Then we visited the mid-1800s town of Stillwater on the St Croix River.
This area is an easy communting shot to Minneapolis-St Paul were it not that this is the only way to cross the river within 20 miles and hence is a real rush hour bottleneck.
This is a lift-bridge too, very close to the river, which only makes matters so much worse for the traffic but kinda cool for the tourists. Mark says in the winter folks just drive across the ice!