Rating:
51886
{82}%
2 votes
Old River Bridge
Description
The Belton Bridge was the western entrance to Glacier National Park from 1920 to 1938, and was one of the park's first major construction projects. Between 1933 and 1938, the bridge was also a vital link on Going-to-the-Sun Road, a 51-mile stretch of scenic road across the park. The road is significant as a unique engineering accomplishment of the early twentieth century, and as the first product of a 1925 cooperative agreement between the National Park Service and the Bureau of Public Roads. The Belton Bridge is one of approximately seventeen prominent masonry and concrete structures along Going-to-the-Sun Road.
-- Historic American Engineering Record
Facts
- Overview
- Open-spandrel arch bridge over Middle Fork Flathead River on Old River Bridge Road
- Location
- Glacier National Park, Flathead County, Montana
- Status
- Open to traffic
- Builders
- - Charles A. McClung of Spokane, Washington (Contractor)
- George E. Goodwin (Engineer)
- Design
- Open-spandrel concrete arch
- Dimensions
-
Length of largest span: 150.0 ft.
Total length: 209.0 ft.
Deck width: 16.0 ft.
- Also called
- Belton Bridge (Original Name)
Belton Bridge (Original Name)
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +48.49971, -113.96989 (decimal degrees)
48°29'59" N, 113°58'12" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 12/280619/5376103 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- West Glacier
- Elevation
- 3201 ft. above sea level
- Inventory number
- BH 51886 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- March 31, 2018: New photos from David Jones
- October 23, 2014: HAER photo posted by Ian Martin
- October 23, 2014: New Street View added by Luke
- March 26, 2012: Added by Craig Philpott
Sources
- Craig Philpott - craigphilpott63 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Panorama
- Luke
- HAER MT-68 - Belton Bridge, Spanning middle fork of Flathead River at Going-to-the-Sun Road, West Glacier, Flathead County, MT
- David Jones - david2jpix [at] yahoo [dot] com