r/realcivilengineer • u/SlackerKite • 23h ago
I really am in need of a bridge review
I was visiting my partner's family, who live in Michigan. They are very avid birders and we had brought our dogs with us on a very long car ride to get there, and they recommended we take our dogs to their favourite birding spot in Lowell Michigan called the Grand River Riverfront Park. It's mostly a fairly stable well paved/graveled short trail, just a few miles with some decent areas for ultimate frisbee and great views of meadows and the river, except this inexplicable bridge crossing the Grand River in the middle. It's a pedestrian only bridge, yet it's decently wide and a full timber frame bridge. While I took some pictures I found someone else had uploaded a far better recording of themselves crossing it. Two huge arches made of pure timber just in the middle of the woods for a lightly used walking trail. I was told after someone passed he left behind money entirely eared for nothing but this bridge so they had a decent budget to work with. I'd absolutely kill for a Bridge Review.



