The Beaver Bridge
The town of Beaver Arkansas (near Eureka Springs) has learned that they are finalists for The Department of Parks and Tourism's Heritage Award. According to the article in the Carroll County News, the community was able to convince the Arkansas Highway Department to continue to maintain their one-lane bridge over (can't remember which lake that is).
If you've never seen or driven across the bridge, you're missing a real treat. Its a cable suspension bridge with wooden planks across the full expanse. You have to watch the stoplight on each end in order to know when its o.k. to cross. Then once you start across, the bridge has a sort of up and down sway to it. My favorite part though is the sound of your tires as they roll across the planks. I only wish they hadn't painted it that hideous color yellow. Its much more garish in person.
For more photos of the bridge, go here.
Comments
Beaver Lake, I believe.
The bridge was featured prominently on a program entitled "Historic Bridges of Arkansas" that ran @ 3am on AETN once. I Tivo'd it. I thought it was a very good production.
The nickname is the Little Golden Gate Bridge.
Arkansas R.F.D.: As a side-note, my ex-wife and I were the ones that photographed this, and many others, for the ARkansas Hwy Dept. Maxine is the photographer featured in the program.
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January 25, 2007 09:50 AM