Posted in Arkansas
June 20, 2015
You’ll Want To Cross These 25 Amazing Bridges In Arkansas (Part II)
Having covered a lot of ground (pun intended) in the post earlier this week about historic bridges across the Natural State, enjoy this second half of the list! Hopefully the nostalgia and memories brought back from these old structures around Arkansas facilitates a desire to study more of the state’s history!
The bridge is a single-span steel Parker through truss, which formerly carried Arkansas Highway 282 across Frog Bayou, a tributary of the Arkansas River. The bridge is now closed to traffic, and is located at the southern end of Silver Bridge Road.
This is a twin-span bridge with a total length of 587 feet, which carries Arkansas Highway 59 across Lee Creek.
Now closed to traffic, it is a three-span truss bridge located west of Rena Road on the city's west side.
When adding the length of the approaches to the double cantilevered main span over the White River, this bridge is more than three miles long.
The Cannon Creek bridge is a three-span concrete tee beam bridge with a 24
degree curve.
The Cove Creek bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
The bridge design was completed, following standard Highway Department bridge drawings, in only one day.
This bridge carries Arkansas Highway 170 over the Little Red River and in 2014 was in the process of being bypassed. The bridge has a single span about 43 feet in length, with an overall bridge length of 48 feet.
Built in 1949 by the Pioneer Construction Company, the structure is the only suspension bridge open to traffic in Arkansas.
The bridge is located in Ozark National Forest, about 6 miles east of Siloam Springs, at the end of Chambers Springs Road (which it formerly carried) south of United States Route 412.
Upon completion, the bridge allowed access to a part of the Ozarks previously undiscovered by motorists.
The Lakeshore Drive Bridge is another of eight known masonry arch bridges in Arkansas.
The structure was built by The Ozark Engineering Company of Joplin, Missouri in 1928 and, though it has lost a balustrade on the west side and has had a second bridge built adjacent to it, the Lincoln Avenue Viaduct is remarkably well preserved.
Certain design details in the bridge, such as the vertical columns incorporated into its spandrel walls, make it unique in the state.
The bridge spans Lake No. 1, located at Avondale Road in Pulaski County, Arkansas.
So many of these bridges across Arkansas have moved on as interstate travel and technology progresses, but coming across one of these structures from the past is quite a cool moment that transports visitors away from a world full of high-tech engineering and into the old world for a happy while. What do you think of our list? Tell us in the comments below!
