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The High Steel Bridge is a truss arch bridge that spans the south fork of the Skokomish River, on National Forest Service road #2340 in Mason County, Washington, near the city of Shelton. [1] The bridge is 685 feet (209 m) long, and its deck is 375 feet (114 m) above the river.
The Vance Creek Bridge is an arch bridge in the Satsop Hills of Mason County, Washington that was built for a logging railroad owned by the Simpson Logging Company in 1929. At 347 feet (106 m) in height, it is the second-highest railroad arch in the United States after the nearby High Steel Bridge. [2]
Royal Gorge Bridge, highest bridge in the United States. This is a list of the highest bridges in the United States by height over land or water. Height in this list refers to the distance from the bridge deck to the lowest point on the land, or the water surface, directly below.
At the time it was built, it was the longest concrete arch bridge in the United States, [5] [6] surpassed only by the 866-foot (264 m) Sandö Bridge in Sweden. It was also the highest automobile bridge in Washington. It won the 1971 Grand Award "for excellence in the use of concrete", awarded by the Washington Aggregates and Concrete ...
Floating bridges carry Interstate 90 and State Route 520 across Lake Washington to the Eastside suburbs. [6] The SR 520 Albert D. Rosellini Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, which opened in 2016 as the replacement for another floating bridge at the same site, [7] [8] is the longest floating bridge in the world.
The Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, also known as the 520 Bridge and officially the Governor Albert D. Rosellini Bridge, is a floating bridge that carries Washington State Route 520 across Lake Washington from Seattle to its eastern suburbs.
The state of Washington purchased the bridge in 1947 and the tolls were removed in 1965 after the bridge was paid for. In 1980, the bridge was rededicated as the Lewis and Clark Bridge in honor of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The deck was replaced in 2003–04 at a cost of $29.2 million. The bridge is 2,722 ft (830 m) [1] long with 210 ft ...
South Park Bridge (Seattle) (14th/16th Avenue South Bridge) 1931 1982-07-16 Seattle: King: Rolling lift (Scherzer) bascule, dismantled 2010–2013 and replaced by a new bridge carrying the same name Agate Pass Bridge: 1950 1995-05-24 Suquamish