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Chelan River Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Open-spandrel arch bridge over Chelan River on Abandoned Chelan Highway
- Location
- Chelan County, Washington
- Status
- Closed to all traffic
- History
- Built 1922
- Design
- Open-spandrel arch
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 76.0 ft.
Total length: 110.0 ft.
- Also called
- Chelan Canyon Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +47.81208, -119.98595 (decimal degrees)
47°48'43" N, 119°59'09" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 11/276463/5299732 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Chelan Falls
- Inventory number
- BH 36819 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- February 2, 2022: New photos from Patrick Gurwell
- May 2, 2021: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
- March 21, 2018: New Street View added by Leslie R trick
- September 23, 2016: New Street View added by Dana and Kay Klein
- July 7, 2008: Added by Michael Goff
Sources
- Mike Goff - michael [dot] goff [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Dana and Kay Klein
- Leslie R Trick - Leslie [dot] Trick [at] gmail [dot] com
- Geoff Hubbs
- Patrick Gurwell - pgurwell [at] gmail [dot] com
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Locals have told me that because of the tight right turn there were many accidents of hitting the bridge. A field trip to the bridge verifies that this is so. This prompted road engineers to abandon this section. Because of teen age parties the bridge is closed to foot traffic.