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  Bridge Mountain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bridge Mountain is one of the mountains surrounding Red Rock Canyon in the Spring Mountains of Nevada, United States.
Bridge Mountain is the highest peak in the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area.
Bridge Mountain is also a peak in Zion National Park with a tall, narrow freestanding arch.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bridge_Mountain   (125 words)

  
 Williamsburg Bridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Williamsburg Bridge is a suspension bridge in New York City across the East River connecting Manhattan at Delancey St. with the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn on Long Island at Broadway near the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (Interstate 278).
The height at the center of the bridge is 135 feet (41 m) and each tower is 335 feet (102 m); these measurements taken from the river's surface at high water mark.
The bridge is one of only two major bridges in New York City to carry both vehicle and rail traffic, the Manhattan Bridge is the other.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Williamsburg_Bridge   (306 words)

  
 Rainbow Bridge NM: Administrative History (Chapter 1)
This is not to say that the plateau lacks mountains; on the contrary, several peaks emerged on the plateau but not from the same causes as larger mountain ranges to the north and west.
To the east of Navajo Mountain is the Monument Upwarp monocline and to west lies the Kaibab Uplift.
In the region of Rainbow Bridge, the Navajo Sandstone is a distinctive element.
www.nps.gov /rabr/adhi/adhi1.htm   (3858 words)

  
 "No Hands" Bridge
The bridge was completed on March 23, 1912, by 600 men working on the Placer County side and 200 more on the E1 Dorado side to the tune of $300,000.
At the time of its construction the bridge was the longest concrete arch bridge in the world.
The bridge has withstood the tugging of the American River currents for over 80 years and stayed on its footings when the Hell Hole Dam broke in December 1964 and took out two modern bridges upstream.
www.co.el-dorado.ca.us /stories/nohands.html   (520 words)

  
 The Bear Mountain Bridge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
It was the first vehicular bridge on the Hudson south of Albany and when it was built it was the longest suspension bridge in the world.
The builders of the bridge were Terry and Tench and it only took them 20 months and 4 days to construct this bridge with out the loss of life and at that time its cost was $2,900,000 which is about $89,325,000 today.
Once the Bear Mountain Bridge was complete there was still lots more work to do, as part of the deal the bridge company had to build roads that led up to it on both sides of the Hudson River.
www.ce.udel.edu /~casey/database/article2.html   (393 words)

  
 Mountain View residents say bridge is vital   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Mountain View Bridge off County Route 27, which spans a narrow portion of Mountain View Lake, was closed in 1996 when it was determined to be unsafe.
County legislators are considering removing the bridge altogether, but many residents of the area are firmly against that idea and want the bridge fixed and re-opened.
Ford said that with the bridge out, snowmobilers often choose to cross the ice-covered water near the bridge, which is an accident waiting to happen because the deep, swift-moving water in that area doesn’t always freeze very thick.
www.pressrepublican.com /Archive/2001/08_2001/081720015.htm   (605 words)

  
 History of Rainbow Bridge, Utah
Its prime attraction is Rainbow Bridge, the largest, the most symmetrical, and arguably the most beautiful natural bridge in the world.
Rising 290 feet above the streambed of Bridge Creek, the bridge is 32 feet thick at its narrowest and spans 270 feet.
Although known to Navajos and Paiutes living in the area, the bridge was not formally discovered by white men until 14 August 1909 when two exploring expeditions, one headed by Dr. Byron Cummings, and one headed by William B. Douglass, joined forces.
www.onlineutah.com /rainbowbridgehistory.shtml   (551 words)

  
 Mid-Hudson Bridge (US 44 and NY 55)
Upon opening, the bridge toll was 80 cents for automobiles, and 10 cents for pedestrians and cyclists.
In the summer of 1983, the existing two-lane roadway on the bridge was widened to three lanes.
In 1994, the bridge was ceremonially renamed the "Franklin D. Roosevelt Mid-Hudson Bridge" in honor of the former Governor and President.
www.nycroads.com /crossings/mid-hudson   (1244 words)

  
 Bear Mountain Bridge (US 6 and US 202)
The Bear Mountain Bridge, the southernmost crossing administered by the New York State Bridge Authority, carries US 6 and US 202 across the Hudson River, from Bear Mountain State Park at the northern tip of Rockland County to the northwestern corner of Westchester County.
The bridge was sold to New York State in 1940 after it failed to turn a profit for 16 years.
To the east, the bridge approach road was to connect to the Bear Mountain State Parkway and the Bronx Parkway Extension (Taconic State Parkway), projects that were undertaken in the years following completion of the bridge.
www.nycroads.com /crossings/bear-mountain   (1526 words)

  
 Bridge Mountain - Christopher E. Brennen
A narrow neck of slickrock joins the ridge to the west with the mass of Bridge Mountain and thereby allows one to reach the base of the mountain from the west.
The climb is fun and exhilerating; it provides breathtaking views of the maze of canyons around the mountain, of the flatland to the east with Las Vegas in plain view, and of the higher mountains to the northwest.
After passing under the bridge, climb the steep rock slope on the left to get to the large bench that cuts across the whole west face of the mountain.
www.dankat.com /swhikes/bridge.htm   (1570 words)

  
 ABQjournal: Mountain Valley Bridge to Come Down June 1
The Mountain Valley Road bridge project is on schedule, and the old bridge will come down June 1, said Jafar Asgharzadeh, District 3 engineer for the New Mexico Department of Transportation.
By agreement for the federal funding of the bridge project, access must be re-established within 45 days of the closure, Asgharzadeh said.
Besides the bridge substructure, crews have nearly completed the temporary crossovers that will allow the highway department to move traffic from one side of Interstate 40 to the other as bridge demolition and construction progresses, he said.
www.abqjournal.com /mountain/177645mtnview05-20-04.htm   (302 words)

  
 Bridges In The USA And Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Fred Hartman Bridge near Houston, Texas is a cable-stayed bridge with a very unusual double-diamond design for its pylons, each of the two roadways passing through the widest part of each diamond.
The longest bridges in the world, with an overall length of nearly twenty-four miles each, are the two parallel bridges (each being actually made up of over two thousand of smaller spans) across Lake Pontchartrain, connecting the city of New Orleans to I-12 and Covington.
The bridge, which opened in 1951, is the replacement for the famous original suspension bridge which collapsed due to resonance in winds of only 40 miles per hour a few months after its completion in 1940.
freespace.virgin.net /john.cletheroe/usa_can/bridges   (6957 words)

  
 The Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge - Purple Mountain Press
On the bridge deck, wooden railroad ties were smoldering, and next to them, wooden walkways were burning, fanned by a moderate breeze.
On top of the bridge, firemen found that the walkways had already burned enough to make it difficult for them to know where they could safely walk on them, which was disconcerting on such a high bridge.
Purple Mountain Press has published his Listen to the Whistle about the Wallkill Valley Railroad (that title is now out of print in hardcover, however, a paperback edition is contemplated) and The American Leonardo: A Life of Samuel F. Morse (the first paperback edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography).
www.catskill.net /purple/rrbridge.htm   (684 words)

  
 Bridges Spanning the Hudson - Krisy Nigro
The Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge was opened February 2, 1957 to connect the City of Kingston and Rhinecliff in Northern Dutchess County.
Economically, the bridge is important, because it connects New England to the Middle Atlantic States or to the Midwest.
It is a suspension bridge that connects Route 9W and Route 9D across the Hudson River to the northwestern corner of Westchester County.
www.marist.edu /summerscholars/99/trans/ph05.htm   (1002 words)

  
 ABQjournal: New Mountain Valley Bridge Set
The bridge, which is about 30 years old, is being replaced because it is falling apart, said Dennis Valdez, an project engineer with the state Highway and Transportation Department.
The bridge will be reconstructed in 45 days, probably starting as early as February 2004, Valdez said.
Reconstruction of bridges usually take up to six months to complete, but Valdez said the Mountain Valley Road bridge will be done quickly because it will be a modular bridge constructed before it is put into place.
www.abqjournal.com /mountain/42729mtnview05-29-03.htm   (196 words)

  
 Hiking Bear Mountain
TZ Bridge; US 87; Palisades Interstate Parkway north; Route 6 east to the Bear Mountain Bridge Traffic Circle; first exit from circle; turn right at light; turn right into the parking area at Bear Mountain Inn; pay the entrance fee ($5.00 per car).
A fairly large colony of Zanthoxylum americanum, the Toothache Tree, was found on the slope between the highway and the Hudson, and a little north of the Bear Mountain Bridge, under conditions which indicated that it had been originally introduced.
Large bunches of Vitis vulpina, the riverbank or frost grape, with their blue acid berries, festooned the banks, and in the woods and along the main highway several interesting plants were found, such as Bidens bipinnata, Chenopodium hybridum, Trichostema dichotomum, Acalypha virginica, Hedeoma pulegioides, and Pilea pumila.
nynjctbotany.org /whudson/nybrmtn.html   (1310 words)

  
 Grant to Restore Bear Mountain Toll House -- by the Half Moon Press   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Toll House and Bear Mountain Bridge Road were constructed between 1923 and 1924 to connect the newly constructed Bear Mountain Bridge with Route 9.
The Bear Mountain Bridge opened to traffic on November 27, 1924 as the first bridge to span the Hudson River between Albany and New York City.
The Road and Bridge were privately owned and tolls for such were collected at the Toll House and the Bridge itself.
www.hudsonriver.com /halfmoonpress/stories/1199bear.htm   (533 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Bridge Mountain is in Red Rocks, about 20 miles west of Las Vegas, Nevada.
We started our hike on the west side of the mountain, by parking on the Rocky Gap Road (requires 4-wheel drive), and ascending 1000 feet to the ridgeline via North Peak Wash. From the ridgeline, we traveled south, and then east up the "backside" of Bridge.
At the base of the west peak of Bridge.
home.earthlink.net /~stockman3/bridge/bridge.htm   (433 words)

  
 Bicycling in Orange County -- Bike Hudson Valley
Bear Mountain Bridge to Newburgh-Beacon Bridge, loop on both sides of the Hudson river -- 42 miles, hilly.
Newburgh-Beacon Bridge to Mid-Hudson Bridge, loop on both sides of the Hudson river -- 40 miles, hilly.
GWB to Bear Mountain Bridge Loop, on both sides of the Hudson river -- 92 miles (or 83 miles), hilly.
www.roberts-1.com /bikehudson/r/p/w/o/orange_county   (705 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Hudson River Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The official source of the Hudson is Lake Tear-of-the-Clouds in the Adirondack Mountains.
The Hudson is joined at Albany by the Mohawk River and flows south until it reaches the Atlantic Ocean between Manhattan Island and New Jersey, forming New York Harbor, at New York Bay, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean.
The width of the river in its southern half required major feats of engineering to bridge, the results today visible in the Verrazano-Narrows and George Washington Bridges, as well as the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels.
www.ipedia.com /hudson_river_1.html   (548 words)

  
 Mountain View residents optimistic over bridge repairs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
But whether the bridge will be repaired just enough to pass certain tonnage limits or be totally replaced is undecided.
The bridge, off County Road 27 in the Town of Bellmont, was closed by the State Department of Transportation several years ago.
That means the county would still have a sub-par bridge on its hands and would have to eventually spend a lot more money to shore up the span after that.
www.pressrepublican.com /Archive/2001/08_2001/083120015.htm   (603 words)

  
 Grandfather Mountain: Swinging Bridge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Mile High Swinging Bridge was built to give visitors easy access to the breath-taking view from Grandfather Mountain's Linville Peak.
The term "swinging" refers to the fact that suspension bridges are free to sway.
Erecting the bridge took three weeks, a process slowed by inclement weather created by a hurricane off the North Carolina coast.
www.grandfather.com /bridge/bridge.htm   (284 words)

  
 Navajo Mountain-Rainbow Bridge Backpack Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
They were headed for a camp in Oak, as they had to be at Rainbow Bridge the next day for pick-up by the 2 PM boat.
Convinced they were being stalked, Andrea, who is small in stature and suspected by all to be the most likely target, sought company every place she went for a few days.
We made a last visit to the Bridge and left camp by 10:00 to assault Redbud Pass while we were still fresh.
www.kwagunt.net /btrip/rainbow.html   (1775 words)

  
 Rock Climbing: Icebox Canyon: Bridge Mountain
Bridge Mountain is quite prominent from certain locations on the loop road.
Reaching Bridge Mountain from Icebox Canyon itself is complicated and rugged, I have not done it.
There is a primitive trail up Bridge Mountain from the northwest.
www.climbingredrocks.com /rock/db/icebox_canyon/bridge_mountain   (268 words)

  
 Trip Reports on GWB to Bear Mountain Bridge Loop on both sides of the River
But in the northwest direction going toward the Bear Mt Bridge, some of the questionable-visibility curves come in the midst of substantial uphill sections, so I would be going much slower on my bicycle.
But one problem with a bridge: the South sidewalk on the George Washington Bridge was closed, so we had to take the North sidewalk.
On Tuesday I rode a loop of the Bear Mountain Bridge, down the East side of the Hudson River thru Westchester to Manhattan, across the George Washington Bridge, and up the West side thru New Jersey and Rockland county back to Bear Mountain (clockwise direction).
www.roberts-1.com /bikehudson/v/r/gwb_bm/reports   (4846 words)

  
 Station Information - Bridge Mountain
Bridge Mountain from the Red Rock Canyon Outlook
Bridge Mountain is one of the mountains surrounding Red Rock Canyon in the state of Nevada, USA.
Bridge Mountain is 1969m (6460 feet) high, the highest peak in the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area.
www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/b/br/bridge_mountain.html   (65 words)

  
 Bridge Mountain and Clark Mountain
At this point, you are about as high as the summit of Bridge Mountain.
We crossed the bridge, over to more steps, and then over the top of sandstone hills, to see the hidden forest.
Some of us met near Mountain Pass to take the dirt road to a BLM campground high in the range there.
webs.lanset.com /pyamagata/Captions/2001cap/bridgeclark.html   (1017 words)

  
 Emerald Mountain Expressway - More Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In the past, to get to Montgomery the residents of Emerald Mountain were required to drive several miles in the opposite direction to be able to reach one of the arteries leading to the city.
As a result, the group decided to build the bridge themselves as a public-private partnership with the local governments doing the necessary to construct or upgrade existing roads which would connect to the bridge and Mr.
The Emerald Mountain bridge took about ten months to build and saved the citizens of Alabama millions of dollars over what it would have cost had it been built solely by state or local governments.
www.unitedtoll.com /emxtextpic.htm   (393 words)

  
 Rainbow Bridge NM: Home Page
From the time the bridge became known to the outside world in the early 20th century, thousands of people from around the world have visited each year.
Tucked among the rugged, isolated canyons at the base of Navajo Mountain, Rainbow Bridge was known for centuries by the Native Americans who lived in the area.Native Americans living in the region have long held the bridge sacred.
Visiting Rainbow Bridge was made easier with the availability of surplus rubber rafts after World War II, although the trip still required several days floating the Colorado River plus a 7-mile hike up-canyon.
www.nps.gov /rabr/home.htm   (796 words)

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