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The bridge opened to traffic on July 29, 1966, marking the completion of U.S. Route 101 and becoming the seventh major bridge built by Oregon in the 1950s–1960s; ferry service ended the night before. [11] On August 27, 1966, Governors Mark Hatfield of Oregon and Dan Evans of Washington dedicated the bridge by cutting a ceremonial ribbon.
George Washington Bridge: Hudson River: 1931: New York / New Jersey: Valley View Bridge: Cuyahoga Valley: 1977: Ohio: Walkway over the Hudson: Hudson River: 1889: New York: 210 ft (64.0 m) Lewis and Clark Bridge: Columbia River: 1930: Oregon / Washington: 206 ft (62.8 m) Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge: Narragansett Bay: 1969: Rhode Island: 205 ...
Other lists of U.S. bridges. By height; By state; By city Boston; New York City; Pittsburgh; Portland, Maine; Portland, Oregon; Seattle; Cable-stayed bridges; Covered bridges; List of toll bridges § United States; Category:Lists of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record; Category:Lists of bridges on the National ...
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 ]
The Lewis and Clark Bridge is a cantilever bridge that spans the Columbia River between Longview, Washington, and Rainier, Oregon. At the time of its completion, it had the longest cantilever span in the United States. [1] The bridge was opened on March 29, 1930, as a privately owned bridge named the Longview Bridge. The $5.8 million cost ...
This list of tallest bridges includes bridges with a structural height of at least 200 metres (660 ft). The structural height of a bridge is the maximum vertical distance from the uppermost part of a bridge, such as the top of a bridge tower, to the lowermost exposed part of the bridge, where its piers, towers, or mast pylons emerge from the surface of the ground or water.
[2] [3] The bridge was part of a 2.8-mile (4.5 km) long, $1.7 million (equivalent to $14 million in 2025) [2] segment of the Interstate 82 freeway construction through the area. [4] 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 ...
Thomas Creek Bridge crosses Thomas Creek in Curry County, in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is on U.S. Route 101 and lies within the boundaries of Samuel H. Boardman State Scenic Corridor. It is a Warren deck truss designed by Ivan D. Merchant. Built in 1961, it has a length of 956 feet (291 m) in total, [1] [2] and a deck width of 30 feet (9.1 m ...