Rio Puerco Bridge
The Rio Puerco Bridge is a Parker through truss bridge located on historic U.S. Route 66 in western Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States, that is listed on the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties and the National Register of Historic Places.
Description
The bridge crosses the Rio Puerco and was built in 1933. It is located approximately west of Albuquerque.It was built to carry a past alignment of US 66 over the Rio Puerco and carried a frontage road for Interstate 40. Since 1999, it no longer carries vehicle traffic as a different frontage road bridge was built to bypass the original, but it is open to pedestrian only.
The single-span Parker through truss steel bridge was fabricated by the Kansas City Structural Steel Company and built by F.D. Shufflebarger in 1933. Its substructure includes two concrete piers and massive concrete abutments set upon timber pilings. The total bridge length is, including the span, which has ten panels, and two approaches.
It is located north of the I-40, about west of I-40 westernmost exit at Albuquerque.
The bridge was added to the NRHP July 15, 1997.