtown 2×3 lanes are available, crossing the Mississippi River via the Dartmouth Bridge and entering the conurbation’s second largest city; St. Paul. Immediately exits State Route 280, which runs north as a highway. The highway then has 2×4 lanes. One then reaches downtown St. Paul, where one crosses Interstate 35 East, the eastern branch of I-35 through the metropolitan area. The interstate then turns east and intersects US 52, the highway to the suburb of Inver Grove Heights. After this, 2×3 lanes are available and one passes through the eastern neighborhoods of St. Paul. In the suburb of Woodbury one crosses Interstate 494, which becomes Interstate 694 and forms the beltway. Then they leave the conurbation, but I-94 keeps 2×3 lanes until the bridge over the St. Croix River, also the border with Wisconsin. Interstate 94 in Wisconsin continues towards the state capital Madison, Milwaukee and Chicago.
History
I-94 at St Cloud.
History
The predecessor to I-94 in Minnesota was largely US 52, which ran diagonally through the grid from Fargo to Minneapolis. Between St. Cloud and Minneapolis, US 10 was also the through route, mostly with US 52 double-numbered, but partly via an alternate route between Anoka and St. Paul. The eastern section between Minneapolis and the Wisconsin border was preceded by US 12.
Before I-94 was built, US 10 through Detroit Lakes was roughly comparable in travel time and quality to US 52 for traffic between Fargo and Minneapolis. Before I-94 was built, the entire corridor between St. Cloud and Minneapolis was already developed as a 2×2 divided highway, I-94 was later built parallel to it at a fairly short distance. West of St. Cloud, a 30-kilometer stretch of 2×2 lanes was also provided, which later became part of I-94. East of St. Paul, US 12 was also a 2×2 divided highway, which was later transformed into I-94.
Construction history
Although I-94 was one of Minnesota’s two major highways, construction was very sluggish, resulting in major links being completed very late. The first section of the highway opened in 1962, a two-mile stretch of the North Dakota border at Moorhead, and the Fergus Falls bypass in the western part of the state. It wasn’t until 1965 that the first section between Minneapolis and St. Paul, the Dartmouth Bridge, openedacross the Mississippi River and a short stretch in St. Paul. The route between downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul was not completed until 1968. After that, construction slowed, and the highway was opened mainly in rural areas in western Minnesota. It was not until 1979 that the last link opened here, the St. Cloud bypass. Construction of I-94 was especially lengthy in north Minneapolis, between I-694 (orbital highway) and downtown, which opened in two phases in 1981 and 1983. A little later, the last section of I-94, the link between I-494 east of St. Paul and the Wisconsin border, opened in 1985.
Reconstructions & widening
The only large-scale reconstructions on I-94 are in the Minneapolis-St. Paul performed.
As early as the 1980s, a 14-mile stretch of I-94 between Rogers and I-694 at Maple Grove was widened to 2×3 lanes. In the 1990s, a number of connections to this section were also reconstructed due to the growth of the suburbs of the Minneapolis region.
Also, in about 2005, a portion of I-94 on the north side of the Minneapolis region was widened to 2×3 lanes, between I-694 and Brooklyn Center. The section between Brooklyn Center and I-694 on the Mississippi River did not open until 1984, with direct 2×3 lanes and parallel structures with interchanges.
In the 1990s, I-94 in eastern Minneapolis was widened from 2×3 to 2×4 lanes, between I-35W and SR-280. The section further to St. Paul already had 2×4 lanes before that. In the early 1990s, the sunken location and confluence with I-35E near downtown St. Paul was widened to 2×5 lanes.
In 2021, 14 kilometers of I-94 between Rogers and Maple Grove in the suburbs of Minneapolis will be redeveloped. In addition, the section between State Route 101 and State Route 610 has been widened to 2×4 lanes. A diverging diamond interchange has also been constructed at Dayton Parkway. The work was completed on November 12, 2021.
Opening history
Opening dates taken from Minnesota State Highway maps.
| From | Unpleasant | Length | Opening |
| exit 0 | Exit 2 | 3 km | 1962 |
| Exit 50 | exit 61 | 18 km | 1962 |
| Exit 2 | exit 6 | 6 km | 1965 |
| exit 61 | Exit 82 | 34 km | 1965 |
| Exit 235 | Exit 236 | 1 km | 1965 |
| Exit 238 | Exit 241 | 5 km | 1965 |
| Exit 31 (I-694) | Exit 225 | 6 km | 1965 |
| Exit 127 | Exit 135 | 13 km | 1967 |
| exit 38 | Exit 50 | 19 km | 1968 |
| Exit 82 | Exit 114 | 51 km | 1968 |
| Exit 216 | Exit 31 (I-694) | 6 km | 1968 |
| Exit 231 | Exit 233 | 3 km | 1968 |
| Exit 236 | Exit 238 | 3 km | 1968 |
| Exit 246 | Exit 249 | 5 km | 1968 |
| Exit 114 | Exit 147 | 53 km | 07-11-1968 |
| Exit 233 | Exit 235 | 3 km | 1969 |
| Exit 245 | Exit 246 | 2 km | 1969 |
| exit 6 | exit 38 | 51 km | 1970 |
| Exit 183 | Exit 216 | 53 km | 1974 |
| Exit 171 | Exit 183 | 19 km | 1975 |
| Exit 241 | Exit 245 | 6 km | 1976 |
| Exit 147 | Exit 153 | 10 km | 00-11-1977 |
| Exit 153 | Exit 171 | 29 km | 1979 |
| Exit 228 | Exit 231 | 5 km | 1981 |
| Exit 225 | Exit 228 | 5 km | 1983 |
| Exit 249 | Exit 258 | 14 km | 1985 |
Traffic intensities
In the metropolitan area of Minneapolis, intensities are rising rapidly, reaching 114,000 on I-494 and 120,000 on 2×2 I-94 between I-494 and US 169. In Minneapolis itself, 140,000 vehicles drive for downtown, and 190,000 south of downtown. Centre. The double numbering with the I-35 counts 258,000 vehicles per day, but both roads are actually next to each other. In St. Paul, 171,000 vehicles drive in the west of the city and 202,000 near the center. East of the center this quickly drops to below 100,000 vehicles.
