Afton To Prescott
The St. Croix flows unfettered between the Interstate 94 bridge at Hudson and the two bridges at Prescott, Wisconsin. In this stretch, the river is broad and hemmed in by hills with little or no floodplain. There are numerous sandy beaches, fine for swimming. Afton is a village on the Minnesota side in the midst of this stretch of river.
The St. Croix in Prescott, Wisconsin passes under a highway bridge and a railroad bridge and then flows into the Mississippi. Immediately upriver from Prescott is Lake St. Croix. The lake is formed by Point Douglas, a long, narrow spit of land in Minnesota that forces the river into the narrow channel that passes under the bridges.
Marina in Afton, Minnesota. Wisconsin is across the river in the background.
Looking south, or downriver, from the tip of the dock area of the marina in Afton
The St. Croix looking downstream from Kinnickinnic State Park in Wisconsin
The mouth of the Kinnickinnic River. The St. Croix River is in the background.
Beach at Kinnickinnic State Park in Wisconsin
Beach at Kinnickinnic State Park in Wisconsin
Looking upriver or north from the beach at Kinnickinnic St. Park in Wisconsin.
A quiet evening on Lake St. Croix
Under a bridge at Prescott
The highway bridge is in the foreground. The railroad bridge is behind the highway bridge. Prescott is to the left or east.
The railroad bridge over the St. Croix at Prescott. The Mississippi is beyond the bridge.
And over the village slipped the days, passing into the nights; the weeks flowed by, the months crept on, the wind howled, and, glassified with an autumnal, translucent, greenish-azure, the Don flowed tranquilly down to the sea.
- Mikhail Sholokhov, And Quiet Flows the Don