Euclid - The Abandoned Hillandale Bridge

[scotdor 3]

I was browsing on the Cleveland Memory Project website when I cam across this bridge:

 

http://hlneogis.ulib.csuohio.edu/chronology.asp?id=CUY0056

 

Being that it's in my neighborhood and I'd never heard of it, I grabbed my son and my camera and went to check it out:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hope you liked it, it was quite an interesting find for me!

[oakiehigh 15]

Very cool!

 

[ColDayMan 578]

Awesome obscure bridge!

[The_Cincinnati_Kid 25]

That's cool, but I can't believe the local government left it standing, seems like a huge liability!

 

[ink 59]

Wow, very interesting. So the development site became a park?

[scotdor 3]

There is a proper park there, but the bridge is in the wooded area adjacent to the fenced-off area of the park.  There are trails, though and the bridge actually connects them to the end of Hillandale Dr., allowing you to cross over a watershed.  So it seems intentional, but it's definitely not maintained.

 

You can just barely see it in Google maps:

 

http://goo.gl/maps/vChHz

[mrnyc 406]

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very cool thread and your little man could not be cuter!