| Arboretum Sewer Trestle | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates: | 47.6395°N -122.2969°W | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Carries: | Pedestrians | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Crosses: | Lake Washington Boulevard | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Locale: | Washington Park Arboretum | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Other Name: | Arboretum Aqueduct | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Owner: | City of Seattle | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Material: | Concrete, brick (façade), | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Material1: | Steel | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Traversable: | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Number Spans: | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Piers In Water: | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Clearance Below: | 9feet | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Architect: | Wilcox & Sayward | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Toll: | None | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The Arboretum Sewer Trestle (also known as Arboretum Aqueduct,[2] Arboretum Aqueduct and Sewer Trestle,[3] or Wilcox Footbridge[3]) is a historic multiarched concrete-and-brick trestle and footbridge[3] in the Washington Park Arboretum in Seattle, Washington. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1982 (ID #82004229). It also has city landmark status, with ID #106070. As observed in a letter to the City Engineering Department in 1912, "The bridge is not an 'apurtenance of the sewer.' It is a piece of ornamental bridge architecture designed elaborately and is a very much greater thing than the sewer itself, in every way."[4]
On April 16, 2008, a charter bus carrying the Garfield High School girls softball team crashed into the trestle, injuring a number of passengers and shearing off the bus's roof.[5]