Long Bridges

Long Bridges is an Idaho historical marker in Bonner County, dedicated 2025.

On pedestrian underpass path (US-95), milepost 473.95

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Travel between Sagle and Sandpoint proved challenging to early residents. They could row. Or they could walk over the railroad trestle—a hike requiring nimble feet and a good knowledge of train schedules. In 1910, contractors sank 1,540 pilings to support a two-mile-long wagon bridge. Locals claimed it the longest wooden bridge in the world. A new automobile bridge replaced the wagon structure in the 1930s, and in the 1950s a concrete and steel span connected the two towns. That bridge remains, a popular walking and biking path that parallels the latest Long Bridge, completed in 1981.

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1909 · Idaho (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1911 · Priest Lake, Idaho (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1913 · Priest Lake, Idaho (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1927 · Spokane, Seattle. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1958 · Sandpoint, Idaho (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

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Long Bridges

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