View From the Bridge
by Britt Runyon
Title
View From the Bridge
Artist
Britt Runyon
Medium
Photograph - Digital
Description
One of America's highest and most famous bridges, route 64 crossing of the Rio Grande near Taos, New Mexico was completed in 1965. A well proportioned cantilever truss with an attractive, curvilinear profile, the bridge received the American Institute of Steel Construction award for Most Beautiful Long Span Steel Bridge of 1966. In 1997 it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
With its headwaters high up in the Rocky Mountains of south-central Colorado, the Rio Grande is America's 4th longest river, stretching 1,885 miles (3,034 km) south to the Gulf of Mexico. Located 10 miles (16 km) west of Taos, the deep gorge of the Rio Grande is the only major rift across an otherwise flat expanse of land between the mountains of the Carson National Forest and the Sangre de Cristos in the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument.
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December 20th, 2014
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