• Friday-What'sUP October 23 - 06:52 pm

Make sure you know the weight of your vehicle and passengers as you approach this steel span, the sign before crossing informs you that the weight limit is 40 tons. Looks like Brian and Shawn Malone headed out for a drive in Negaunee Township looking for some color and were rewarded with a view including the hues of the leaves and the blending of the rusting steel bridge on County Road 510. Also known as the Dead River Bypass, we were given directions how to find this road from E. Neil Harri on Wednesday's Pasty Cam, "You can access 510 from just East of old Marquette airport on Midway Drive…."

Woah! This morning as we were publishing the picture of the day, I happened to notice the weather over on Pasty.NET. First I recall seeing sub-freezing temp this Fall.

Beautiful picture - wish I was UP there!

Thanks for this picture. A favorite road for all of
us displaced Marquette County people.
It's been a good fall, though. Guess it's time
for frost and sub-freezing temperatures.

Beautiful photo! I remember an old steel bridge back home in Wyandotte when I was a kid: the Mill Street Bridge that crossed the Ecorse Crick (as we kids pronounced it then). It was closed and finally torn down some years ago. Always a thrill to cross it and hear the girders humming. By the way, it's 24 degrees here this morning between Harbor Springs and Pellston. Hard frost and white moon.

Morning also from Suomi!

Picture is very gentle (nice..) - would be certainly emotionals ride this way some sunday and between stop and eat sandwiches!

Japei has a great idea. This is a super pic. Sorry about the weather. It's not so bad here yet.

Morning All.

Todays picture is a good canidate for WOW. I second the Japei idea. Enjoy the day everyone!

I wonder when this bridge was built. I know that after ww2 alot of bridges were built in rural areas from left over temp bridges that were meant for Europe.Dont think I would like to meet a logging truck while going across this one.

We are very lucky thar the big Dead River Flood did not destroy this bridge, it came very close to doing it.

I love that old bridge.

If you have never been there, that road north
is a great sunday afternoon drive.

How nice to see a view some of my family sees every day. Makes me feel a little closer...

Here's wishing good luck to the Trojans and Lakers tomorrow. Very important HS football game for both schools.

Should be a hard fought battle, no matter who emerges the victor.

Wow, the colors are beautiful in this pic...almost looks like an oil painting. Love the old steel bridge. John and Anne, I think this would be a white knuckle ride across this bridge, in a semi...or at least a 'hold your breath' until you get to the other side without encountering another vehicle.

This is a great picture! What a great view of God's country

I was wondering if this old bridge was where U.S.41 used to go? Remember driving over bridges like this in days gone by.

Beautiful fall picture.

Another nice picture for color viewing folks like me. It's sure getting to feel like fall here in the lower peninsula too!

Here is another view of the bridge from a pastycam guest contributor last year. Compare the colors!

https://pasty.com/pcam/rmanthei/Photo_2004_9_21_21_39_18_edited

Oh-Oh....maybe it's not the same bridge...still beautiful tho'!!

Since the dam broke have the Falls been accessible? I remember going over this bridge up towards the substation where we would park and walk a trail to the falls.

MY SON AND I USED TO FISH UNDER THIS BRIDGE. IT IS THE McLURE DAM BRIDGE. WALLEYES ARE PLENTIFUL AND THE WATER IS ABOUT 58 FEET DEEP AS IT USED TO BE A RIVER IN A RAVINE.

What a gorgeous picture!

that very bridge was brought from the Allegheny River in Pennsylvania..http://www.pcnate.com/bridges/truss/cr510/
http://www.michigan.gov/mdot/0,1607,7-151-9620_11154_11188-29396--,00.html

Walt...............58 feet deep? That is mighty deep for any UP river. Will have to check this one out. Beautiful shot.....

Thanks all for the nice commments.
Inwis-
You know, I spent alot of time in the Cincinnati area years ago, and that bridge looks like something seen frequently in Ohio-Pennsylvania area- Thanks for the fun fact.

Justin,
the falls are accessible, but not the same as pre-flood. All the shorelines are scrubbed,, clogged with large downed trees, will take years to be aesthetically pleasing again.

Beautiful photo.