Sunset Lake Floating Bridge
Tuesday, 18th September 2007 by Alex Turnbull
The Sunset Lake Floating Bridge in Brookfield, Vermont is actually a GSS first, as we've never featured a floating bridge before.
Built on floating logs all the way back in 1820, upgraded to tarred barrels in 1884, and plastic barrels in 1978, this is actually the seventh version of the bridge, which despite long periods of closure during its lifetime is today open for you to drive your car over if you're in the area.
Bear in mind that you're more than likely to get a little wet though, as the bridge was actually designed to be permanently semi-submerged...
You can read more about the bridge at Roadside America. Thanks to Jel.
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Alex has decided that his title will be Senior Vice President of Stuff.
I’m surprised that you’ve never mentioned a floating bridge. Both of the major east-west bridges in Seattle, WA are floating bridges.
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WOW!!! I have actually been across this bridge. My wife used to live right up the road from here. Small world.
Another floating bridge at Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada:
Okanagan Lake Bridge
Call me a fussy fusspot but i like my bridges to actually bridge things and not idly float on top of things. Why dont they just build a proper bridge?
Welllllll … If you WANT to be fussy: According to Merriam-Webster: bridg-ing transitive verb to join by a bridge bridge noun a time, place, or means of connection or transition Which this certainly is …
Another Washington state floating bridge is the Hood Canal Bridge, the 3rd longest overall and the longest over a saltwater tidal basin (from Wikipedia so…).
WSDOT Faq says there are 11 floating bridges in the world and 4 are in the Puget Sound Area. Where’s the 4th?
Hood Canal Bridge on Google Maps
The bridge middle section swings open to allow submarines from the Bangor Naval Station to go through, among other traffic.
The answer to yogahz’s question is that I-90 is actually two parallel bridges.
And to answer Cookie Monster (#4): In the case of the Seattle bridges, Lake Washington is too deep, with too muddy a bottom, for the supports that would be required.
one of the only floating bridges in the world, and some nerd is shittin on it 😛 Sorry we aren’t San Francisco with a big honking Golden Gate 😉
but we’re bulding one with a tallll solid section to eliminate the need for a lift span… which is also cool, but you wouldn’t know it I’m sure. So don’t worry, little jimmy, we’ll have your high bridge for you to yell excitedly about when mommy drives you by 😉
Pardon the pun, but people are so shallow, heh….
have a good childhood 🙂
I appologize to all for the double post 🙁 , but bigyaz has a very strong point…. (comment #8). Our lake is also very deep, and has a very muddy, silty bottom as well…. Let’s face it, we don’t have the cleanest lake in the world, haha..