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Old 06-30-22, 07:38 PM
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okay, I'll admit to being a bit surprised that this thread is still going!
Now I feel a bit obliged to either keep it alive, or maybe contribute to its death.
Not exactly sure which this is, but these are pics of the McPhaul Bridge on the Gila river, near Yuma, AZ.

I was stationed in Yuma around 1980 and biking in the area when I found the bridge. Even then, it was closed to traffic, but the modest pile of rock in front of it didn't stop me from wandering out onto the span. If you look closely, you can see my Raleigh Gran Sport parked on the left....




a side view of the bridge. A nice basic suspension bridge, but it didn't actually go anywhere other than across the river. Once over there, the road didn't continue.



the view from the bridge. Not bad for a desert.



The bridge seems to have become known as the Bridge to Nowhere.
https://azdot.gov/adot-blog/yumas-bridge-nowhere

While the bridge isn't that impressive in general, just the oddness of a suspension bridge in the desert kind of makes it novel and intriguing.

Steve in Peoria (no suspension bridges here)
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