Diamondback Bridge

Photos

Diamondback Bridge entrance

Snake head northern entrance

Photo taken by Chris Patriarca in May 2006

BH Photo #194439

Overview: Girder bridge over East Broadway Boulevard on Pedestrian traffic
Location: Tucson, Pima County, Arizona
Status: Open to pedestrians
History: Opened to the public on May 23, 2002, this pedestrian bridge resembles a diamondback rattlesnake.
Builders: - Hunter Contracting Co. of Gilbert, Arizona
- T.Y. Lin International of San Francisco, California (Structural Engineers)
Design: The bridge features a 28-foot high snake head at the northern approach and a 20-foot high tail that is equipped with a 300-pound fiberglass rattle at the southern approach. Sensors along the bridge trigger the rattle to make noise. The circular tube-steel framing and expanded metal fencing along its entire length is painted with diamond shapes similar to those found on a diamondback rattlesnake.
Dimensions: Total length: 280.0 ft.
Deck width: 14.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 11.0 ft.
Also called: Diamondback Bicycle/Pedestrian Bridge
Snake Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude: +32.22123, -110.96130 (decimal degrees)
32°13'16" N, 110°57'41" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates: 12/503646/3564958 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:: Tucson
Inventory number: BH 48295 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Diamondback Bridge

Posted February 28, 2011, by Anthony Dillon (spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com)

No points on the historic scale......but definitely one of the more unique structures I've seen.