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Mystery Bridge
Description
According to a newspaper article (linked below), some locals believe the bridge was built during prohibition and used to roll barrels of booze across to be loaded on to wagons because it was built too high off the ground to drive on and no roads led to it.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Timber stringer bridge over North Platte River on CR 701
- Location
- Evansville, Natrona County, Wyoming
- Status
- Removed but not replaced
- History
- Damaged by ice 1971
- Design
- Timber stringer
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.86464, -106.21842 (decimal degrees)
42°51'53" N, 106°13'06" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 13/400469/4746503 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Brookhurst
- Inventory number
- BH 77091 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- May 14, 2017: Added by Dave King