Minnesota 511

Minnesota Department of Transportation

About this app

Minnesota 511 is the Minnesota Department of Transportation's traveler information resource. The 511MN app provides statewide, real-time traffic information for Minnesota highways and interstates, including:

- Hands-free, audio notifications of traffic events while you drive

- Zoom-enabled map with selectable event icons

- Near real-time updates on winter road conditions, traffic incidents, and road closures

- Roadwork and construction

- Travel time delays associated with traffic reports (look for the orange glowing icons)

- Current traffic speeds

- Roadside camera images and live video capabilities

- Road weather information

- Snow plow camera images

- Rest area locations including real-time truck parking availability for select state-run rest areas

- Electronic roadway sign messages

Learn about Minnesota's Law on wireless communication devices in vehicles at https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/statutes/?id=169.475

The MnDOT privacy policy can be found at http://www.dot.state.mn.us/information/disclaimer.html#privacy

Drive safely!

Note: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

Ratings and reviews

After update, app is almost useless now. The where to bar on the bottom is fixed there and cannot be hidden. The ledger is in a separate menu and not easily accessible quickly. And the biggest flaw is they only show major roads now. None of the blacktops and county roads I drive everyday have any information available for them. I want to be able to open the app and see all of the roads in my area like it used to be. It constantly crashes. BRING BACK THE OLD STYLE!!!! The Iowa app is far better!

Roads are always listed as green/normal driving conditions. I work in North Dakota and drive 210 daily to work. Do not trust this app for any information. 210 was closed and on the app it still listed as green/normal driving conditions. This app only updates every three hours and I don't know of any weather conditions that only change every three hours. It should be updated at least every 15 minutes.

Great recent improvements, but some serious issues, too. After the major updates dropped, I looked around in the app. Lots of great new features. Some annoying ones too, though. One is the Where To? box sitting at the bottom of the map. I'll never use it and you can't get rid of it. Also, I created an account and saved a bunch of settings. I got a new phone and now I can't log in. I tried the Forgot Password several times but kept getting an error.

What's new

- New buttons that allow users to quickly update the info shown on the map.
- Streamlined phone number verification.
- Improvements to the "hands-free-eyes-free" feature.
- Minnesota/St. Paul metro area and farther away if they are outside the metro area.
- Added Future Construction layer for users to view reports of upcoming work.
- App will also now report future weather warnings issues by the NWS.
- Added dots to road condition reports to indicate level of low visibility.