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.

Contents 1 External links 1.1 Current Bridge 1.2 Previous Bridge 2 Gallery

[edit] External links

[edit] Current Bridge

• Point Douglas Draw Bridge at MSP Bridges

[edit] Previous Bridge

• Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress) - Survey number HAER WI-61
• Prescott Bridge (1922) in the Structurae database

[edit] Gallery

1922-1990 vertical lift bridge