Regional Slip-Form Sidewalk Test Crescent

Norvold, Minnesota · Infrastructure · est.

The test crescent seen from the gravel pull-off, with the labeled sidewalk sections curving away from the shed.Photo: Kevin Dorsey

Nineteen curved sidewalk segments, each poured to a slightly different radius and finish, remain in a grassy arc beside the former District 6 materials shed outside Norvold. A fading county sign attributes the site to the Upper Prairie Pedestrian Facilities Review Board, which appears to have used the crescent to compare early slip-form concrete equipment against hand-set forms sometime in the late 1980s. The hook detail is a row of small aluminum plaques, several still legible, with terse labels such as "broom drag after light mist" and "school-route edge, revised." The site is plainly maintained just enough to keep the weeds down, but the pull-off gate was chained on a recent weekday and no posted number answered.

Field File · Pending Full Documentation

This location has been reported to Slop Obscura but not yet formally documented. A correspondent has been assigned, pending mileage reimbursement. Details above reflect the original report and have not been improved.