Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over Colorado River on Penitentiary Avenue
- Location
- Yuma County, Arizona
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1914; rehabilitated 1943
- Design
- Through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 336.0 ft.
Total length: 443.9 ft.
Deck width: 16.7 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 15.0 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on September 11, 1979
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +32.72856, -108.61528 (decimal degrees)
32°43'43" N, 108°36'55" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 12/723477/3623710 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Bullard Peak
- Inventory numbers
- NRHP 79000431 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 10778 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 03/2007)
- Deck condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Appraisal: Functionally obsolete
Sufficiency rating: 53.0 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2006)
- 6,930
Comments
Penitentiary Avenue Bridge
This is call coast to coast bridge in Yuma, Arizona. This is retired bridge. It was closed to traffic since 1988. People will walk on the bridge any time.
Penitentiary Avenue Bridge
This is call coast to coast bridge in Yuma, Arizona. This is retired bridge. It was closed to traffic since 1988. People will walk on the bridge any time.