Tour Bus Directions

Excelsior Bus Loading/Unloading Instructions

Excelsior welcomes visitors to enjoy our quaint, charming town. Our popularity is a mixed blessing: lots of people add excitement and vitality, and they also bring congestion to our few streets and parking areas.

Many visitors arrive by bus and motor coach, and often they are dropped off for charter boat cruises at the Port of Excelsior, at the base of water street. Parking for buses and motor coaches as well as everyone else, presents some challenges. Residents and businesses have increasingly mentioned to us, and we have also observed for ourselves, some unique issues with buses and motor coaches.

The problems that the City has encountered with bus and motor coach parking has triggered the need for the City to adopt stricter parking regulations. This letter is to inform you that beginning Wednesday, June 6th, 2001, the following new bus parking regulations will go into effect:

  1. Bus loading areas at the Port of Excelsior are designed and signed. Parking is limited to 20 minutes.
  2. Buses are no longer allowed to park in the City's municipal parking lots and/or on City streets, except where expressly allowed.
  3. The following locations, which are depicted on the attached map, are the only locations that are designated for bus and motor coach parking.
    • Beehrle Avenue. This is a wide, two-way street with little local traffic. There is a wide Y-intersection with County Road 19 which will facilitate turns from County Road 19.
    • Excelsior Elementary School. 443 Oak Street (east side of County Road 19, just north of Highway 7). Bus parking areas have been established in parts of the school's parking lot. The school site is available in the evenings after 6:00 pm., and at other times when school is not in session or special events are not scheduled.
  4. Bus engines must be turned off at all times while parked, and at all times while loading and unloading. Under no circumstances shall the motor be left on.
  5. VIOLATORS WILL BE TICKETED.
This is the only notice you will receive, so it is imperative that you share this notice with each of your drivers. Any excuse from a driver claiming that they did not have knowledge of the new parking regulations will not be an acceptable excuse. The driver will be ticketed.

If you have any questions regarding these regulations, feel free to contact me via phone (952)474-5233, FACSIMILE (952)474-6300, or by e-mail myles@ci.excelsior.mn.us .  We thank you for your cooperation.