Utah's Bridges: I-70 Bridges over the Green River (1)

May 2006 (38.975 Degrees, -110.150 Degrees) 1-70 Bridges over the Green River

After a long day's ride from Moab I finally arrived back at Green River. I took several photos of the two 44 ft wide I-70 Bridges over the Green River that are just south of the railroad bridge where we began our journey.  The bridges have a 572 ft long, three span, continuous Corten steel superstructure on pier walls and seat-type abutments. In 2010 the average daily traffic was 2725 vehicles a day with 14% truck traffic. The bridges were built in 1984 and have a sufficiency rating of 97.9%.

Southeastern Utah is part of the 'Four Corners' area that also includes portions of Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico. It is mostly land belonging to the Ute, Hopi, Zuni, and Navajo nations and it's very rugged and beautiful. 

Utah's Bridges: I-70 Bridges over the Green River (1) by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.