Glen Canyon Dam Bridge

The Glen Canyon Bridge is the second highest steel arch bridge in the United States. It crosses as part of U.S. Highways 89 flowing through the Glen Canyon Colorado River at Page, Arizona. The pavement structure is supported by the underlying bridge arc whose abutments are anchored in the walls of Glen Canyon.

Specifications

  • The construction took almost two years, from February 1957 to January 1959.
  • The bridge leads to a height of 213 m above the bed of the Colorado River.
  • The span of the arch of the bridge is 313.3 m with an arc height of 50.3 m.
  • Length of roadway: 387.4 m
  • The roadway is 9 m wide including the sidewalks.

History

The construction of the Glen Canyon Bridge was started simultaneously with the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam, as vehicles of the dam construction site up to this point had to take a detour of about 200 km to go from one side of the gorge to the other to reach. The bridge was first built in California and then broken down into many parts. The items for the two halves of the bridge were transported in various ways to the opposite sides of the Glen Canyon and assembled there in the immediate vicinity of the dam construction site again.

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  • Road bridge in the United States
  • Arch bridge
  • Steel Bridge
  • Bridge in Arizona
  • Colorado River
  • Built in the 1950s
  • Coconino County
U.S. Route 89 Page (Arizona)
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