Pikes Peak Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Lost through truss bridge over Gasconade River on MO 17 north of Waynesville
- Location
- Pulaski County, Missouri
- Status
- Replaced by new bridge
- History
- Built 1932; demolished Oct. 2009
- Builder
- - Maxwell Construction Co. of Columbus, Kansas (Contractor)
- Design
- From west to east:
Two riveted, polygonal Warren pony trusses
One riveted, 10-panel Parker through truss
Two steel stringer spans - Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 200.4 ft.
Total length: 481.8 ft.
Deck width: 23.9 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 13.8 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +37.85131, -92.21442 (decimal degrees)
37°51'05" N, 92°12'52" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/569111/4189609 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Waynesville
- Land survey
- T. 36 N., R. 12 W., Sec. 14
- Inventory numbers
- MONBI 5532 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 22371 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 10/2008)
- Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 4.0 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2008)
- 4,588
Update Log
- July 27, 2015: New photo from Robert Thompson
- July 20, 2012: Merged duplicate listings
- December 3, 2011: New photo from David Backlin
- October 20, 2009: Bridge is being demolished this week
- January 25, 2005: Posted new photos
Sources
- Missouri Historic Bridge Inventory
- James Baughn - webmaster [at] bridgehunter [dot] com
- David Backlin - us71 [at] cox [dot] net
- Clark Vance - cvance [at] dogmail [dot] com
- MoDOT Historic Bridge Report - July 2008
- Robert Thompson
Comments
The geological formation is referred to as Pikes Peak.
When you say Pikes Peak, are you talking about Pikes Peak Ocean to Ocean Highway?
The bridge is called the "Crocker Bridge"??? With it now a mundane concrete thing it's new name should be "Crock of Sh**"
Mr. Vance:
Pardon me for a stupid question, but did you drive over this bridge recently? I would have sworn MODOT replaced this bridge, but I haven't gone that way in years. I noticed the google picture said 2012 so I am confused.
New bridge is complete. One lane closed down for final demo of old bridge.
Picture of a picture. Original photo is on display at the Frisco Depot Museum in Crocker, Missouri.
Oops. I should have said that the picture is taken looking South, not South Portal.
Another recent pic of the construction. South Portal.
Taken July 29, 2009.
Taken July 29, 2009
This bridge will be lost soon. New bridge construction of the two "flood" spans are in full swing now. The project is slated to be fully completed Fall 2009.
MoDot has this bridge in the planning stages to be replaced in the next few years. They are discussing the option of closing the road to traffic during construction to save costs. New bridge is needed but the locals aren't happy about this plan. Detour would be several miles.
Locals call it Crocker bridge.
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