Stillwater Bridge lift schedule ends for the season

Author:: BMTN Staff
Publish date:: Oct 23, 2013

The summer lift schedule for the Stillwater Lift Bridge has come to an end, so boaters who need to get under the span will have to make a special request 24 hours ahead of time, the Minnesota Department of Transportation says.

During the warm-weather season, the bridge maintains a lift schedule in which the bridge is raised at regular intervals during the day. But that ended at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday.

The two-lane, 1,050-foot span that takes Highway 36 over the St. Croix River from Stillwater, Minn., to Wisconsin will sit in the down position until spring. The lift schedule starts up again typically around May 15.

Construction on a new bridge, dubbed the St. Croix River Crossing project, that is to replace the 82-year-old Stillwater Lift Bridge less than a mile downriver began this year. That bridge is scheduled for completion in 2016.

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Drivers will once again be able to cross the Stillwater Lift Bridge in about a month. The bridge, which connects Minnesota and Wisconsin across the St. Croix River, closed Sept. 10 for the rehabilitation project.

The Stillwater Lift Bridge will close Monday for four months while MnDot crews make repairs. The bridge will not reopen until late December. The lift span will open to boat traffic on Sundays from Oct. 15 through Nov. 5 and will also not open again until late December.

A $3.6 million project that starts September 10th will keep the bridge out of commission for four months and will disrupt some of the boat traffic on the St. Croix.

The Stillwater lift bridge is shutting down Monday for three months of repairs. Many in the city find it a relief to be freed from the traffic congestion of Wisconsin commuters. Some consider it a preview of what life will be like once a new St. Croix River bridge opens in Oak Park Heights in another four or five years.