Okoboji Trail Bridge
Okoboji Trail Bridge
(Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Bridge #R-1426)
This unique deck plate girder swing bridge carries a former Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road) line over the channel between East and West Okoboji Lakes
Okoboji, Dickinson County, Iowa
Owner: Iowa Department of Natural Resources
Status: Open to Pedestrian Traffic
Built 1890 and c. 1965
by
Lassig Bridge & Iron Works of Chicago, Illinois and Unknown
for
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Design:
83' deck plate girder swing span, 2-30' steel stringers and timber pile trestle
Description:
Deck plate girder swing bridge over East-West Okoboji Lake Channel
Significance: