Minnesota State Highway 18

Trunk Highway 18 marker
Trunk Highway 18
Map
MN 18 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by MnDOT
Length78.207 mi[2] (125.862 km)
ExistedNovember 2, 1920[1]–present
Tourist
routes
Lake Mille Lacs Scenic Byway
Major junctions
West end MN 25 in Brainerd
Major intersections MN 6 at Bay Lake Township
US 169 at Garrison
MN 47 at Malmo
MN 27 / MN 65 near McGrath
East end MN 23 in Finlayson Township
Location
CountryUnited States
StateMinnesota
CountiesCrow Wing, Aitkin, Mille Lacs, Pine
Highway system
  • Minnesota Trunk Highway System
MN 16 MN 19

Minnesota State Highway 18 (MN 18) is a 78.207-mile-long (125.862 km) highway in east-central Minnesota, which runs from its intersection with State Highway 25 in Brainerd and continues east to its eastern terminus at its intersection with State Highway 23 in Finlayson Township near Askov and Sandstone. The eastern terminus of Highway 18 is less than 1/2 mile west of an interchange with Interstate Highway 35 along Highway 23.

For part of its route (5 miles), Highway 18 runs concurrent with U.S. Highway 169 in Crow Wing and Aitkin counties around the northwest side of Mille Lacs Lake.

Highway 18 also runs together with State Highway 47 for 9 miles (14 km) in Aitkin and Mille Lacs counties around the northeast side of Mille Lacs Lake.

  1. ^ Minnesota State Legislature (2010). "§ 161.114, Constitutional Trunk Highways". Minnesota Statutes. Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes. Retrieved November 28, 2010.
  2. ^ "Statewide Trunk Logpoint Listing" (PDF). Minnesota Department of Transportation. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 14, 2012. Retrieved December 24, 2011.