Prescott Drawbridge
Prescott Drawbridge | |
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| Carries | File:US 10.svg US 10 |
| Crosses | St. Croix River (Wisconsin-Minnesota) |
| Locale | Prescott, Wisconsin and Denmark Township, Minnesota |
| Official name | Prescott Highway Bridge |
| Other name | Prescott Drawbridge |
| ID number | 82010 |
| Characteristics | |
| Design | steel girder with double-leaf bascule draw span |
| Total length | 672 feet (205 m) |
| Width | 54 feet (16 m), 4 lanes |
| Height | 20 feet (6.1 m) |
| History | |
| Opened | 1990 |
| Statistics | |
| Daily traffic | 13000/day |
| Location | |
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The Prescott Drawbridge, also called the Point Douglas Drawbridge, is a steel girder bridge with a double-leaf bascule drawbridge section. The roadbed of the drawbridge span is a steel grate. The bridge carries U.S. 10 across the St. Croix River and connects Prescott, Wisconsin, with the Point Douglas park area of Denmark Township, Minnesota. This is the only highway drawbridge in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area with active traffic. It was completed in 1990 and replaced a rare regional example of a Waddell & Harrington vertical-lift bridge completed in 1922 that operated as a toll bridge from 1923 to 1946.[1] The environmental impact statement, published in 1979, considered a higher level fixed bridge at this location.[2]
Adjacent to the road bridge, the BNSF Railway St. Croix Subdivision crosses the St. Croix river on a Vertical-lift bridge.
Gallery
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The 1922–1990 vertical lift bridge
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Aerial view of the 1990 bridge and adjacent BNSF Railway vertical-lift bridge
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BNSF Lift Bridge, Prescott, Wisconsin
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See also
[edit | edit source]- List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Minnesota
- List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Wisconsin
References
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Current bridge
[edit | edit source]Previous bridge
[edit | edit source]- Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. WI-61, "Prescott Bridge, Spanning St. Croix River on U.S. Highway 10, Prescott, Pierce County, WI", 25 photos, 42 data pages, 1 photo caption page
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- Road bridges in Minnesota
- Vertical lift bridges in the United States
- Vertical lift bridges in Minnesota
- Bascule bridges in the United States
- U.S. Route 10
- Road bridges in Wisconsin
- Bridges completed in 1922
- Bridges completed in 1990
- Bridges of the United States Numbered Highway System
- Great River Road
- Historic American Engineering Record in Minnesota
- Historic American Engineering Record in Wisconsin
- Interstate vehicle bridges in the United States
- Former toll bridges in Minnesota
- Former toll bridges in Wisconsin
- Towers in Wisconsin
- Steel bridges in the United States
- Girder bridges in the United States
- Bridges over the St. Croix River (Wisconsin–Minnesota)