San Juan River Bridge at Shiprock

US 666 over San Juan R., Shiprock, New Mexico. County/parish: San Juan.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places July 15, 1997. NRIS 97000740.

1 contributing structure.

Also known as:

  • NMSHTD #1792

From Wikipedia:

San Juan River Bridge at Shiprock

The San Juan River Bridge at Shiprock, in Shiprock, New Mexico, is a Parker through truss bridge built in 1937. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

It is a six-span Parker through truss steel bridge fabricated by W.E. Bondurant. It brought U.S. Highway 64 and U.S. Route 666 (now called US Route 491]) over a broad floodplain of the San Juan River.

From the late 1950s on, when a parallel steel beam bridge was built adjacent to it, it has carried westbound and southbound traffic.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/77846562

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