Minnesota State Highway 270 (MN 270) is a 7.659-mile-long (12.326 km) state highway in the southwest corner of Minnesota, which runs from its intersection with County State-Aid Highway 13 (CSAH 13) in the city of Hills, and continues east to its eastern terminus at its intersection with U.S. Highway 75 (US 75) in Clinton Township, eight miles (13 km) south of Luverne.
[citation needed] MN 270 serves as a short east–west connector route in southwest Minnesota between Hills and US 75.
The western terminus of Highway 270 at Hills is located approximately four miles (6.4 km) from the South Dakota state line and two miles (3.2 km) from the Iowa state line.
[3] The highway is legally defined as Route 270 in the Minnesota Statutes.
[1] Originally, the highway turned southward along present-day CSAH 11 and back east on a local road to pass through Steen.