Rating:
10738
{62}%
1 vote
Alchesay Canyon Bridge
Photos
Side view
(Shadow self-portrait of me in foreground.)
Photo taken by Roger Deschner in March 2015
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA)
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BH Photo #321136
Description
This 1905 closed-spandrel concrete arch was built on a very tight hairpin curve. In 1990, the hairpin curve was straightened somewhat by bypassing the historic bridge with a new concrete culvert. It remains intact and in place, open to pedestrians.
Facts
- Overview
- Concrete arch bridge over Alchesay Canyon on AZ 88
- Location
- Maricopa County, Arizona
- Status
- Open to pedestrians only
- History
- Built 1905; traffic rerouted to new bridge 1990
- Design
- Closed-spandrel arch
- Dimensions
-
Length of largest span: 17.7 ft.
Total length: 22.0 ft.
Deck width: 18.4 ft.
- Recognition
-
Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on September 30, 1988
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +33.66800, -111.15911 (decimal degrees)
33°40'05" N, 111°09'33" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 12/485249/3725356 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Theodore Roosevelt Dam
- Average daily traffic (as of 2008)
- 432
- Inventory numbers
- NRHP 88001615 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
AZ 1532 (Arizona bridge number)
BH 10738 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of February 2010)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 31.9 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- April 5, 2015: Updated by Roger Deschner: Added photos; bridge is open to pedestrians
- April 18, 2010: New Street View added by Kim Harvey
Sources
- Kim Harvey
- Roger Deschner - rogerdeschner [at] gmail [dot] com