Boonslick Bridge

The Boonslick Bridge is a series of girder bridges on U.S. Route 40, Route 5 and Route 87 across the Missouri River between Cooper County, Missouri and Howard County, Missouri at Boonville, Missouri. It is named for Nathan Boone (rather than his father Daniel Boone which is popularly reported) who built a road between St. Louis, Missouri and a salt lick just northwest of the bridge which was the first departure location on the Santa Fe Trail.

The bridge also has a segregated pedestrian and bicycle path. The Katy Trail State Park diverts from its railbed alignment to cross the Missouri River using this bridge as the nearby MKT Bridge is unrenovated. The bridge which opened in 1995 replaced a six-span truss bridge built in 1924 that was convert|19|ft|m wide. The earlier bridge was convert|2100|ft|m long with a convert|584|ft|m|sing=on approach in Cooper County and convert|500|ft|m|sing=on approach in Howard County. Three of its spans were convert|420|ft|m and three were convert|280|ft|m.

ee also

*List of crossings of the Missouri River

References

* [http://www.c-magic.com/boonvill/bridge.htm Profile of 1924 bridge] Crossings navbox
structure = Crossings
place = Missouri River
bridge = Boonslick Bridge
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upstream = MKT Bridge
upstream signs = Abandoned Union Pacific Bridge
downstream = Rocheport Interstate 70 Bridge
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