| Boulder Creek Bridge | |
| Location: | State Highway 119 at milepost 39.13 |
| Coordinates: | 40.0148°N -105.321°W |
| Built: | 1953 |
| Architecture: | Concrete slab and girder |
| Added: | March 11, 2003 |
| Area: | less than one acre |
| Mpsub: | Highway Bridges in Colorado MPS |
| Refnum: | 03000103 |
The Boulder Creek Bridge near Boulder, Colorado is a concrete slab and girder bridge which was built in 1953. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
It brings Colorado State Highway 119 over Boulder Creek, and was under Federal rather than state management as the highway provides access from Boulder to the Roosevelt National Forest.
It was designed by the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads.[1] It is 100feet in total length, and 39feet wide carrying a 34feet-wide roadbed. It consists of three spans, the main one being 48feet long. It has concrete abutments, wingwalls, and spill-through piers. Steel flex beams on the approach were a later addition.[2]
It was deemed technologically significant as one of the first concrete girder bridges in Colorado of a new type, having parabolically arched beams rather than flat ones, and supported by concrete spill through piers.[2]