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Dotsero Bridge

Eagle County, Colorado

Photos 

Overview

Photo taken by Thad Roan of Bridgepix.com

BH Photo #101494

Map 

Street Views 

Description 

Lost Parker through truss bridge over Colorado River on US 6 (I-70 service road). CDOT replaced this bridge starting in October 2012. As mentioned on their FASTER Bridge Enterprise program project list this took a year to accomplish and at a cost of roughly $11.5 million. The original bridge was closed to traffic in June 2013 and demolished. Formerly listed on the NRHP 02001155 starting on 2002-10-15 to its demise.

Facts 

Overview
Lost through truss bridge over Colorado River on the I-70 Service Road (Old US 6) at Dotsero
Location
Eagle County, Colorado
Status
Lost
History
Built 1934-35; replaced 2013
Design
Riveted, 8-panel Parker through truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 150.0 ft.
Total length: 275.8 ft.
Deck width: 29.8 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 15.3 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+39.65008, -107.06312   (decimal degrees)
39°39'00" N, 107°03'47" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
13/322990/4390954 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Dotsero
Average daily traffic (as of 2011)
15,000
Inventory numbers
CDOT F-08-F (Colorado Dept. of Transportation structure number)
NRHP 02001155 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 11839 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection report (as of June 2012)
Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 27.5 (out of 100)
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Categories 

8-panel truss (358)
Built 1935 (1,727)
Built during 1930s (10,988)
Colorado (639)
Colorado River (42)
Eagle County, Colorado (51)
Formerly NR-listed (127)
Have street view (24,813)
Lost (21,041)
Lost 2013 (277)
Lost during 2010s (2,474)
 Owned by state (14,739)
Parker through truss (1,206)
Parker truss (1,568)
Replaced by new bridge (13,803)
Riveted (2,008)
Span length 125-175 feet (3,948)
Structurally deficient (17,269)
Through truss (13,745)
Total length 250-500 feet (4,827)
Truss (30,752)
US 6 (120)

Update Log 

  • January 6, 2014: Updated by Roger Deschner: Bridge has been replaced
  • October 12, 2011: Updated by K. A. Erickson: Bridge is doomed
  • April 19, 2010: New Street View added by Nathan Holth
  • June 23, 2005: Posted photos from Thad Roan

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Dotsero Bridge
Posted June 25, 2013, by Roger Deschner (rogerdeschner [at] gmail [dot] com)

Traffic has just been shifted to the new bridge, even though construction work continues, Demolition of the historic truss bridge should commence soon.