The Silverdale Bridge

The Silverdale Bridge is a wrought iron truss bridge that was built in 1890 in Sauk Centre. In 1932 it was moved to a very remote area up north, and was the last single lane bridge on the trunk highway system. There was talk about moving it to the Gitch-Gami bicycle trail near Duluth, but instead it was moved to the Gateway bicycle trail near Stillwater in 2010. Here’s some vintage photos of the bridge in it’s first location

Silverdale Bridge
Silverdale Bridge

Here’s the bridge in it’s second location (I believe these photos are a MnDOT work product).

Here’s the bridge at it’s second location near Silverdale, MN

The Silverdale Bridge at Manning Ave

he Silverdale Bridge, now over Manning Ave, profile view, 2012
he Silverdale Bridge, now over Manning Ave, profile view, 2012

Here’s a picture of myslelf on the SilverDale Bridge a few years later. This also functions as a horse trail, the high cables do kind of degrade the historic form, but were added at the request of horseback riders that feared getting thrown off their horses (and you can see some reminders of horsed on the first picture.

Myself on the Silverdale Bridge