Stillwater Lift Bridge - Stillwater, MN - Vertical Lift Bridges on Waymarking.com

The Stillwater Bridge (also known as the Stillwater Lift Bridge, St. Croix River Bridge at Stillwater, Mn/DOT Bridge #4654, and Wis/DOT Bridge #M-61) is a vertical lift bridge crossing the St. Croix River between Stillwater, Minnesota and Houlton, Wisconsin.

The bridge consists of ten fixed steel truss spans 1,050 feet long in total, including a vertically lifting span 140 feet long, and carries one lane of traffic in each direction. The lifting span is a Waddell and Harrington type, one of six built in Minnesota and Wisconsin and one of three still remaining today. Built in 1931 to replace a swing bridge from 1910, it was the last bridge of this design to be built in the area. Minnesota and Wisconsin evenly split the $460,174 cost of the bridge.

The Stillwater Bridge is historically significant as a rare surviving example of vertical-lift highway bridge, and over 18,000 vehicles cross the bridge every day.

This bridge is cross-posted as a National Register of Historic Places structure, WM4AGD, and can be logged using the following link: (visit link)

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