Cliffside Bridge
The bridge resembles a medieval castle and provides several viewing platforms that hikers and riders can enjoy.
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Cliffside Bridge Details
This 232-foot-long structure, built in 1932, resembles a medieval battlement curving out over a vast ravine. The 50-foot span segmental arch has a row of slender and tall radiating voussoirs. On either side of the arch are massive bayed abutments, battered at the base, which at the bridge deck become viewer's platforms. The railing of the bridge is crenulated by the upright placement of massive hand-hewn boulders at regular intervals. The viewers' platforms have the same ponderous crenellation, as well as finely dressed stone chutes set in the masonry to drain water from the structure.
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