Gaylord boxes in St. Croix County, WI

St. Croix County is Wisconsin's side of the metro. Hudson, across the river on I-94, is its largest town, and its growth runs along the interstate corridor into Wisconsin.

St. Croix County is the one county on the desk outside Minnesota. Hudson sits across the river on the interstate, and a Wisconsin address on a request is a normal thing here. Put the state and the ZIP on the request so the delivery is planned across the river from the start.

St. Croix, WI County at a glance

St. Croix County's page gives 93,536 people at the 2020 census and 97,954 at the 2025 estimate over 736 square miles. The St. Croix River forms its western border with Minnesota, and Hudson is the county seat, with New Richmond, Glenwood City and River Falls the other cities named. Of those, River Falls is listed as mostly in neighbouring Pierce County. The county is 736 square miles of land and water together, and only 13 of those square miles are water.

Roads named are Interstate 94, U.S. 12 and 63, and Wisconsin 29, 35, 46, 64, 65, 128 and 170, and the page lists Canadian National and Union Pacific among its railroads.

Hudson's own page, the county seat, gives 14,755 people at the 2020 census, up 16.0 percent from 12,719 in 2010 and from 8,775 in 2000, with a median household income of $74,207 in the 2016 to 2020 survey. It says the lumber industry was the area's prime attraction, with sawmills across the St. Croix Valley, and it describes tourism and restaurants in the historic downtown on the St. Croix and hotels and businesses serving Interstate 94 traffic, and notes that the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway, formed in 1881, had its shops and headquarters in Hudson on a route that is now part of the Union Pacific. U.S. 12 once crossed the river there on a toll bridge removed when Interstate 94 was built; the old causeway is now a pedestrian walkway called The Dike.

Roads and rail

I-94 crosses the St. Croix River at Hudson, which makes the county the metro's Wisconsin gateway.

The St. Croix, WI ledger

The largest towns are Hudson.

Crossing the river

A delivery into Wisconsin crosses a state line and a river, and both can change a route. Check with us about the day, and give the dock hours on the request. A site that cannot take a trailer should say so; a van run is a different plan.

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