This bridge over the Mississippi River is the traditional delineator that splits the United States…read morein half. Yes, the Mississippi starts somewhere up not too far north from here in Minnesota at Lake Itasca and flows south to New Orleans. This is where the east meets the west in the north. This bridge carries Interstate 90 and joins La Crosse Wisconsin to Dresbach Minnesota. It was fully opened to traffic in October 2016, replacing a previous 1967 plate girder bridge. The bridge consists of a pair of parallel, concrete box girder structures over the main river channel and precast concrete girder structures over the back channels. The bridge has two lanes in each direction and includes 18 feet of shoulders inside and outside. The bridge is rather boring with few features or accoutrements but it gets the job done. There is no toll in either direction. I've also crossed the Mississippi in Cairo https://www.yelp.com/biz/i-57-bridge-cairo?hrid=JF0q8MwMYungXJVSOhfg3g, Memphis https://www.yelp.com/biz/memphis-and-arkansas-bridge-marion?hrid=09JRv_jh6CzQLjxU6X4ACg, Greenville https://www.yelp.com/biz/greenville-bridge-lake-village?hrid=WGXvzX4AagbXz9LLRId8Pg and Vicksburg https://www.yelp.com/biz/mississippi-river-bridge-vicksburg?hrid=0YJFnhUafyNWCYBI-q1jSQ. [Review 17169 overall - 181 in Wisconsin - 686 of 2022.]

Don't blink...you'll drive right past it. There is a small area to park, just careful pulling out.read more

Great piece of local history! Worth taking the time to stop and read about the cut...but be…read morecareful of you walk out into tje road to get a better picture because the xars can come up fast!

So, the house, what you can see of it: 5 stars. It's gorgeous and everything is well preserved…read more Why the 2 stars though? Three reasons: 1. I would post pics showing what it looks like but no photography is allowed. I thought the one woman was going to bat my phone out of my hand when I took it out to take a pic. It is 2019; 80 year old grandmothers have smartphones with cameras. If it's about flash photography, say so and let me take pics without the flash. Otherwise, a restriction on photography gets you an immediate downvote in my book. 2. You see three rooms and you can't even go in and look around, it's all roped off. 3. None of the guides knew anything beyond their script. Anytime anyone asked a question they said they didn't know the answer. Why are you working here if you don't know half the questions people are asking? Beautiful house, what you can see of it. I got in free with a tour but based on my time there today would never pay to go inside.

Fantastic tour, house is preserved so well and you can tell the staff/volunteers have a lot of…read morerespect for its history. Well worth the ticket cost. Tour probably an hour or longer and so much detail!!!

Josh made me feel like Julia Roberts in Pretty Women. He made me feel unwelcome and like I wouldn't…read morehave enough money to pay for a headstone for my father. His tone of voice and his overall responsiveness made me feel like I was burdening him with a specific design. A design that was actually inspired by one of their works in the office. Josh had to make a phone call to the place that my father was buried to double check on size and unfortunately, the place was closed and will re-open until Oct 2. But he did say that there would be a time from 2-4PM where a person will be present to answer any general questions and he clearly said he would get in touch with me. Plus, he wanted me to email him a better photo of the custom designs on the headstone. So maybe he was just tired that day or it wasn't his day. But still.... it wasn't a very good experience. I currently live in Boston and would have liked a follow up. He never emailed, never called. I called today and again... it's the same feeling as if I'm creating a burden on him by asking a simple question. I will wait to see how things go, but never have I ever felt so passively aggressively be-littled by someone. I just want to create a headstone for my father and I'm willing to pay and give you business. The situation is already hard enough. All I ask is kindness.

This was a sentimental visit for me. I've wanted to see the Little House in the Big Woods for…read moredecades. The site is open access. You park and can go right up to the house, day or night, any time of year. The door uses a rope latch system and there's a sign asking people to keep the door shut. The interior is small, but there's an information wall that's a good excuse to linger and read. The original cabin, of course, was long gone before the books were even published, and this new version was the result of a fundraising campaign in the 1970s.

Wonderful museum and super friendly staff. My mom, grandmother, and I had a wonderful timeread more

In most places when you will cross the Mississippi River and journey from one state to another…read more Here in La Crosse, this section of the river is entirely in Wisconsin and you won't be at the border to Minnesota for another mile or so. There are two spans here, with the upriver (westbound) being the Cass Street Bridge and the downriver (eastbound) is the Cameron Avenue Bridge. They connect downtown La Crosse with Barron Island. It is only when you are on the La Crosse West Channel Bridge and you go from Barron Island to cross into La Crescent Minnesota. The Cass Street Bridge (the one that I drove heading west) opened in 1939 and replaced a swing bridge that was damaged in 1935. It is a cantilever bridge 17 panel rivet-connected warren through truss with a a total length of 2532 feet and a width of 30 feet. There is 67 feet of clearance below to the Mississippi. It is paired with the Cameron Avenue bridge that is more modern and opened in 2004. If you're here, do check out the deck truss approach spans which are curved. Another interesting feature is the stairways that are midway along the approach spans at each end of the bridge and allow pedestrians to climb up to the bridge sidewalk. The western stairway includes a crossover stairway that passes under the deck truss allowing pedestrians to switch which sidewalk they are walking on without walking across the roadway. [Review 20711 overall - 280 in Wisconsin - 1692 of 2023.]

For such a cool building with great potential to be a top notch get away, this property sadly falls…read moreshort. To put it bluntly, the place is very dingey. The building itself is amazing, tall ceilings, open floor plan, etc. I would not suggest it for anyone with any kind of mobility issues as the staircase to the bedrooms is quite steep. It was unclear on the website, that the two bedrooms are located in the basement, which is quite damp and musty (as expected of a basement.) It feels like someone had a great idea to turn this into an Air BnB, but put no effort into the final product. It was not only dirty and dusty, there were basic amenities missing, like complete sheet sets on the beds and toilets that work correctly. When asked about the sheet situation (no top sheets on any beds) the owner made a joke about how silly we were, the duvets are the top sheets.... Am I missing something? I have a duvet, a duvet cover, and a fitted and flat sheet set on my bed, isn't that standard? Besides, neither of the twin beds even had duvet covers on them, just old blankets and an old quilt. My theory is all of the bedding was donated by friends and family and is all just mismatched hand me downs of threadbare linens. The downstairs bathroom had a toilet seat that moved when you sat on it, everyone knows what I'm talking about, the kind that makes you feel like you're going to fall off when you first sit down because it moves suddenly to the side. Tried to tighten the plastic screw below, but I think it was missing. Then the flusher was tricky, it didn't seem attached tightly enough. the handle finally just fell off so we couldn't flush until we got into the tank to fix it ourselves. Unfortunately there was a plastic nut missing from inside the tank so we just had to leave the tank lid off to flush the toilet. The shower had great temperature and pressure, it was just unfortunate that it pointed sideways just past your head, and was probably a 40 year old shower head that was not adjustable. I suppose the shape and location of the shower necessitated the sprayer direction, but a handheld sprayer would've made it so much better. Overall, it was just a very dusty, dingey, musty place. Even the curtains are hung backwards. The pictures of the outside area on the website are not accurate. The patio table and chairs were about 20 yards from the house and were covered in leaves, and you had to walk across a yard of muddy earth covered with rotting black walnuts, not easily traversed for anyone with mobility issues. The BBQ is a mini Weber. This could be such a fun, cool place to stay and wouldn't take much to make it that way, but I don't think there's been much effort since the initial opening 23 years ago. This is a good reminder that you can't always trust what you see and read in advertising and brochures, up close and personal can be a completely different experience. I think this would be a great place for a large group with a lot of kids, but not so much for people who enjoy their comfort away from home.

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Nice trail, but unfortunately flooded due to the rain so could only see 0.2 miles of it.read more

Anyone who tackles this trail must be…read more.. A) A historic bridge enthusiast and fan of engineering design B) The second coming of Aldo Leopold C) Someone off their nut D) A&C E) B&C F) All of the above. Okay, seriously, this is a a fascinating area and quite a trail for nature lovers. Alexander McGilvray saw an opportunity in 1854 and launched a ferry across the Black River. In 1892, the county built a steel bridge across the river, ending the ferry service. Since McGilvray Road went through backwaters of the Black River and a slough, six wooden bridges were built. The moist environment wrecked wooden bridges quickly, so between 1905 and 1908, a series of five bowstring truss bridges were built with one wooden bridge left behind. The road was closed in 1948 due to flooding, and in 1954 the steel bridge was removed. The five bowstring truss bridges remain in place and a fifth pony truss bridge was relocated here to replace the wooden bridge. The maintenance of the old bridges is accomplished with volunteer labor, the Friends of McGilvray Road in partnership with the Wisconsin DNR. Bowstring trusses, one time plentiful, are now rare and only eight examples remain in Wisconsin - five of those eight are on McGilvray Road. As for the hiking, well, nature has pretty much consumed McGilvray Road, popularly known as Seven Bridges Road. It is a hiking trail, being slowly developed by the Friends of McGilvray Road. You can take the 1.8 mile hike to the Black River and experience a piece of La Crosse County history yourself. Dress appropriately and wear good hiking shoes.The day I visited McGilvray Road, I met a couple on the trail. He was wearing sandals. Not smart. She was wearing cross trainers, still not very smart. Both were wearing shorts - really not smart as the mosquitoes were matched in size and maneuverability to a P-38. No motorized vehicles, in fact, no vehicles at all, including no bicycles. As a hiking trail, two stars. As a great example of private and public sector cooperation, four stars, as an example of historic preservation, five stars. Net result - four stars. I'd go back - would you like to join me?