Beaver Creek Bridge (III)

Route 2 / US 30

1918

Beaver Creek Bridge (III)Google Earth Imagery Date: June 18, 2021

"This is the last of the original twelve concrete bridges built through the Beaver Valley section of the old highway. It was completed in 1920 by the Warren Construction Company, which was also responsible under the same contract for the culvert just west of the intersection of Larson and Old Rainier roads."

Taylor 73

mtncorg, "Lower Columbia River Highway - Magic in the Remains" Meandering through the Prologue, January 30, 2022

Crossing Beaver Creek, the old highway used twelve little bridges. The uppermost bridge is crossed just after ascending the Rainier Loops. That bridge is one of three remaining bridges of twelve constructed over the creek in 1918 according to the bridgehunter.com site. Michael Taylor in his book attributes the bridge date to 1920 making it one of Conde McCullough’s. This seems to be corroborated by a recent news article in a local St Helens newspaper quoting a county road engineer who puts this bridge by Hudson-Parcher Park as being newer than the originals further downstream.

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The uppermost bridge – the 1920 bridge by Hudson-Parcher Park – is also scheduled for replacement being rated as being too narrow for the log trucks rumbling across.

mtncorg, "Lower Columbia River Highway - Magic in the Remains" Meandering through the Prologue. January 30, 2022https://meaderingthroughtheprologue.com/lower-columbia-river-highway-magic-in-the-remains Accessed: November 15, 2022

Bridgehunter.com: Beaver Creek Bridge

Overview

Concrete tee beam bridge over Beaver Creek on Old Hwy 30

Location

Columbia County, Oregon

Status

Open to traffic

History

Built 1918

Builder

- Lewis W. Metzger (Engineer)

Design

The Beaver Creek Bridge is one of three remaining Beaver Creek crossing from the 1918 construction of the Lower Columbia River Highway. The bridge is a single span reinforced concrete beam bridge with typical aesthetic railing found on other bridges from the era, such as the Rock Creek Bridge in Wasco County.