U.S. 63 highlighted in red | ||||
Route information | ||||
Maintained by MnDOT | ||||
Length | 96.483 mi [1] (155.274 km) | |||
Existed | 1934–present | |||
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Location | ||||
Country | United States | |||
State | Minnesota | |||
Counties | Fillmore, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha, Goodhue | |||
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U.S. Route 63 (US 63) is a highway in southeastern Minnesota that runs from the Minnesota-Iowa border south of Spring Valley to the Mississippi River at Red Wing. It connects the cities of Spring Valley, Stewartville, Rochester, and Lake City.
The route in Minnesota is 96 miles (154 km) in length.
U.S. 63 enters the state in Fillmore County, just north of Chester, Iowa. It travels north to Spring Valley where it becomes concurrent with State Highway 16, following it west for five miles entering Mower County. It continues north through Racine, then into Stewartville, after passing into Olmsted County, where it becomes a divided highway. Immediately after Stewartville, it intersects Interstate 90, near Rochester International Airport. The highway then enters Rochester 1 mile after the I-90 junction, where it is an expressway south of U.S. 52 (slowly becoming a freeway). It then follows U.S. 52 west of downtown Rochester to 75th Street NW, where it departs from U.S. 52. It follows 75th Street eastward to Olmsted County 33, where it continues north from a roundabout.
It continues north through Olmsted and Wabasha counties. A short segment of the highway is built to four-lane expressway standards just north of Zumbro Falls. It meets U.S. Highway 61 at Lake City and overlaps it into the city of Red Wing. U.S. 63 turns off from U.S. 61 and then curves back northwest to cross over 61, and then reaches the Red Wing Bridge where it crosses the Mississippi River and enters the state of Wisconsin.
Nearly all of the route is legally defined as Constitutional Route 59 in the Minnesota Statutes, [2] except for the part between Red Wing and the Mississippi River, which is Legislative Route 161. [3]
U.S. 63 was extended into Minnesota in 1934. [4] [5] The route had previously been marked the year before as U.S. 59, except for the segment running from U.S. 61 to the river crossing, which had been State Highway 58. [4] U.S. 63 was an original 1926 U.S. Route and terminated in Des Moines, Iowa until it was extended north. The U.S. 59 designation was simultaneously reassigned to a new highway running from Laredo, Texas to Pembina, North Dakota. The 32-mile (51 km) leg north of Rochester was originally blazed as the Lake City and Rochester Stage Road in 1858. [6]
The route was paved when it was marked. [5]
In the spring of 2014, it was rerouted to follow U.S. Highway 52 west of downtown Rochester. This makes the route longer, but reduces transit time due to higher speed limits and fewer traffic lights. The segment of the old route 63 between 37th Street NE and 75th Street NE was turned over to Olmsted County, and renamed County route 33. Plans for the change were announced in April, 2012. [7]
County | Location | mi [1] | km | Destinations | Notes |
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Fillmore | Beaver Township | 0.000 | 0.000 | ![]() ![]() | Continuation into Iowa |
0.503 | 0.810 | ![]() ![]() | |||
2.965 | 4.772 | ![]() ![]() | Formerly MN 44 | ||
Spring Valley | 13.569 | 21.837 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Eastern end of MN 16 overlap; CSAH 1 formerly MN 74 | |
Mower | Frankford Township | 18.649 | 30.013 | ![]() ![]() | Western end of MN 16 overlap |
Olmsted | Stewartville | 28.756 | 46.278 | ![]() ![]() | Southern end of MN 30 overlap |
High Forest Township | 30.794 | 49.558 | ![]() | I-90 exits 209A-B; interchange. | |
Rochester | 33.076 | 53.231 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Northern end of MN 30 overlap; interchange; access to Rochester International Airport | |
35.727 | 57.497 | 48th Street South | Interchange | ||
36.512 | 58.760 | 40th Street South | Interchange | ||
37.405 | 60.198 | ![]() ![]() | Interchange; southern end of US 52 overlap | ||
39.571 | 63.683 | ![]() | |||
39.981 | 64.343 | ![]() ![]() | No access northbound, southern end of US 14 overlap | ||
40.755 | 65.589 | 6th Street SW | No southbound access | ||
41.065 | 66.088 | ![]() | Access to Mayo Clinic, Saint Marys Hospital | ||
41.692 | 67.097 | ![]() ![]() | Partial cloverleaf, northern end of US 14 overlap | ||
42.570 | 68.510 | 19th Street NW, Elton Hills Drive NW | Single point urban interchange | ||
43.924 | 70.689 | ![]() ![]() | |||
45.273 | 72.860 | 55th Street NW | |||
46.282 | 74.484 | 65th Street NW | |||
47.285 | 76.098 | ![]() ![]() | Northern end of US 52 overlap | ||
Farmington Township | 55.709 | 89.655 | ![]() ![]() | ||
Wabasha | Zumbro Falls | 64.343 | 103.550 | ![]() | |
Lake City | 79.180 | 127.428 | ![]() ![]() | Southern end of US 61 overlap | |
Goodhue | Red Wing | 95.987 | 154.476 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Northern end of US 61 overlap; northern end of MN 58 |
96.059 | 154.592 | ![]() ![]() | Southern end of MN 58 overlap | ||
Mississippi River | 96.483 | 155.274 | Red Wing Bridge (Minnesota–Wisconsin state line) | ||
Pierce | Hager City | ![]() ![]() | Continuation into Wisconsin | ||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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The Minnesota Department of Transportation also has plans to turn Highway 63 into a controlled-access freeway between U.S. 52 and Interstate 90.
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