The Minnesota River runs along the west side of the small city of Le Sueur, Minnesota. The main entrance to the city from the west is via MN-93, which crosses the Minnesota River as it enters the city. MN-93 was once the main route of US-169 between Henderson and Le Sueur, but that changed when the new 4-lane section of US-169 was built. This bridge replaces an earlier truss bridge at the same location.

While the MN-93 bridge is highly functional, there has been no attempt what-so-ever to dress up the bridge. It is about a run of the mill as a modern steel girder bridge can be. One interesting item is a sensor on the west end of the bridge for low clearance. That is interesting because there is no clearance problem on the bridge. It turns out that the sensor is not for the river bridge, but rather, for the Union Pacific railroad bridge over MN-93 on the east end of the river crossing. The photo above was taken from that location. This railroad bridge is also rather narrow. Rather than building the highway bridge narrow to match, the highway bridge was built the proper width. This makes the bridge ready in the event that the railroad bridge is eventually replaced. In the mean time, a funky little guard rail sits at an angle to the edge of the bridge to protect the corner of the railroad bridge that extends close to the traffic lane.

Le Sueur is famous as the home of the Mayo family. Dr. William Worrall Mayo was a moved to Le Sueur in the mid 1850s. He established his first medical practice on Main Street in Le Sueur. He later moved to Rochester with his two sons, William and Charles, and they eventually established the Mayo Clinic.