- City:
- Seaside, OR
- Site Type:
- Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Bureau of Public Roads (BPR), Public Works Funding
- Started:
- 1939
- Completed:
- 1939
- Contractor:
- Mountain State Construction
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Completed in 1939, the biggest bridge on what was then the newly constructed Wolf Creek Highway (now the Sunset Highway) spans the 600-foot-deep Nehalem River gorge. It eliminated a three-mile detour on this major highway between Portland and the northern Oregon coast.
The concrete arch bridge cost $130,000 and was built in a cooperative effort between the US Bureau of Public Roads and the Oregon State Highway Commission. Mountain States Construction Company, a Eugene firm, built the bridge.
Source notes
"Costly Span Completed," Oregonian. February 4, 1940.
"Nehalem Bridge - Oregon," Bridgehunter: Http://www.bridgehunter.org
Site originally submitted by Judith T Kenny on February 16, 2022.
Site Details
Total Cost |
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$130,000 |
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