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Green River I-80 Twin Tunnels
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Green River I-80 Eastbound Tunnel Portal
this is the East Bound or West End of the Tunnel Portal on I-80 in Green River Wyoming.
Photo taken by Jolly Goodfellow in December 2012
BH Photo #245809
Description
Twin Tunnels 1138 feet long [347 m] on Interstate 80 at mile marker 89 in Green River Wyoming. The clearance of the westbound tunnel is 16.92 feet [5.15 m] and the eastbound tunnel is 16.75 feet [5.11 m].Facts
- Overview
- Pair of tunnels on I-80, mile 89 at Green River
- Location
- Green River, Sweetwater County, Wyoming
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1966
- Design
- Interstate Highway Twin Tunnels, I-80
- Dimensions
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Total length: 1,138.2 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 16.8 ft.
- Also called
- Green River, I-80, Twin Tunnles
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.53383, -109.46464 (decimal degrees)
41°32'02" N, 109°27'53" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 12/628080/4599157 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Green River
- Inventory numbers
- WY API (Wyoming bridge identifier)
BH 35824 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- August 29, 2013: Updated by Fmiser: Corrected description spelling, added metric units, added mile marker
- December 29, 2012: New photos from Jolly Goodfellow
- May 28, 2010: New Street View added by James Baughn
Sources
- Jolly Goodfellow
- Fmiser - fmiser [at] gmail [dot] com
- I-80 Tunnel - Webcam by WYDOT of the East of Tunnel - View Facing West
© Copyright 2002-18, James Baughn and contributors.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/wy/sweetwater/API/
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/wy/sweetwater/API/
Yeah, that would be a tall tunnel. It was a concatenation of 16'11" and 16'9", the vertical clearance of the two bores.
It's corrected now - and I found a webcam of the east portal. I added a link in "Sources".