Facts
- Overview
- Lost deck truss bridge over Niangua Arm, Lake of the Ozarks, on MO 5/7 northwest of Camdenton
- Location
- Camden County, Missouri
- Status
- Replaced by modern bridge
- History
- Built 1935; demolished in 2003
- Design
- Warren deck truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 410.0 ft.
Total length: 1,957.5 ft.
Deck width: 20.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.08411, -92.80416 (decimal degrees)
38°05'03" N, 92°48'15" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Land survey
- T. 39 N., R. 17 W., Sec. 28
- Inventory number
- BH 21072 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Comments
Such a sad bridge to see go. My grandparents built a house on the southeast side of this bridge in 1977. It was a wonderful, hexagon shaped house with a 3-well dock you could see from the bridge as you passed over.
We spent many, many weekends at the lake with my grandparents. The State of Missouri decided to build the new bridge on the east side of the old bridge, therefore the state had to buy the house from them to tear it down. I don't know if it has actually been torn down yet, as I heard they were going to rent it out or something instead.
As a child, we used to walk the length of the bridge underneath it on the maintenance walkway. Not the smartest thing to do, but we did it nonetheless. Just seeing pictures of the old bridge brings back so many fond memories.
If anyone has any great pictures of this bridge of pictures of that hexagon shaped house, please send them to me! Thank you.