This is the location of the old Bloomington Ferry Bridge. The old bridge carried CSAH-18 over the Minnesota River. It was removed in the late 1990's after the new US-169 Bloomington Ferry Bridge opened. A regional tail was constructed in place of the old bridge and the approach road to the old bridge. The new trail bridge is shown in the first two photos.

The old bridge had a sharp right hand turn and steep hill on the north end, and a long approach road on the south end that hugged the river bank. The approach road runs along the river bank in the third photo. The fourth photo shows the trail as it runs along the old highway right-of-way.

The river often flooded and washed out the south approach road. The crossing would be flooded out and closed about one year out of every three. The power of the flood waters can be seen in the fifth and sixth photos, where the water lifted up an entire section of pavement, and floated it off to the side of the trail in one large piece.