Minnesota State Highway 111 is a short highway

Highway

A highway is any public road. In American English, the term is common and almost always designates major roads. In British English, the term designates any road open to the public. Any interconnected set of highways can be variously referred to as a "highway system", a "highway network", or a...

 in south-central Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

, which runs from its intersection

Intersection (road)

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 with U.S. Highway 14

U.S. Route 14

U.S. Route 14 , an east–west route, is one of the original United States highways of 1926. It currently has a length of 1,398 miles , but it had a peak length of 1,429 miles . For much of its length, it runs roughly parallel to Interstate 90.As of 2004, the highway's eastern terminus is in...

 in Nicollet

Nicollet, Minnesota

Nicollet is a city in Nicollet County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,093 at the 2010 census.It is part of the Mankato–North Mankato Metropolitan Statistical Area....

 and continues north to its northern terminus at its intersection with State Highway 22

Minnesota State Highway 22

Minnesota State Highway 22 is a highway in south-central and central Minnesota, which runs from Winnebago County Road R50 at the Iowa state line near Kiester and continues north to its northern terminus at its intersection with State Highway 23 in Richmond, west of St...

 in New Sweden Township.

Highway 111 is 10 miles (16.1 km) in length.

Route description

Highway 111 serves as a north–south route in south-central Minnesota between the cities of Nicollet

Nicollet, Minnesota

Nicollet is a city in Nicollet County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,093 at the 2010 census.It is part of the Mankato–North Mankato Metropolitan Statistical Area....

 and Gaylord

Gaylord, Minnesota

As of the census of 2000, there were 2,279 people, 897 households, and 592 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,435.3 people per square mile . There were 930 housing units at an average density of 585.7 per square mile...

.

Highway 111 is also known as Main Street in the city of Nicollet.

The route is legally defined as Route 122 in the Minnesota Statutes. It is not marked with this number.

History

Highway 111 was authorized on April 22, 1933.

The route was paved by 1942.

Major intersections