Project Overview

Highway 41 Minnesota River crossing scheduled to reopen July 22

Crews plan to reopen the Highway 41 Minnesota River crossing to traffic at 5 p.m. Monday, July 22, weather permitting, according to the Minnesota Department of Transportation.

Highway 41 north of Highway 169, from just north of Dem Con Drive in Scott County to First Street in downtown Chaska, closed June 20 due to flooding.

Crews are repairing flood damage to the road and slopes, moving debris, and returning concrete barriers to the shoulders of Highway 41.

Meanwhile, during the flood closure crews began work early on another Highway 41 project, to shorten the overall closure time. That project, led by the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, includes roadway and turn lane improvements for a new organics recycling facility.

MnDOT is also working with the Union Pacific Railroad at the site to make railroad crossing safety improvements and repairs.

The flood repair, and roadway and railroad crossing improvements, are scheduled to be completed by 5 p.m. July 22.

All construction activities and traffic impacts are weather-dependent and subject to change.

For updated road condition information, call 511 or visit www.511mn.org.

The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) and Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) are working with Union Pacific Railroad (UP) to make railroad crossing safety improvements and roadway repairs to a 0.3-mile stretch of Highway 41 (Chestnut Boulevard) in Scott County this summer. The tribe is currently building a new organics recycling facility, Dakota Prairie Composting, near the intersection of highways 169 and 41 in Louisville Township.

This construction work will happen between the UP railroad crossing and Dem Con Drive. Crews will add bypass and turn lanes and install rail crossing safety improvements, which will ease congestion, improve road safety, and better accommodate traffic.

Construction is anticipated to start in late June with the closure of TH 41 starting July 8 and lasting for approximately three weeks. The contractor cannot close TH 41 prior to July 8 and must open TH 41 to traffic, at the latest, by August 16 for the opening of the Minnesota Renaissance Festival. During this period, this 0.3-mile stretch of TH 41 will be entirely closed to the public and will be detoured to the river crossing in downtown Shakopee. See the attached figure for the planned signed route and supporting local connections.