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  Built in 1986 to celebrate the 175th anniversary of Ashtabula County, Ohio, the Caine Road Covered Bridge is located in Pierpont Township near Jefferson, Ohio. Spanning 124 feet across the West Branch of the Ashtabula River, the covered bridge was built by John Smolen, who built a number of covered bridges in Ashtabula County. The bridge was the first Pratt truss covered bridge built in Ohio and uses vertical components and diagonals that slope down toward the center. Construction of the bridge took place on dry land, but a new channel of the river was cut so the river could be rerouted underneath the bridge once construction was completed. My own visit to the Caine Road Covered Bridge came at the end of a long day of exploring, especially factoring in the number of bridges one could visit around Ashtabula County. It was a feather in the cap of a fun day, and if you could say visiting a covered bridge is relaxing, I thought it was a relaxing way to end my travels. How to Get Ther...

  Opened to the public on June 15, 1917, the iconic Fremont Bridge in Seattle, Washington was built as part of the construction of the Fremont Cut of the Lake Washington Ship Canal project. Named for the nearby Fremont neighborhood on the north side of the bridge, the Fremont Bridge is a 317-foot-long double-leaf pony truss bascule bridge that connects downtown Seattle and the Queen Anne neighborhood with Fremont and other neighborhoods north of the Lake Washington Ship Canal. The Fremont Bridge replaced temporary bridges that were built over the Ship Canal at Stone Avenue (now Stone Way) and in Fremont before the modern-day bridge was constructed. With a clearance of only 30 feet, the Fremont Bridge opens an average of 35 times a day, which earns it the claim as the busiest drawbridge on the planet.  The Fremont Bridge was designed by engineers Arthur H. Dimock and Frank A. Rapp, who arrived in Seattle in 1912 after designing railroad bridges for the railroad. This happened d...

Standing tall across from downtown Baton Rouge, the Horace Wilkinson Bridge carries Interstate 10 across the lower Mississippi River between West Baton Rouge and East Baton Rouge Parishes. Unusually, the bridge is actually named for three separate people; three generations of Horace Wilkinsons who served in the Louisiana State Legislature over a combined period of 54 years. Constructed in the 1960s and opened to traffic in 1968, this is one of the largest steel bridges on the lower Mississippi. It’s also the tallest bridge across the Mississippi, with its roadway reaching 175 ft at the center span. Baton Rouge is the northernmost city on the river where deep-water, ocean-going vessels can operate. As a result, this bridge is the northernmost bridge on the river of truly gigantic proportions. Altogether, the bridge is nearly 2 ½ miles long and its massive truss superstructure is 4,550 ft long with a center main truss span of 1,235 ft. The Horace Wilkinson Bridge is one of the largest ...