Dewey Bridge

The bridge was a bargain from the start: when Grand County couldn't get the state to fund it, voters bonded $25,000 and hired Kansas City's Midland Bridge Company, which narrowed the deck to a single lane to stretch the money. What opened in 1916 was still 502 feet of suspended wooden roadway — the second-longest such span west of the Mississippi, behind only its Arizona twin — rated for six horses, three wagons, and little more. It carried Highway 128 until a modern bridge replaced it in 1988, and a child playing with matches burned its deck in 2008.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Dewey Bridge — steps away
  All that remains of Utah's longest suspension bridge — bare towers and cables over the Colorado River
• Fisher Towers — 5.9 mi
  Towering dark red pinnacles rising 900 feet from the desert floor
• Onion Creek — 6.6 mi
  A scenic backroad that fords the same creek more than two dozen times beneath the spires of Fisher Towers
• Cisco — 11 mi
  A railroad-and-oil ghost town at the east end of UT-128, later a backdrop for "Thelma & Louise"

More markers nearby

• Elk Mountain Mission — 21 mi
• Early LDS Church — 21 mi
• Moab Veterans Memorial — 21 mi