A well traveled road in North Western Minnesota is Co. Hwy #3 / Center St W. It is well known to local people as the cut across or the St. Hilaire Cut Across. The county highway number changes to Co. Hwy #21 once you cross into polk county.
This whole area of Minnesota is laid out in a grid like pattern of mile squares with roads going due north and due south about every mile. Rivers, bridges and trails cause some roads to deviate from this but for the most part it is a grid and the "Cut Across" is no different. The reason I guess it is called the cut across is because it cuts across from the St Hilaire, Thief River Falls area to East Grand Forks and Grand Forks North Dakota. In the Winter this can be a difficult road. There are some open areas where the wind can pick up snow and make it difficult to see the road. The only town on this lonely stretch of hwy is Sherack. Sherack is just a group of houses and grain elevators with out a gas station or store front. There are some stories about a ghost who hitch hikes between Sherack and East Grand. I will leave the ghost stories for another post. See http://www.strangeusa.com/ViewLocation.aspx?locationid=5696
From Sherrack you can see the lights of East Grand Forks at night.
The railroad tracks you cross before you cross Highway 75.
The Highway sign you see before turning south on Frontage Road 220 to go to East Grand Forks.
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