Rating:
53689
{90}%
3 votes
Palouse to Cascades State Park Trail - Hull Creek Bridge
Description
A trail at Olallie State Park South Fork Picnic Area leads to the foundations.
Facts
- Overview
- Deck plate girder bridge over Hull Creek on Trail
- Location
- King County, Washington
- Status
- Open to pedestrians only
- History
- Originally built 1910; Middle span built in 1998 after a 1988 storm caused a mudslide that destoyed the original middle spans.
- Builder
- - Boss Construction, Inc. (Modern Center Span Contractor)
- Railroad
- - Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad (MILW)
- Design
- Deck plate girder
- Also called
- MILW - Hull Creek Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +47.43297, -121.65803 (decimal degrees)
47°25'59" N, 121°39'29" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 10/601196/5254153 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Chester Morse Lake
- Inventory number
- BH 53689 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- August 4, 2022: New photo from Glenn Celerier
- August 2, 2022: New photo from Glenn Celerier
- July 12, 2019: Updated by Luke: Refined history per forum comment
- November 4, 2012: Photo imported by Luke Harden
- September 28, 2012: Added by Luke Harden
Sources
- Luke
- RailPictures.net
- Glenn Celerier - celerier [dot] bridgehunter [at] gmail [dot] com
Despite what forest service and topography maps show, the correct name of this bridge is Hull Creek. The original bridge was built by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway of Washington in 1908 of wooden timber construction, it was converted to a steel viaduct in 1910. The railroad has always called the creek "Hull" creek and I believe it is marked as such by a sign on the present trail.