State Highway 30 serves as an east–west route between Pipestone, Slayton, St. James, Stewartville, Chatfield, and Rushford.

The park is located immediately north of the town of Currie and northeast of Slayton.

Highway 30 passes through the Richard J. Dorer Memorial Hardwood State Forest in Olmsted and Fillmore counties.

It replaced former State Highway 41 from Blooming Prairie to Hayfield.

[11] It was extended west to the South Dakota state line and east to Highway 4 north of St. James in 1933.