Facts
- Overview
- Lost two-span Howe through truss bridge over Colorado River
- Location
- Eagle County, Colorado
- Status
- No longer exists
- History
- Built 1890 by the Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co. under a $5,790 state contract
- Builder
- - Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Works
- Design
- Howe through truss
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on June 24, 1985
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.85792, -106.64897 (decimal degrees)
39°51'29" N, 106°38'56" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Inventory numbers
- NRHP 85001401 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 11849 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Comments
State Bridge
There is a modern bridge, which replaced the old state bridge. There was a Lodge there, which burned down earlier this year (2007), but the cabin that Teddy Roosevelt stayed in still survived. You can see some of the old timbers which formed the bridge on the North Bank, as well as the concrete support structures still in place in the river.