Rulo Bridge

The Rulo Bridge is a bridge that carries U.S. Route 159 over the Missouri River between Rulo, Nebraska and Minton Township, Missouri west of Big Lake.

History

The old Rulo bridge was a truss bridge built in 1939 by the Works Progress Administration and Kansas City Bridge Company. It was featured in the 1973 film Paper Moon, and was added to the National [Register of Historic Places] in 1993.
The historic bridge was imploded on January 19, 2014, and removed from the National Register that year.

Current bridge

In March 2009, Nebraska Department of Roads approved a plan for a new bridge, which would be south of the old bridge. The new Rulo bridge opened in 2013.
The bridge was indefinitely closed to all traffic in April 2019 as a result of the 2019 Midwestern U.S. floods. It reopened in September 2019 for access to Missouri Route 111, and the remainder of U.S. Route 159 was reopened in late October for access to Interstate 29.