Minnesota State Highway 76

Minnesota State Highway 76 (MN 76) is a highway in southeast Minnesota, which runs from Iowa Highway 76 at the Iowa state line (near Eitzen), and continues north to its northern terminus at its interchange with Interstate Highway 90 in Pleasant Hill Township near Winona.

Trunk Highway 76
MN 76 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by MnDOT
Length	36.767 mi[1] (59.171 km)
Existed	1933–present
Major junctions
South end	Iowa 76 at the Iowa state line in Eitzen
Major intersections	MN 44 at Caledonia MN 16 at Houston
North end	I-90 / CR 12 at Pleasant Hill Township
Location
Country	United States
State	Minnesota
Counties	Houston, Winona
Highway system
Minnesota Trunk Highway System Interstate US State Legislative Scenic
← US 75 → MN 77

Highway 76 is 37 miles (60 km) in length.

Route description

Highway 76 serves as a north–south route in southeast Minnesota between Caledonia, Houston, and Interstate 90.

The route passes through the Richard J. Dorer State Forest.

Beaver Creek Valley State Park is located 4 miles west of the junction of Highway 76 and Houston County Road 1 at Caledonia. The park entrance is located on County Road 1.^[2]

Highway 76 parallels State Highway 26 and State Highway 43 throughout its route.

The route is legally defined as Legislative Route 76 in the Minnesota Statutes.^[3]

MN-76 & I-90 junction and northern terminus

Southern terminus in Eitzen, Minnesota

History

Highway 76 was authorized in 1933.^[4]

By 1953, only the section in Houston County was paved. All of Highway 76 was paved by 1963.^[4]

Major intersections

MN-76 junction with MN-44 north of Caledonia

County	Location	mi[1]	km	Destinations	Notes
Houston	Winnebago Township	0.000	0.000	Iowa 76 south – Waukon	Continuation into Iowa
	Caledonia Township	7.830	12.601	MN 44 west – Spring Grove	Southern end of MN 44 overlap
	Caledonia			CSAH 3 – Brownsville	Former MN 249
		10.949	17.621	MN 44 east – Hokah	Northern end of MN 44 overlap
	Houston Township	22.170	35.679	MN 16 east – Hokah	Eastern end of MN 16 overlap
	Houston	23.039	37.078	MN 16 west / CSAH 13 – Rushford	Western end of MN 16 overlap
Winona	Pleasant Hill Township	36.691	59.048	I-90 – La Crosse, Austin	Interchange
		36.767	59.171	CSAH 12 – Witoka, Ridgeway
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Concurrency terminus

References

Template:Attached KML/Minnesota State Highway 76

KML is from Wikidata

1. Minnesota Department of Transportation (August 14, 2014). "Statewide Trunk Logpoint Listing" (PDF). St. Paul: Minnesota Department of Transportation. Retrieved November 14, 2015.
2. Minnesota DNR website for Beaver Creek Valley State Park - Link
3. "161.115, Additional Trunk Highways". Minnesota Statutes. Office of the Revisor of Statutes, State of Minnesota. 2010. Retrieved November 1, 2010.
4. Riner, Steve. "Details of routes 76–100". The Unofficial Minnesota Highways Page. Retrieved November 1, 2010.^{[self-published source]}