Avalon Road Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Culvert bridge over Private Channel on Avalon Road
- Location
- Bay County, Michigan
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1955
- Design
- Culvert
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 24.0 ft.
Total length: 25.9 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +43.90399, -83.91219 (decimal degrees)
43°54'14" N, 83°54'44" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/266137/4865332 (zone/easting/northing)
- Average daily traffic (as of 2000)
- 122
- Inventory numbers
- MINEW 00744 (Michigan bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory 2011 and later)
BH 82734 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of April 2017)
- Overall condition: Fair
Sufficiency rating: 38.9 (out of 100)
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Comments
24 feet, still culvert? Just curious
As you can tell from the picture at the top, Avalon Road is home to a shoreline neighborhood (one of several in Bay County), and in fact, it's right in the northeast corner of the county.
So despite the minimum load posting, I doubt very much that this area sees giant vehicle traffic.
The top picture doesn't show it very well, but this is a fairly steep crossing for a bridge/culvert. Trying to get good pictures didn't go so well, between the multiple "no parking" signs posted and a resident's dog out and about in the one area where I could have feasibly parked (might as well have been a guard dog). So both pictures that I've posted here were taken while I was sitting in the car.
Even though this crossing really does consist of a large culvert (thus its steep-ness), this one at least has a rather interesting design around it. There's actually a second one at the north end of the road, that is also steep but is far less aesthetically interesting.
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Huh! In looking at the forum, I guess I found another bridge in the vein of Honouli Wai or Bath House Road, didn't I? *shrugs*
Driving around the curve from Rashotte Road onto Avalon, it made me think there was definitely a culvert in the channel - but, in looking at pictures of those other two bridges, the arch of this one looks a LOT like it does for them underneath.
Whereas Honouli Wai has 3 arches and Bath House Road has 2, this only has the one. And the arches on those don't look nearly as raised as this one is.