This is the westernmost of 3 places where US-212 crosses the Minnesota River. In this crossing, just south of the city of Montevideo, the highway is multiplexed with US-59. This is one of the most heavily used bridges on the upper Minnesota River, with the US-212 bridge in Granite Falls seeing about the same average number of vehicles per day. Oddly, the rural US-212 bridge located between these two heavily used bridges sees only about 40% of the traffic levels that the two city bridges support. This suggests that over half of the traffic on these bridges are local, and only about 1/3 is long haul traffic.

This bridge is a modern prestressed concrete girder bridge. It has 2 large piers resulting in 3 spans of about 100 feet each. These are typical span lengths for a concrete girder. The deck is very wide for bridges in this area. The reason is that the highway is changing from 4-lanes just north of this bridge to being a 2 lane highway heading west. The bridge was built to support 4 lanes. It also has the modern slanted guardrails, and a sidewalk that is projected from the traffic lanes. While this bridge supports no decorative elements, the sweeping curve makes it a bridge to remember.

Montevideo is the location of a gravity hill. This is a location where due to some unknown force, cars will roll up hill. The actual location is the ramp to MN-7 from 1st Street. As it turns out, the unknown force is actually an optical illusion caused by an odd or unusual orientation of the land that makes what is actually a slight downhill appear to be an uphill. The cars appear to roll up hill, but in reality, it is a slight down hill.