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Southeast View

Note after-market steel girders. Ouachita River flowing BIG!

Photo taken by Fredrick Garcia in March 2008

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Southeast View

Pipelines are slung on both sides of the bridge.

Photo taken by Fredrick Garcia in March 2008

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Northeast View

Northern approach is considerably longer than the the bridge itself. Bridge structure not visible from roadway.

Photo taken by Fredrick Garcia in March 2008

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Map

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Facts

Overview: Three-span arch bridge over Ouachita River on US 67
Location: Hot Spring County, Arkansas
Status: Open to traffic
History: Built 1929; rehabilitated 1957
Design: Arch
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 125.0 ft.
Total length: 1,176.5 ft.
Deck width: 27.8 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude: +34.23833, -92.95833 (decimal degrees)
34°14'18" N, 92°57'30" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Inventory numbers: AHTD 00663 (Arkansas Highway and Transportation Dept. bridge number)
BH 10368 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 02/2007): Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 62.8 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2005): 2,300

Update Log

March 7, 2008: New photos from Fredrick Garcia

Sources

Fredrick Garcia - fandsgarcia [at] gmail [dot] com

Comments

Ouachita River US 67 Bridge

Posted March 7, 2008, by Wayne Kizziar (wayne1701 [at] cableone [dot] net)

Well done Fred ! I cannot tell you how many hundreds of times I have crossed this bridge and thought it was just a boring stringer. Driving down to the boat ramp to check never crossed my mind. You would never know from the deck it was an open spandrel arch. Think maybe the ugly deck cladding was added during the 1957 rehab ? I will have to stop and see it in person next time I am up that way. Again well done !

Ouachita River US 67 Bridge

Posted March 7, 2008, by Fred Garcia (fandsgarcia [at] gmail [dot] com)

Visited this bridge by chance on 5Mar'08. There is an AG&F river access boat ramp. The open spandrel 3-arch concrete bridge has a lengthy north approach and the bridge structure is not visible from the road surface. It appears that substantial steel girders have been cheeked to the outer edges (not original), but not done recently. River was flowing strong. Community of Midway begins on the south bank.