Minnesota State-to-State Movers

50STATE MOVERS INC box truck in its own livery parked at the front door of a house on delivery day after a Minnesota move

Blue floor runner laid from the front door through the entry of a Minnesota home on moving day

Sofas, tables and a mattress blanket-wrapped and shrink-wrapped, ready to carry out of a Minnesota home

Blanket-wrapped furniture and wardrobe cartons stacked and strapped in tiers inside the truck

The day itself

Your Minnesota load, step by step.

Photographs of our Minnesota movers at work: the four parts of your day, in order.

Protection goes down first

Walkways covered and corners padded before the first carry out.
Nothing travels bare

Every piece gets a blanket and shrink, not just the obvious fragiles.
Strapped for the miles

Built in strapped tiers, because a load that cannot shift cannot rub.
At the far end

Placed where you want it at the far end, on the date we committed to.

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Coverage

We service every city, village, and town in Minnesota and deliver to any state. Call +1 (888) 505-1086.

Coverage here isn't limited to the big cities. If you don't see your town below, ask anyway: most addresses in Minnesota sit on an existing route. Call +1 (888) 505-1086 and we'll confirm the truck can reach you first.

Minneapolis

St. Paul

Rochester

Duluth

Bloomington

Brooklyn Park

Woodbury

Plymouth

Lakeville

Blaine

Maple Grove

St. Cloud

Eagan

Burnsville

Coon Rapids

Eden Prairie

Apple Valley

Edina

Minnetonka

St. Louis Park

Shakopee

Mankato

Moorhead

Cottage Grove

Maplewood

Richfield

Inver Grove Heights

Roseville

Andover

Savage

Brooklyn Center

Fridley

Chaska

Ramsey

Oakdale

Prior Lake

Rosemount

Elk River

Owatonna

Shoreview

Austin

Winona

Chanhassen

Faribault

Farmington

White Bear Lake

Otsego

Champlin

Lino Lakes

Columbia Heights

What we do

Pick the level of help you want.

Minnesota's mix leans toward packing and storage. Winter moves need goods protected from extreme cold as much as from handling, spring load restrictions can delay access to a property by weeks, and the state's fall outflow to Arizona and Florida generates steady storage-in-transit volume.

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Long Distance

Interstate and cross-country moving, end to end. We plan the lane, handle the paperwork, and unpack you at the other side.
White Glove

Our highest tier of service. Packed, carried, unpacked, placed — down to the pictures back on the walls before the crew leaves.
Residential

From studio apartments to five-bedroom homes. We disassemble, transport, and reassemble — and we never leave before everything's in its place.
Commercial

Commercial relocations run overnight or across a weekend, so the business closes on Friday in one building and opens on Monday in the next.
Packing & Crating

Museum-grade packing for art, antiques, and anything fragile. We build custom crates on site when off-the-shelf won't do.
Storage

Climate-controlled, 24-hour-monitored units in secure facilities. Short-term overflow or long-term, fully insured and inventoried throughout.

Two 50STATEMOVERS crew carrying a blanket-wrapped item up the ramp into a loaded truck, moving blankets and cartons stacked inside

Pricing

What shapes the price of a Minnesota move.

Anyone quoting a Minnesota move sight-unseen is estimating, and estimates get revised at delivery. So rather than a rate card, here is what actually decides the number. All of it appears as a line in your written quote, and the total on that quote is the total you pay.

01Distance and lane

Your route sets the floor. Our Minnesota lanes run from about 350 miles to Wisconsin out to roughly 1,780 miles to California. Sharing a trailer with other households costs less than a dedicated truck; a dedicated truck buys you a delivery date instead of a spread.

02Access at both ends

How close the truck can park is half the labour. Narrow streets, walk-ups, booked-out service elevators, city permits, and shuttling from a legal parking spot in a smaller vehicle all take crew hours. We measure the approach at both ends during the survey, not on the morning of the move.

03How much packing you want

How much of the packing you hand over is yours to decide, and it changes both the price and the odds of a clean delivery. Cartons built for a cross-country haul are packed differently from ones carried down the street. Plenty of customers pack their own clothes and books and leave us the kitchen, the artwork, and the fragile shelf. Crating for oversized or valuable pieces is a separate line.

04Storage between dates

A gap between handing over one set of keys and getting the next is normal. Storage-in-transit covers it: goods stay inventoried and sealed until your date, with the holding cost agreed before the truck loads. For furniture, instruments, and electronics, pay for the climate control.

05Valuation and protection

Two levels of protection exist on any state-line move. Released value is included by law at no charge and is calculated by weight. Full Value Protection is the paid upgrade: repair, like-for-like replacement, or cash at current market value, and the right answer for a household carrying real value.

Local notes

What Minnesota does to a moving schedule.

Local conditions decide how a Minnesota move actually runs. These are the four that come up on almost every job we book here.

STEP 01

Roads & access

I-35 and I-94 cross at the Twin Cities and handle nearly all long-haul volume. Suburban access is easy; the older Minneapolis and St. Paul neighborhoods — Uptown, Como, Cathedral Hill — have narrow streets, alley garages, and winter parking rules that restrict where a truck can stop. Snow emergency routes are strictly enforced and will get a truck towed. Northern lake properties often have long unpaved drives with seasonal limits. Main corridors: I-35, I-94, I-494, I-694, US-169.

STEP 02

Timing your move

Peak is May through August. Winter is quiet but demands real preparation: subzero loading requires shorter crew rotations, extra floor protection for snow and salt, and care with anything brittle or liquid. Snow emergency declarations in Minneapolis and St. Paul change parking rules overnight. Spring load restrictions from roughly March through May limit axle weights on many roads, which can force a shuttle.

STEP 03

Who is moving, and why

Minnesota's net migration is modestly negative, with retirees and remote workers leaving for Arizona, Florida, and Texas, and a steady inbound flow of professionals into the Twin Cities for healthcare, medical devices, and corporate headquarters. Rochester grows on Mayo Clinic expansion. Duluth and the Iron Range have their own economic cycle, and the lake country north of Brainerd has gained from second-home conversion.

STEP 04

Licensing to check

Interstate moves out of Minnesota are federal: look for an active USDOT number and FMCSA authority. Ours are USDOT #4575745 and MC-1820728. Movers operating only inside the state answer instead to the Minnesota Department of Transportation Office of Freight and Commercial Vehicle Operations — a registration that is not authority to take your belongings across the line.

Good to know

What catches people out in Minnesota.

Three recurring ways a Minnesota move gets costlier than expected. None of them are surprises to us; we check each one before the quote is written.

Snow emergency parking rules

When Minneapolis or St. Paul declares a snow emergency, side-of-street parking rules change immediately and enforcement is aggressive. We track declarations and adjust truck staging rather than risk a tow mid-move.

Spring load restrictions

MnDOT and counties post seasonal axle-weight limits during the thaw. A loaded trailer may be legally barred from your street in April. We check the postings and plan around them.

Extreme cold handling

At -10°F, LCD screens, vinyl records, houseplants, liquids, and some adhesives are at genuine risk. We flag these at survey and either move them in a heated compartment or recommend you carry them.

FAQ

Leaving Minnesota: your questions, answered.

The answers people ask for before committing to a Minnesota move with any interstate movers.

Can you move in a Minnesota winter?

Yes, and it is the easiest time of year to get the date you want. We use shorter crew rotations in extreme cold, heavy floor protection for snow and salt, and a heated compartment for cold-sensitive items. The main variables are snow emergency parking rules and occasional blizzard delays.

How long does a move from Minnesota to Arizona take?

Minneapolis to Phoenix is roughly 1,800 miles — 7 to 12 days consolidated, 3 to 4 days dedicated. This is a heavy fall lane with snowbird volume, so booking early for October and November matters.

What are spring load restrictions?

From roughly March through May, MnDOT and Minnesota counties limit axle weights on roads weakened by the frost leaving the ground. A fully loaded moving trailer can be legally prohibited from your street. We check postings for your address and shuttle where required.

Do you handle Mayo Clinic relocations to Rochester?

Yes. Medical relocations usually come with a fixed start date, so we run those as dedicated shipments with a delivery date rather than a spread, and provide the documentation most institutional relocation policies require.

Are moving companies in Minnesota required to be licensed?

Yes — and the licence you need depends on where the truck is going. Crossing a state line requires an active USDOT number plus interstate operating authority from the FMCSA. Ours are USDOT #4575745 and MC-1820728; both are public on the FMCSA's SAFER database, and you should look them up before any money changes hands.

Purely local movers hold a the Minnesota Department of Transportation Office of Freight and Commercial Vehicle Operations registration rather than federal authority. The difference is not paperwork pedantry — an intrastate-only registration does not permit anyone to carry your household out of Minnesota, and it is the gap we most often find in quotes customers ask us to look over. Two further questions are worth asking anyone: whether the quoted price is binding or an estimate open to revision on delivery day, and whether you are hiring a carrier or a broker. We own the trucks, employ the crew, and quote binding fixed prices.

Where we go

Nearby states & popular destinations.

Anywhere in the lower 48 is a lane for our movers from Minnesota. These are simply the common pairings, and each state has a guide of its own on what delivery there involves.

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Your Minnesota load, step by step.

Protection goes down first

Nothing travels bare

Strapped for the miles

At the far end

We service every city, village, and town in Minnesota and deliver to any state. Call +1 (888) 505-1086.

Pick the level of help you want.

Long Distance

White Glove

Residential

Commercial

Packing & Crating

Storage