CR-510 Bridge

Visit MDOT's page for this historic bridge.

This bridge is one of my two favorites, and is the watermark background for this website, and the "View Photos" button. One stationed on the Allegheny River in Pennsylvania, this Pennsylvania Truss Bridge now enhances a Michigan road with it's highly intricate configuration. This bridge is in the perfect place. Approaching the bridge from the south, you are on a windy road, and you can not see the bridge until you are on top of it. A "Narrow Bridge" sign is an explorers only clue. Before you know it you round the last curve, and this bridge is suddenly "there" at the bottom of a small river valley. The first-time experience is quite an enjoyable one.

As is often the problem with Michigan truss bridges, there is no plaque on the bridge. I do not know if we have a plaque thief in this state or what... I do know that they are out there in other states. One of them even has a website. I think that it is only right to remove a plaque from a bridge if the bridge is about to be torn down, or is about to fall down (abandoned). Anyway, without a plaque, all I can do is use MDOT's one paragraph of info and just speculate on the rest. According to MDOT, the bridge was erected here in Michigan in 1921.

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