The MN-23 bridge at Fond du Lac is the final highway crossing over the St. Louis River in the Twin Ports area. MN-23 is known as Veterans Evergreen Memorial Highway in this area. The north side of the bridge connects to the Fond du Lac neighborhood of Duluth. The south side connects to rural Wisconsin. The river has two channels at this location, the photo above shows the northern most channel. Only about half of the bridge is visible in that photo. There is a very nice city park on the north side of the bridge that offers a great view of the structure. From this point and up river to I-35 lies the Jay Cooke State Park.

An interesting quirk of geography happens with MN-23 south of this bridge. The Wisconsin and Minnesota state line is an arbitrary vertical line, with Minnesota on the west and Wisconsin on the East. That line runs north until it hits the St. Louis River. As it turns out, that line intersects the St. Louis River just slightly west of this bridge. MN-23 runs on a diagonal to the southwest. As a result, MN-23 enters Wisconsin on the south end of this bridge, and continues though Wisconsin for about half a mile. This section of MN-23 in Wisconsin is very far away from any other Wisconsin maintained highways. As a result, the two states have an agreement where they kind of pretend that this did not happen. That is, the road is maintained by the state of Minnesota, it is signed as MN-23, and there are no state line signs to indicate that you passed through Wisconsin, ever so briefly as it may be.