Prescott Drawbridge

Prescott Drawbridge
Prescott Drawbridge
	The bridge in 2009
Coordinates	44°44′56″N 92°48′17″W
Carries	US 10
Crosses	St. Croix River (Wisconsin-Minnesota)
Locale	Prescott, Wisconsin and Denmark Township, Minnesota
Official name	Prescott Highway Bridge
Other name(s)	Prescott Drawbridge
ID number	82010
Characteristics
Design	steel girder with double-leaf bascule draw span
Total length	672 feet (205 meters)
Width	54 feet (16 meters), 4 lanes
Height	20 feet (6 meters)
History
Opened	1990
Statistics
Daily traffic	13000/day

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-St.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.

Gallery

The 1922–1990 vertical lift bridge
Aerial view of the 1990 bridge and adjacent BNSF Railway vertical-lift bridge

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External links

Current bridge

Point Douglas Draw Bridge at MSP Bridges

Previous bridge

Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress) - Survey number HAER WI-61
Prescott Bridge (1922) at Structurae

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