Summit Bridge

This article does not cite any sources. Please help by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources:  –  ·  ·  · scholar · JSTOR (August 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Summit Bridge
View of the bridge in April 2021
Coordinates	39°32′27″N 75°44′19″W / 39.540786°N 75.738544°W / 39.540786; -75.738544
Carries	4 lanes of DE 71 / DE 896 / Bike Route 1
Crosses	Chesapeake & Delaware Canal
Locale	Summit Bridge, Delaware
Maintained by	U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Characteristics
Design	Cantilever truss bridge
History
Opened	1960
Location

The Summit Bridge carries Delaware Routes 71 and 896 across the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal. The bridge also carries Delaware Bicycle Route 1, a bicycle route that spans the length of the state of Delaware, across the canal. Opened in 1961, the Summit Bridge was the second four-lane high-level crossing in Delaware and was designed to carry an eventual US 301 freeway, however that planned freeway was never built on the alignment utilizing the Summit Bridge. US 301 did use the bridge when it was routed along surface roads from 1961 to 2019, at which time it was rerouted onto a new toll freeway. The current bridge replaces a former swing span structure that was demolished when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers rerouted the canal to a new sea-level channel south of Lums Pond State Park. A construction project on the approaches to the bridge was completed in Fall of 2012.

See also[]

•  Transport portal
•  Engineering portal
• List of crossings of the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal

External links[]

• Media related to Summit Bridge at Wikimedia Commons

This article about a bridge in Delaware is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

• v
• t