Highway 25 Bridge is a concrete

girder bridge A girder bridge is a bridge that uses girders as the means of supporting its deck. The two most common types of modern steel girder bridges are plate and box. The term "girder" is often used interchangeably with "beam" in reference to bridge de ...

that spans the

Mississippi River The Mississippi River is the second-longest river and chief river of the second-largest drainage system in North America, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system. From its traditional source of Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota, it f ...

between

Monticello, Minnesota Monticello ( ) is a city next to the Mississippi River in Wright County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 14,455 at the 2020 census. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. The city' ...

and

Big Lake, Minnesota Big Lake is a city in Sherburne County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 11,686 at the 2020 census. Facts In 2019 it was named the safest city to live in, and thsecond safest city in 2021with the lowest property crime rate in the sta ...

. It was built in 1988 by the

Minnesota Department of Transportation The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT, ) oversees transportation by all modes including land, water, air, rail, walking and bicycling in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The cabinet-level agency is responsible for maintaining the state' ...

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.''Princeton Union'' newspaper. Princeton, Minnesota. Thursday, June 11, 1893. Volume 17, Number 21. Page 2, Column 5. It was a wooden swing-span bridge, which could swing to allow river vessels to pass along the rive

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* Road bridges in Minnesota Bridges over the Mississippi River Bridges completed in 1930 Bridges completed in 1988 Girder bridges in the United States Concrete bridges in the United States Buildings and structures in Wright County, Minnesota Buildings and structures in Sherburne County, Minnesota {{Minnesota-bridge-struct-stub

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