A 26 foot wide bridge was replaced in 1955 with a 34 1/2 foot wide bridge,
spanning 35 feet, across the Middle Fork of the Crow River in conjunction
with the rebuilding of Highway 4, which the project also included cleaning
out the river beneath it (the Middle Fork is unusually straight and appeared
that a channel had been dredged for quite some ways both upstream and
downstream as the typical flood plain is wide around the river with a 1952
crest of 1124.9 feet above sea level, though no county records exist of the
prior dredging undertaking.

At 1128.8 feet above sea level, the bridge sustains an average traffic count
of approximately 900 vehicles per day.
per day.