Highway 25 Bridge (Minnesota)

Monticello Highway Bridge
Coordinates	45°18′31″N 93°47′29″W / 45.30861°N 93.79139°W
Carries	Four lanes of MN 25
Crosses	Mississippi River
Locale	Monticello, Minnesota
Maintained by	Minnesota Department of Transportation
ID number	71012
Characteristics
Design	Concrete girder bridge
Total length	1007 feet
Width	68 feet
Longest span	111 feet
Clearance below	24 feet
History
Opened	1988

Highway 25 Bridge is a concrete girder bridge that spans the Mississippi River between Monticello, Minnesota and Big Lake, Minnesota. It was built in 1988 by the Minnesota Department of Transportation and was designed by VanDoren Hazard Stallings.

The previous bridge in this location, built in 1930, was a humpback truss bridge with a decorative wrought iron railing. One unique feature about the 1930 bridge was that it had restrooms built into the bridge, underneath the sidewalk in the southwest corner next to the bridge abutment. The restrooms were closed in 1962 when it was determined that they could not easily be connected to the new sewage treatment plant. Replacement restrooms were built in the nearby park.

The first bridge built at Monticello over the Mississippi River was completed in 1893.^[1] It was a wooden swing-span bridge, which could swing to allow river vessels to pass along the river.

See also

• List of crossings of the Upper Mississippi River

References

1. Princeton Union newspaper. Princeton, Minnesota. Thursday, June 11, 1893. Volume 17, Number 21. Page 2, Column 5.

• Costello, Mary Charlotte (2002). Climbing the Mississippi River Bridge by Bridge, Volume Two: Minnesota. Cambridge, MN: Adventure Publications. ISBN 0-9644518-2-4.