Sandy Creek Bridge | |
![]() Sandy Creek Covered Bridge Park at Remote | |
Location of the bridge in Coos County, Oregon | |
Nearest city | Myrtle Point |
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Coordinates | 43°00′23″N123°53′30″W / 43.006371°N 123.891774°W |
Built | 1921 |
Architectural style | Howe truss |
MPS | Oregon Covered Bridges TR [1] |
NRHP reference No. | 79002051 |
Listed | November 29, 1979 |
Sandy Creek Bridge is a covered bridge spanning Sandy Creek near the community of Remote in southwestern Oregon in the United States. [2] The bridge crosses the creek near its mouth on the Middle Fork Coquille River in Coos County. [3]
Built in 1921, the bridge carried Oregon Route 42 over the creek until bypassed by a newer bridge in 1949. [4] In 1984, after restoration by volunteers from the Lions Club of Myrtle Point, the structure became a display in a county park at the same site. [2] It is the only remaining covered bridge in Coos County. [4]
Special features of the bridge include large side openings and a truss made of two crossed Howe truss members on each chord. [4] The bridge is 60 feet (18 m) long. [4] It was added the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. [1]
The Historic Columbia River Highway is an approximately 75-mile-long (121 km) scenic highway in the U.S. state of Oregon between Troutdale and The Dalles, built through the Columbia River Gorge between 1913 and 1922. As the first planned scenic roadway in the United States, it has been recognized in numerous ways, including being listed on the National Register of Historic Places, being designated as a National Historic Landmark by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, being designated as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers, and being considered a "destination unto itself" as an All-American Road by the U.S. Secretary of Transportation. The historic roadway was bypassed by the present Columbia River Highway No. 2 from the 1930s to the 1950s, leaving behind the old two-lane road. The road is now mostly owned and maintained by the state through the Oregon Department of Transportation as the Historic Columbia River Highway No. 100 or the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department as the Historic Columbia River Highway State Trail.
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