| Pont des Chutes | |
| Coordinates: | 48.7047°N -77.4447°W |
| Carries: | Road Bridge |
| Crosses: | Rivière Laflamme |
| Locale: | La Morandière-Rochebaucourt |
| Design: | Town lattice |
| Material: | Wood |
| Length: | 64m |
| Clearance: | 4.42m |
| Open: | 1954 |
| Closed: | 2010 |
The pont des Chutes is a covered bridge in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Canada.[1]
Among the last in Quebec, 34 covered bridges were constructed in Abitibi, and are associated with the colonisation of the region in the early 1900s.[2] Today fewer than half of them are extant.
The single-lane bridge is of Lattice truss bridge design. This design was modified by the Quebec Ministry of Colonisation and was used for more than 500 covered bridges in Quebec.[3]
Built in 1954, it was severely damaged in 1961 and again in 1964 when the central pillar failed. The capacity was 8 tonnes.[4] It is so named because of the rapids (chutes) underneath it.
The bridge does not benefit from any provincial or municipal protection.