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

It was better when they showed the detour routes for road construction. Can't find that now. I run a lot of the back roads and it helped out a lot last summer. Now can't find the detours route and that is costing me time and money. Had a detour take me over 60 miles out of the way and if I known the route I could have taken i different route that was only 10 miles. Not happy with the new setup

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.

MUCH harder to use--cluttered up with unimportant icons. The Dark-theme makes it really hard to read road and place names. With the previous version, you could see at a glance where the traffic incidents and road construction areas were, as well as the road conditions. This version is full of visual clutter yet it's hard to find construction information. For example, a major lane closure that was identified on Lexington Avenue in the old version isn't identified at all. Terrible app!

What's new

Updated the app to allow users with special permissions to indicate when a work zone is active.