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The site became a state park in 1970 - known officially as Kinzua Bridge State Park - and was added to the National Register of Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks in 1977.
The Kinzua Bridge or the Kinzua Viaduct (/ ˈ k ɪ n z uː /, [2] /-z uː ə /) was a railroad trestle that spanned Kinzua Creek in McKean County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The bridge was 301 feet (92 m) tall and 2,052 feet (625 m) long. Most of its structure collapsed during a tornado in July 2003.
Kinzua Bridge State Park is a 339-acre (137 ha) Pennsylvania state park near Mount Jewett, in Hamlin and Keating Townships, McKean County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The park lies between U.S. Route 6 and Pennsylvania Route 59 , along State Route 3011 just east of the Allegheny National Forest .
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The viaduct was built over the Kinzua Gorge to avoid having to construct an additional 8 miles of track over rough terrain. Construction began in 1881 and upon completion in 1882, it became the ...
The Kinzua Bridge, near Mount Jewett, Pennsylvania, photographed shortly after its construction in 1882. At the time it was built, the Kinzua Bridge was the highest, at 301 ft (92 m), and longest, at 2,053 ft (626 m), railway bridge in the world. Most of the bridge was destroyed on July 21, 2003, by a tornado. The bridge pieces have been left ...
The popular skywalk at Kinzua Bridge State Park will be closed at times starting Sept. 16 and later this year will close for about nine months.
In February 2003, workers from an Ohio-based construction and repair company began to restore and stabilize the Kinzua Bridge to eventually reopen it for the K&K. [28] [30] On July 21, after all of the workers left for the day, a major storm spawned a tornado which struck the bridge, resulting in eleven of its twenty support towers toppling over.