July 25, 2016: The US 63 Mississippi River crossing, officially known as the Eisenhower Bridge, as seen from a marina on the Wisconsin side.
In unintentional conjunction with the US 54 bridge blog post, “my highway” is going to get a new Mississippi River crossing too. Construction on a new bridge for US 63 at Red Wing MN, which crosses above US 61 and the river entering Wisconsin, will start next year. The new bridge will be built right by the old one.
This means that three superstructured bridges on the Upper Mississippi River — US 52, US 54, and US 63 — will be replaced in a five-year span (2016-20). The 63 bridge is by far the newest of the three, opening days before the election of 1960.
John A. Weeks has an extensive photo gallery of the 63 bridge, including some taken from the bluff overlooking Red Wing.