The City of Hermantown has one hundred fourteen (114) miles of roadways within it's corporate limits.  Ownership and official designation vary in these roadways as follows:  U.S. Trunk Highway 53, State Trunk Highway 194, County State Aid Highways, County Roads, Municipal State Aid Streets, City Streets and a few private streets. 

 

Municipal State Aid 5-Year Construction Street Plan

Snowplowing Policy

 

Road Breakout:

State of MN:  Hwy 53 (Miller Trunk Hwy), Hwy 2 and Hwy 194

 (MN Dept. of Transportation - 723-4870)

St. Louis County:  Midway Road, Maple Grove Road, Morris Thomas Road, LaVaque Road, Haines Road, LaVaque By-Pass, St. Louis River Road & Stebner Road South of Morris Thomas Road.

 (St. Louis County Public Works - 625-3830/625-3588)

City of Hermantown:  All other public streets.

 (City Public Works - 729-7441)

 

The city's portion of this network of roadways is seventy-three (73) miles.  Fourteen (14) miles of city roadways are termed municipal state aid streets, which are principal collectors throughout the municipality.  The municipal state aid streets are eligible to receive state funds from the gasoline tax for reconstruction and rehabilitation.  The other streets are defined as local roadways and any improvements must be financed by general ad valom tax or other means of taxation.

City Superintendent Dean Sharpe is responsible for leading the maintenance and repair of city streets for safe use.  There are two full- time employees and one part-time employee that work within the street department.  Water and sewer employees will assist the street department employees during snowfall events.  City snow removal equipment consists of three trucks with plows and a grader.  The plowing of all city streets after a snowfall event takes approximately ten (10) hours.  Principal collector streets are always plowed first before residential neighborhood streets.