Bigelow Bridge

According to the Google Maps, this bridge is still open to traffic.

As it shows the road to still exist.

checked out the bridge today and talked to a near by land owner (nice guy) aparently the bridge was brought down from michigan on a barge. there was aparently a mill there as well. you can see the foundations on the guys property. he said it was the old fourche river mill co. (finding info on that now)

Here's a distance shot of this bridge, only two weeks after Fred's pics.

Visited this bridge on 4 Feb '07. Had a hard time locating it and never really got close to it. I turned right at the water plant utility building and then the next left into a semi-dump site. The road to the left of the utility building was rutted real bad and sloppy so I could make it in my car. The photos I took were from about 100 yds. away.

Webmaster's note: The photos that were here have been incorporated into the main site.

This bridge is difficult to see, especially in summer. Both old road grades are overgrown with brush starting a good distance from the bridge itself. The easiest way to see it is to drive to it from the Bigelow side and turn right where the approach road ends by a utility building, and then take a left at the next turn. It takes you to a bluff/junkyard overlooking the river just north of the bridge. If the water is low, you can get to the bridge along the river bank, but there is a small creek near the bridge you will have you jump. The west end of the bridge is the damaged section.

a coworker of mine named Robert is a lifelong resident of Bigelow and he offered this bit of information:

in the mid 1970's, possibly 1976 - the bigelow bridge in a freak occurence ( a vehicle crossing it somehow ignited the flame ) caught fire and burned. it was then abandoned.

I'm not to far from Bigelow. I'd like to see it for myself. Email me with some more imfo!!

I was curious how long ago this bridge suffered its terminal damage....