Highway 24 Bridge

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Highway 24 Bridge

Carries	Two lanes of Minnesota State Highway 24
Crosses	Mississippi River
Locale	Clearwater, Minnesota
Maintained by	Minnesota Department of Transportation
ID number	6557
Design	Steel girder bridge
Longest span	148 feet
Total length	1144 feet
Width	38 feet
Clearance below	42 feet
Opening date	1958
Coordinates	45°25′04″N, 93°02′37″W

The Highway 24 Bridge is a steel girder bridge that spans the Mississippi River between Clearwater, Minnesota and Clear Lake, Minnesota. It was designed and built in 1958 by the Minnesota Department of Transportation. The bridge is longer than any other bridge upstream of the Richard P. Braun Bridge in Coon Rapids, Minnesota. This is because the Highway 24 bridge crosses a river road and three spans of floodplain before actually crossing the Mississippi.

[edit] See also

• List of crossings of the Upper Mississippi River

[edit] References

• Costello, Mary Charlotte (2002). Climbing the Mississippi River Bridge by Bridge, Volume Two: Minnesota. Cambridge, MN: Adventure Publications. ISBN 0-9644518-2-4.

Bridges of the Mississippi River
Upstream University Bridge	Highway 24 Bridge	Downstream Highway 25 Bridge