Fictional Exit Guide

From: Shakopee
To:
Shorewood

This fictional exit list is for the never-built MN 41 freeway through Chaska and Chanhassan, based on available information that I have found.  This route was not on the 1964 plan, but has shown up on planning maps by 1968.  A 1970 Corridor Study located a routing, but to my knowledge, nothing has been done since then, although there have been some rumors of a planned "new" Minnesota River bridge in the past couple years.  My idea here reflects what the freeway might have looked like in today's times.

This guide follows north, as the mileposts do, so if you are heading southbound, go to the bottom and scroll up.   At freeway/freeway junctions where no control cities exist, none are listed.  Italics indicate destinations/routes not marked as such.  Where the background of a state or county route marker is black, the marked route is not indicated on freeway signage.  Equivalent exit numbers are in parenthesis and italics.   Route shields framed in blue indicate Exit List continuations (click on the shield to continue).

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Notes

NORTH
Freeway
(Bloomington Ferry Bridge)

 

2 lanes each direction

 

(Exit 1AB)

SOUTH 
Freeway
Mankato
Shakopee

Partial-directional/cloverleaf
WB-SB (SB US 169) and NB 169 to NB 41 are flyovers

END SB

NORTH

 

Carver County
City of Chaska

Scott County

Milepost 1.5
Minnesota River Bridge

(Exit 2)


Flying Cloud Drive
Downtown Chaska

Folded-diamond to SOUTH

OLD

(Exit 4AB)


Freeway
Minneapolis
Glencoe

Partial-directional/cloverleaf
WB-SB is flyover

City of Chanhassan

City of Chaska

Milepost 4.6

(Exit 5)


Lyman Blvd

 

(Exit 6)


Expressway
Arboretum Blvd

Partial-cloverleaf/diamond
WB-SB and EB-NB are loops

(Exit 7)

Hazeltine Blvd

OLD

(Exit 8A)

Melody Hill Dr

On-ramp from Melody Hill Dr

Partial folded-diamond interchange
NB off-ramp is loop
NO SB off-ramp

 

SOUTH

 

Hennepin County
City of Shorewood

City of Chanhassan
Carver County

Milepost 8.5

(Exit 8B)

WEST
Expressway
Hutchinson

(MN 7 Exit)

SOUTH
Freeway
Chaska

Trumpet interchange
NB-WB is loop

END NB

2 lanes each direction

 

EAST
Freeway
Minneapolis

 

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Southbound
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Notes

 

Fictional Exit Guide

From: Shorewood
To: Shakopee

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Page last modified 31 May, 2004