Facts
- Overview
- Deck truss bridge over Grand Lake on US 59 in Copeland
- Location
- Delaware County, Oklahoma
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1938
- Design
- Deck truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 120.0 ft.
Total length: 2,548.0 ft.
Deck width: 23.9 ft.
- Recognition
- Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +36.66833, -94.84833 (decimal degrees)
36°40'06" N, 94°50'54" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Inventory number
- BH 28922 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection (as of 12/2006)
- Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 88.9 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2005)
- 5,200
Comments
Grand Lake Bridge
This bridge (a 1937 deck truss, known as Sailboat Bridge in the area) is long gone. The bridge was functionally obsolete by about 1990, and starting about 1997 Oklahoma DOT began replacing the bridge with two new bridges, both segmental concrete. The old bridge was demolished to make room for one of the new ones.
I don't know about anyone else, but the new bridges lack the aesthetics of the old ones...
The first picture is the original Sailboat Bridge (credit Oklahoma DOT). The second is a panoramic view of the new Sailboat Bridge(s).
