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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)
Comments
Hidden Parkway
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.
Hidden Parkway
This is in the NBI through 2004 where it's first shown as closed.
Hidden Parkway
Those are how I mark duplicate builders so James knows to delete them. Forgot to delete them after adding the non-duplicate builders
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So recently found plot maps from 1932 that show the parkway was indeed split at this spot with this being the northbound side of the parkway. The current path of the two lane parkway was the south bound side only. Bridge is still intact and used now as part of the citys frisbee golf course.