MnDOT Says Traffic Impacts Will Be 'Minimal' in Stillwater Over the Fourth of July

A lot of tourists head to Stillwater this week to take in our annual Fourth of July celebration.

In light of construction of the new St. Croix River Crossing Project, MnDOT offers this information up for your friends and family members who are coming into town this week.

The city will be closing the parking lots adjacent to Lowell Park to accommodate viewers.

St. Croix Crossing Highway 36 traffic impacts: 

• All lanes of Highway 36 and Highway 95 in the project area will be open July 4-7. Crews will not work July 4, but will work July 5-6.
• Motorists traveling from eastbound Highway 36 to southbound Highway 95 or northbound Highway 95 to westbound Highway 36 will use a temporary bypass through the construction zone. The area is controlled by flaggers. Drivers may experience slight delays.
• Ongoing impacts on local roads near Highways 36 remain in place.

Other Construction in the East Metro: 

Motorists may want to find alternate routes into Stillwater due to:  

• Highway 36 is closed between Highway 61 and White Bear Avenue for English St. interchange construction.
• Highway 36 has intermittent single-lane traffic in each direction from Interstate 694 to one mile east of De Montreville Trail in Lake Elmo for Hilton Trail interchange construction. 

St. Croix River No Wake Zone (LINK)

• The Department of Natural Resources currently has a no wake zone on the St. Croix River, due to high water levels. This may be lifted at some point during the holiday weekend.
• After the full no wake zone lifts, the Minnesota and Wisconsin departments of Transportation request boaters to not create wakes in the restricted channel between Stillwater and Bayport and to not enter the designated work zone. 

Stillwater Lift Bridge Fourth of July Schedule (LINK): 

• The Stillwater Lift Bridge will remain in the down position at 10:30 p.m. and 11 p.m. to accommodate highway traffic going to and from 4th of July fireworks in Stillwater. The 10 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. lifts for boaters will still take place.