Minnesota State Highway 32

Trunk Highway 32
Route information
	Maintained by MnDOT
Length	144.845 mi[1] (233.105 km)
Existed	1920[2] – present
Major junctions
South end	MN 34 at Tansem Township,; near Barnesville
	US 10 near Hawley; MN 113 at Syre; MN 200 near Twin Valley; MN 102 at Fertile; US 2 at Marcoux; MN 92 near Red Lake Falls; US 59 / MN 1 at Thief River Falls
North end	MN 11 at Greenbush
Location
Counties	Clay, Norman, Polk, Red Lake, Pennington, Marshall, Roseau
Highway system

Minnesota State Highway 32 (MN 32) is a highway in west-central and northwest Minnesota, which runs from its intersection with State Highway 34 in Tansem Township near Barnesville and continues north to its northern terminus at its intersection with State Highway 11 in Greenbush at Roseau County.

Highway 32 is 145 miles (233 km) in length.

Route description

State Highway 32 serves as a north–south route between Tansem Township, Twin Valley, Fertile, Red Lake Falls, Thief River Falls, and Greenbush in west-central and northwest Minnesota.

Highway 32 parallels U.S. 75 and U.S. 59 throughout its route.

The route passes through the Glacial Ridge National Wildlife Refuge in Polk County, east of Crookston, west of Erskine.^[3]^[4]

History

Highway 32 was authorized in 1920 from present-day U.S. 2 to Greenbush.^[5] The southern segment extending to Highway 34 was authorized in 1933.^[2]

In 1940, the route was mostly gravel north of U.S. Highway 2. By 1953, only the southernmost five miles (8 km) of the route were still gravel. Completely paved in the present day.

Major intersections

County	Location	mi^[1]	km	Destinations	Notes
Clay	Tansem Township	0.000	0.000	MN 34 – Barnesville
Clay	Eglon Township	15.389– 15.598	24.766– 25.103	US 10 – Moorhead, Detroit Lakes	Interchange
Norman	Syre	36.460	58.677	MN 113 – Waubun
	Wild Rice Township	44.822	72.134	MN 200 – Ada	South end of MN 200 overlap
	Wild Rice Township	46.949	75.557	MN 200 – Mahnomen	North end of MN 200 overlap
Polk	Garfield Township	62.425	100.463	MN 102 – Crookston
Polk	Grove Park-Tilden Township	77.001	123.921	US 2 – Crookston, Bagley
Red Lake	Lake Pleasant Township	82.130	132.175	MN 92 – Brooks
Pennington	Thief River Falls	104.234	167.748	US 59 / MN 1 – Erskine, Mahnomen, Karlstad, Warren	South end of MN 1 overlap
Pennington	Thief River Falls	104.588	168.318	MN 1 – Northland College, Goodridge, Red Lake	North end of MN 1 overlap
Roseau	Greenbush	144.879	233.160	MN 11 – Roseau, Karlstad
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Concurrency terminus

References

Route map:

1 2 "Statewide Trunk Logpoint Listing" (PDF). Minnesota Department of Transportation. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 14, 2012. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
1 2 Riner, Steve. "Details of Routes 26-50". The Unofficial Minnesota Highways Page. Retrieved February 24, 2007.
↑ U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service website -- Glacial Ridge Refuge - Link
↑ U.S. Dept. of Agriculture / Natural Resources Conservation website -- Glacial Ridge article - Link Archived 2006-09-24 at the Wayback Machine.
↑ Minnesota State Legislature (2010). "§ 161.114, Constitutional Trunk Highways". Minnesota Statutes. Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes. Retrieved October 18, 2010.

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[statelpt-1] 1 2 "Statewide Trunk Logpoint Listing" (PDF). Minnesota Department of Transportation. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 14, 2012. Retrieved December 27, 2011.

[riner1-2] 1 2 Riner, Steve. "Details of Routes 26-50". The Unofficial Minnesota Highways Page. Retrieved February 24, 2007.

[3] U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service website -- Glacial Ridge Refuge - Link

[4] U.S. Dept. of Agriculture / Natural Resources Conservation website -- Glacial Ridge article - Link Archived 2006-09-24 at the Wayback Machine.

[babcock-5] Minnesota State Legislature (2010). "§ 161.114, Constitutional Trunk Highways". Minnesota Statutes. Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes. Retrieved October 18, 2010.