The Rulo Bridge is the name for the bridge that crosses Missouri River on U.S. Route 159 (US 159) from the village of Rulo in Richardson County, Nebraska, to Holt County, Missouri, west of Big Lake.

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Rulo Bridge
Formerly listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Old Rulo Bridge (left) from the Missouri side. A new bridge has since been built to replace the original structure..
Location	US 159, Rulo, Nebraska, and Holt County, Missouri
Coordinates	40°3′14.35″N 95°25′13.95″W
Built	1938
Architect	Harrington & Cortelyou
MPS	Highway Bridges in Nebraska MPS
NRHP reference No.	92000718[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	January 4, 1993
Removed from NRHP	November 16, 2015

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The old Rulo bridge was a truss bridge built in 1939 by the Works Progress Administration and Kansas City Bridge Company and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. It was featured in the movie Paper Moon.^[2] In March 2009, Nebraska Department of Roads approved a plan for a new bridge, which would be 650 feet (200 m) south of the current bridge. The current Rulo Bridge would then be dismantled.^[3][4]

The new Rulo bridge opened in 2013, and the historic bridge was imploded on January 19, 2014.^[5][6] It was removed from the National Register the next year.^[7] The replacement bridge was indefinitely closed to all traffic in April 2019 as a result of the 2019 Midwestern U.S. floods. It reopened in September 2019 for access to Missouri Route 111, and the remainder of U.S. Route 159 was reopened in late October for access to Interstate 29.^{[8][9][10][11]}

• List of crossings of the Missouri River
• List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Nebraska
• List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Richardson County, Nebraska
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Holt County, Missouri
• List of historic bridges in Nebraska