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Satank Bridge

Garfield County, US

Satank Bridge

Satank Bridge is a steel and timber Pratt through truss bridge in Garfield County, Colorado, United States. The bridge crosses the Roaring Fork River at the unincorporated community of Satank near the town of Carbondale and sits on a trail connecting Glenwood Springs to Aspen in the Roaring Fork Val

ley. Designed by Fred H. Bullen and constructed by his Pueblo Bridge Company in May 1900, the Satank Bridge spans 102 ft (31 m) and is 14 ft (4.3 m) wide. Garfield County's government, who contracted for the bridge's original construction, sponsored a restoration effort undertaken in 2010 and 2011. The restoration of the bridge – by then the sole example of a timber Pratt through truss in public use in Colorado – was partially funded by History Colorado in what was then that organization's largest single-project grant. Iron elements of Satank Bridge's original construction were replaced with steel by the Gould Construction restorers. The bridge has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1985 and is listed on the Colorado State Register of Historic Properties.

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