LACRESCENT, Minn. – The Wagon Wheel Trail Bridge was opened officially, connecting river-level Lower LaCrescent with the rest of the city up on a plateau.The bridge offers safe pedestrian passage across combined  \14/61. Eventually the bridge will become part of the Wagon Wheel Trail linking La Crescent to La Crosse as a trail for  hikers and bikers.

Earlier: Trail-linking LaCrescent bridge set to open

Lots of scissors. Just about everybody who’s anybody got a snip at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new pedestrian bridge.