Highway Department staff engineer King Burghardt designed Red Cliff's sole claim to architectural grandeur. This spectacular 318-foot silvery span over the Eagle River and twin D&RG tracks is the only cantilevered steel arch bridge left in Colorado. Fortunately, the highway department has never altered this graceful giant with its decorative concrete portal obelisks.
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