CR-22 Bridge

This Bridge is in Danger!

This bridge has the honor of being the first Ohio bridge to be featured on this website. I found this bridge during my Lenewee County, Michigan trip, and dove a few miles down into Ohio looking for a bridge listed on www.oldohiobridges.com. Unfortunately, that bridge is long-gone, but I discovered this bridge while searching. The CR-22 Bridge was not listed on the Old Ohio Bridges website when I found this bridge.

This bridge is a beautiful pin connected Pratt through truss. The bridge is composed of eight panels, and includes v-lacing on vertical members, on the sway bracing and under the top chord. Eyebars on the bridge are the punched style. Original simple lattice guardrails are present on the bridge. The deck is concrete with corrugated steel under. Portal bracing is a lattice design. The bridge sits on concrete abutments. The bridge still has a fair amount of silver paint left on it.

The locals might not be too fond of this idea, but I think it would be great to restore this bridge for light vehicular traffic, and reopen the road. The bridge could also be moved to a different location and restored there. This has been done with other Ohio bridges. Either way, something needs to be done before a large willow tree that is half tipped over on the bridge falls all the way down and crushes the bridge.