Boulder_Creek_Bridge_(Boulder,_Colorado)

Boulder Creek Bridge (Boulder, Colorado)

Boulder Creek Bridge (Boulder, Colorado)

United States historic place

The Boulder Creek Bridge near Boulder, Colorado is a concrete slab and girder bridge which was built in 1953. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.[1]

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It brings Colorado State Highway 119 over Boulder Creek, and was under Federal rather than state management as the highway provides access from Boulder to the Roosevelt National Forest.[2]

It was designed by the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads.[3] It is 100 feet (30 m) in total length, and 39 feet (12 m) wide carrying a 34 feet (10 m)-wide roadbed. It consists of three spans, the main one being 48 feet (15 m) long. It has concrete abutments, wingwalls, and spill-through piers. Steel flex beams on the approach were a later addition.[2]

It was deemed technologically significant as one of the first concrete girder bridges in Colorado of a new type, having parabolically arched beams rather than flat ones, and supported by concrete spill through piers.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. [2]
    Colorado Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation; Clayton Fraser (May 21, 2002). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Boulder Creek Bridge / CDOT No. D-15-AK: 5BL79". National Park Service. Retrieved October 10, 2021. With accompanying two photos from 2000
  3. [3]
    "Boulder Creek Bridge". History Colorado. Retrieved October 9, 2021.

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