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 MN 218 highlighted in red over a modern map | |
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| Length | 189 mi [1] (304 km) |
| Existed | 1933 [2] –1961 |
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Minnesota State Highway 218 was a highway that originally ran from U.S. Route 218 in St. Paul to U.S. Route 210 in Brainerd. In 1935, it was extended south to Owatonna along the former route of U.S. 218. Around 1949, it was extended north of Brainerd to Merrifield.
Highway 218 ran generally north-south, passing through Brainerd, Pierz, Foley, Becker, Big Lake, Elk River, Anoka, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Rosemount, Farmington, Northfield, Faribault, and Owatonna.
It ran concurrent with U.S. Routes 10, 12, and 52 at various points between St. Paul and Becker.
The route ran through the counties of Rice, Dakota, Ramsey, Hennepin, Anoka, Sherburne, Benton, Morrison, and Crow Wing.
State Highway 218 was authorized in 1933 from St. Paul to Brainerd. In 1935, U.S. Route 218 was truncated to end in Owatonna, and the MN-218 designation was extended along this route.
In 1949, it was extended north of Brainerd to the town of Merrifield.
The route was decommissioned in 1961. The bulk of the road south of St. Paul became State Highway 3, and most of the route north of Becker became State Highway 25. [3] [4]
| County | Location | mi [5] | km | Destinations | Notes |
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| Steele | Owatonna | 0 | 0.0 |  | Southern end of US 65 overlap |
| Rice | Walcott Township | 10 | 16 | | Northern end of US 65 overlap |
| Faribault | 15 | 24 |  | ||
| 17 | 27 |  | |||
| Northfield | 32 | 51 |  | ||
| Dakota | Farmington | 45 | 72 |  | Southern end of MN 50 overlap |
| 46 | 74 | | Northern end of MN 50 overlap | ||
| Wescott | 59 | 95 |  | ||
| | 62 | 100 |   | Southern end of US 52 overlap | |
| | 66 | 106 |  | ||
| Ramsey | St. Paul | 71 | 114 |  | Northern end of US 52 overlap |
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  | Eastern end of US 12 / US 52 / MN 56 overlap | ||||
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| Hennepin | Minneapolis | | Western end of MN 56 overlap | ||
| Washington Avenue Bridge over the Mississippi River | |||||
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| Western end of US 12 overlap | ||||
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 | Southern end of MN 278 overlap | ||||
| Robbinsdale | | Northern end of MN 278 overlap | |||
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| Brooklyn Park | | Southern end of MN 152 overlap | |||
| Osseo | | Northern end of MN 152 overlap | |||
| Champlin | | Southern end of US 169 overlap | |||
| Mississippi River | Anoka–Champlin Mississippi River Bridge | ||||
| Anoka | Anoka | | Eastern end of US 10 overlap | ||
| Sherburne | Elk River |  | Northern end of US 169 overlap | ||
| Big Lake |  | ||||
| Becker | | Western end of US 10 / 52 overlap | |||
| Benton | Glendorado Township |  | Eastern end of MN 95 overlap | ||
| St. George Township | | Western end of MN 95 overlap | |||
| Foley |  | ||||
| Morrison | Genola |  | Southern end of MN 27 overlap | ||
| Buh Township | | Northern end of MN 27 overlap | |||
| Crow Wing | Brainerd |  | |||
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| Mississippi River | |||||
| Merrifield | | ||||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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U.S. Highway 218 is an original United States Highway, created in 1926. Although technically a spur of U.S. Route 18, US 218 neither begins nor ends at US 18, but overlaps US 18 for 8 miles (13 km) near Charles City, Iowa. US 218 begins at U.S. Route 136 in downtown Keokuk and ends 319 miles (513 km) away at Interstate 35 and U.S. Route 14 at Owatonna, Minnesota. A large portion of US 218 in Iowa is part of the Avenue of the Saints, which connects St. Louis, Missouri, and Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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