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Hidden Parkway
Facts
- Overview
- Abandoned bridge over Whitehead Creek on Old Southwest Parkway
- Location
- St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri
- Status
- Derelict/abandoned hasn't been maintained since parkway was rerouted.
- History
- Haven't found much on this one as of late. This was the previous route Southwest parkway took before U.S. 36 was built and the parkway realigned.
- Builders
- - W.A. Abrams
- W.G. Fowler
- Design
- Open-spandrel concrete arch
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 13.1 ft.
Total length: 64.0 ft.
Deck width: 20.0 ft.
- Also called
- Old Southwest parkway bridge over Whitehead Creek
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.74912, -94.81641 (decimal degrees)
39°44'57" N, 94°48'59" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/344381/4401489 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Saint Joseph South
- Land survey
- T. 57 N., R. 35 W., Sec. 15
- Inventory number
- BH 76389 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
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This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/mo/buchanan/bh76389/
This bridge hasn't been used for many decades. My father born in 1959 said that the parkway has been the route it currently is as far back as he can remember. Old maps show route 8 which is now U.S. 36 crossing the parkway then. No details show whether it intersected or crossed over the parkway.