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General Information

Completion: 1924
Status: out of service

Project Type

Awards and Distinctions

Location

Location: , , ,
Coordinates: 35° 52' 28.99" N    106° 8' 30.61" W
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Technical Information

Dimensions

main span 53 m

Materials

cables steel
pylons reinforced concrete
deck truss steel
wood

Chronology

1948

Closed to road traffic.

Excerpt from Wikipedia

The Otowi Suspension Bridge, spanning the Rio Grande River near San Ildefonso, New Mexico, is a wooden suspension bridge built in 1924. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. The bridge has been closed to vehicular traffic since the late 1940s, when a two-lane steel bridge was constructed just north of it.

In its 1996 NRHP nomination, it is asserted to be significant in the areas of transportation and engineering. It was important for having opened a large part of New Mexico to automobile traffic, including the site of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which became nationally important during World War II. It was also the only public highway suspension bridge in the state and was the best-rated bridge in the state in a 1987 survey.

It was a contributing property in the listing of the Otowi Historic District to the National Register in 1975.

Text imported from Wikipedia article "Otowi Suspension Bridge" and modified on 25 November 2021 according to the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.

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  • About this
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  • Structure-ID
    20000958
  • Published on:
    17/09/2000
  • Last updated on:
    24/11/2021
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