Grave Creek Bridge

	Grave Creek Bridge
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Grave Creek Bridge over Grave Creek near Sunny Valley
	Location of the bridge in Josephine County, Oregon Grave Creek Bridge (the United States)
Coordinates	42°38′10″N 123°22′39″W / 42.63611°N 123.37750°W
Built	1920
Architect	A. A. Clausen and J. Elmer Nelson
Architectural style	Howe truss
MPS	Oregon Covered Bridges TR
NRHP reference No.	79002077
Listed	November 29, 1979

The Grave Creek Bridge is a covered bridge in Josephine County in the U.S. state of Oregon.^[1] It carries Sunny Valley Loop Road over Grave Creek about 15 miles (24 km) north of Grants Pass and within sight of Interstate 5 (I-5).^[1]

Built in 1920, it originally carried U.S. Route 99, the Pacific Highway. The only remaining covered bridge in Josephine County, it is "Oregon's most viewed covered bridge" because of its location near I-5.^[2]

The structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.^[3] It was closed for repairs in the late 1990s and reopened in 2001.^[1]

The 105-foot (32 m) Howe truss bridge features six Gothic windows on each side as well as rounded portals and a shake roof.^[1] The original architects were A. A. Clausen and J. Elmer Nelson.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Grave Creek Covered Bridge" (PDF). Oregon Department of Transportation. Retrieved January 19, 2016.
^ Smith, Dwight A.; Norman, James B.; Dykman, Pieter T. (1989) [1986]. Historic Highway Bridges of Oregon (2nd ed.). Portland: Oregon Historical Society Press. p. 171. ISBN 0-87595-205-4.
^ ^a ^b "Grave Creek Bridge". National Park Service. Retrieved January 19, 2016.

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Media related to Grave Creek Bridge at Wikimedia Commons
Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. OR-26, "Grave Creek Bridge, Spanning Grave Creek on Sunny Valley Loop Road, Sunny Valley, Josephine County, OR", 19 photos, 1 data page, 2 photo caption pages

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[ODOT-1] "Grave Creek Covered Bridge" (PDF). Oregon Department of Transportation. Retrieved January 19, 2016.

[Historic_bridges-2] Smith, Dwight A.; Norman, James B.; Dykman, Pieter T. (1989) [1986]. Historic Highway Bridges of Oregon (2nd ed.). Portland: Oregon Historical Society Press. p. 171. ISBN 0-87595-205-4.

[NPS_document-3] "Grave Creek Bridge". National Park Service. Retrieved January 19, 2016.

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