Minnesota State Highway 287
{{short description|Highway in Minnesota}}
{{Use American English|date=May 2025}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox road
|state=MN
|type=MN
|route = 287
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|map_custom=yes
|map_notes=MN 287 highlighted in red
|established = July 1, 1949{{citation |title=Chapter 663-H.F. No. 1792 |work=Session Laws of Minnesota for 1949 |publisher=Earl L. Berg, Commissioner of Administration |pages=1177–1185}}
|length_mi = 14.423
|section=115
|subsection=218
|direction_a = South
|direction_b = North
|terminus_a = {{jct|state=MN|MN|28}} at Grey Eagle
|terminus_b = {{jct|state=MN|US|71|MN|27}} at Long Prairie
|counties=Todd
|previous_type=MN
|previous_route=286
|next_type=MN
|next_route=308}}
Minnesota State Highway 287 (MN 287) is a {{convert|14.423|mi|km|-long|adj=mid}} highway in west-central Minnesota, which runs from its intersection with State Highway 28 in Grey Eagle and continues north to its northern terminus at its intersection with U.S. 71 / State Highway 27 in Long Prairie.
Route description
Highway 287 serves as a north–south route in west-central Minnesota between Grey Eagle and Long Prairie.
The roadway passes around the south side of Trace Lake at Grey Eagle. It also passes around the west side of Big Swan Lake in Burnhamville Township.{{cite map |url=http://www.dot.state.mn.us/maps/cadd/county/todd.pdf |title=General Highway Map of Todd County |publisher=Minnesota Department of Transportation |year=2010 |accessdate=January 24, 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120905082801/http://www.dot.state.mn.us/maps/cadd/county/todd.pdf |archivedate=September 5, 2012 }}
Highway 287 changes direction to east–west at its intersection with Todd County Road 13 in Round Prairie Township; and continues as east–west for 2.5 miles before returning again to a north–south direction for the remainder of its route towards Long Prairie.
Highway 287 is also known as State Street West in Grey Eagle. The route follows 4th Avenue SE in Long Prairie.
The route is legally defined as Route 287 in the Minnesota Statutes.{{cite web |url=https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/?id=161.115 |title=161.115, Additional Trunk Highways |work=Minnesota Statutes |publisher=Office of the Revisor of Statutes, State of Minnesota |year=2010 |accessdate=January 24, 2011}}
History
Highway 287 was authorized on July 1, 1949.
The route was paved from Grey Eagle to Big Swan Lake in 1952.{{cite map |url=http://reflections.mndigital.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/mdt&CISOPTR=1294&REC=12 |title=1952 Official Road Map of Minnesota |publisher=Minnesota Department of Highways |date=January 1, 1952 |section=F12-F13 |cartography=The H.M. Gousha Company |accessdate=January 24, 2011 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721132107/http://reflections.mndigital.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=%2Fmdt&CISOPTR=1294&REC=12 |archivedate=July 21, 2011 |url-status=dead }}{{cite map |url=http://reflections.mndigital.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/mdt&CISOPTR=1180&REC=13 |title=1953 Official Road Map of Minnesota |publisher=Minnesota Department of Highways |date=January 1, 1953 |section=F12-F13 |cartography=The H.M. Gousha Company |accessdate=January 24, 2011 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110825214307/http://reflections.mndigital.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=%2Fmdt&CISOPTR=1180&REC=13 |archivedate=August 25, 2011 |url-status=dead }} The remainder was paved in 1954 or 1955.{{cite map |url=http://reflections.mndigital.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/mdt&CISOPTR=1183&REC=14 |title=1954 Official Road Map of Minnesota |publisher=Minnesota Department of Highways |date=January 1, 1954 |section=F12-F13 |cartography=The H.M. Gousha Company |accessdate=January 24, 2011 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110825214357/http://reflections.mndigital.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=%2Fmdt&CISOPTR=1183&REC=14 |archivedate=August 25, 2011 |url-status=dead }}{{cite map |url=http://reflections.mndigital.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/mdt&CISOPTR=1186&REC=15 |title=1956 Official Road Map of Minnesota |publisher=Minnesota Department of Highways |year=1956 |section=F12-F13 |cartography=The H.M. Gousha Company |accessdate=January 24, 2011 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110825214617/http://reflections.mndigital.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=%2Fmdt&CISOPTR=1186&REC=15 |archivedate=August 25, 2011 |url-status=dead }}
Major intersections
{{Jcttop |state=MN |county=Todd |length_ref={{MnDOT logpoint|date=August 14, 2014|accessdate=December 10, 2015}}}}
{{MNint
|location=Grey Eagle
|mile=0.000
|road={{jct|state=MN|MN|28|name1=Cedar Street south, State Street east|city1=Burtrum|city2=Sauk Centre}}
}}
{{MNint
|location=Long Prairie
|mile=14.423
|road={{jct|state=MN|US|71|MN|27|city1=Browerville|city2=Sauk Centre}}
}}
{{jctbtm}}
References
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External links
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- [http://www.steve-riner.com/mnhighways/r219-287.htm#287 Highway 287 at the Unofficial Minnesota Highways Page]