Klickitat River Bridge

The bridge this panel describes is gone, and the panel stands in its place. The east span of the Twin Bridges, opened on February 17, 1955, was among the first public bridges in Washington built of prefabricated prestressed concrete girders, cast in Tacoma by Arthur and Tom Anderson's Concrete Technology Corporation and trucked in. The first bridge of the kind in the country had opened only in 1951. A flood took the west twin in 1974. The east span was found eligible for the National Register in 2001 for its pioneering role, and WSDOT replaced it in 2016.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Temani Pesh-wa and She Who Watches — 13 mi
  Rock images cut from a canyon wall weeks before The Dalles Dam drowned it, kept in storage for half a century, and brought back to the river by the treaty tribes.
• Rowena Crest and the Tom McCall Preserve — 14 mi
  A crest where the Ice Age floods jammed against a basalt promontory, above a plateau of mounds no one has fully explained, and a few in the parking loop that the highway department built.
• Celilo Village — 14 mi
  The village that stayed on the bluff above the drowned falls, rebuilt half a century late by the government that flooded them, where the salmon season still opens each April.

More markers nearby

• A Culture Lives On — 12 mi
• Celilo Falls — 13 mi
• Ancient Indian Fishing Grounds — 14 mi
• Deschutes River Crossing — 16 mi