 At this time, the highway ran from U.S. Highway 61 north of Atkinson to U.S. Highway 53 at Independence, and was gravel in its entirety except through downtown Cloquet.The original route ran west and south from Cloquet along present-day County Road 7 and County Road 5.The roadway was paved from the St. Louis River to a point just south of Industrial Road in 1937, and the remainder north to U.S. 53 in 1939.