Prescott drawbridge

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Prescott Drawbridge
Official name Prescott Highway Bridge
Carries U.S. Route 10
Crosses St. Croix River (Wisconsin-Minnesota)
Locale Minnesota-Wisconsin Border
ID number 82010
Design steel girder with double-leaf drawbridge
Total length 672 feet (205 meters)
Width 54 feet (16 meters), 4 lanes
Height 20 feet (6 meters)
AADT 13000/day
Opening date 1990
Coordinates 44°44′56″N, 92°48′17″W

The Prescott Drawbridge, also called the Point Douglas Drawbridge is a steel girder bridge with a double-leaf drawbridge section. The roadbed of the drawbridge span is a steel grate. The bridge crosses the St. Croix River and connects Prescott, Wisconsin with Point Douglas, Minnesota. This is the only drawbridge in the Minneapolis-St.Paul area. It was completed in 1990 and replaced a rare regional example of a Waddell and Harrington vertical lift bridge completed in 1922 which operated as a toll bridge from 1923-1946.

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