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Yellowstone Natural Bridge Yellowstone Natural Bridge area. Yellowstone Natural Bridge is a natural arch in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. The arch is at an elevation of 7,983 feet (2,433 m) and can be reached by hiking a little more than a mile from the Bridge Bay marina parking lot. [1] [2] The arch is 51 feet (16 m) tall and was created ...
This is a list of bridges and tunnels on the National Register of Historic Places in the U.S. state of Wyoming. [1] Of the 41 bridges listed only 15 still exist. Name
WY-32: Otter Creek Bridge No. 1 Extant Reinforced concrete girder: 1935 1989 Grand Loop Road: Otter Creek Lake Teton: WY-33: Tower Creek Bridge Extant Reinforced concrete closed-spandrel arch: 1933 1989 Grand Loop Road: Tower Creek Lake Teton
The Grand Loop Road is a historic district which encompasses the primary road system in Yellowstone National Park.Much of the 140-mile (230 km) system was originally planned by Captain Hiram M. Chittenden of the US Army Corps of Engineers in the early days of the park, when it was under military administration.
The original Four Mile Bridge, which carried Highway 173 over the Big Horn River, was completed in 1928 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places as part of a forty-bridge collection that illustrate steel truss construction. [2] It was offered for sale by the Wyoming Highway Department in 1987 ahead of a planned replacement. [4]
HAER No. WY-7, "Gardner River Bridge, Spanning Gardner River at North Entrance Road, Lake, Teton County, WY", 12 photos, 3 measured drawings, 9 data pages, 1 photo caption page; National Park Service Video - Old Gardiner Road; North Entrance Road Historic District at the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office
Painting of Yellowstone by Heinrich C. Berann. Aerial view of the entire park from the north, looking south. Mouse over the picture and click on an area of interest.
The first bridge on this site was built in 1903. Chittenden describes the process in his 1915 history of Yellowstone: The Arch Bridge over the Yellowstone. Until 1903 there was no bridge across the Yellowstone in the vicinity of the Falls and the right bank of the Grand Canyon was practically inaccessible to the public.