Carries US 97 Design concrete arch Construction begin 1998 Total length 163 m Location Jefferson County, Oregon Body of water Crooked River | Crosses Crooked River Longest span 410 ft (125.0 m) Opened 2000 Clearance below 91 m Bridge type Arch bridge | |
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Locale Jefferson County, Oregon Address 44 California 121, Sonoma, CA 95476, USA Similar Crooked River High Bridge, Peter Skene Ogden St, Prospect State Scenic Vi, Black Butte, The Museum at Warm Spr | ||
The Rex T. Barber Veterans Memorial Bridge is a concrete arch bridge in the western United States; it spans the Crooked River gorge in Jefferson County in central Oregon. Designed by T. Y. Lin International, the bridge was completed in 2000 to replace the Crooked River High Bridge. Parallel and west, the older bridge was built in 1926 and was not wide enough to accommodate increased traffic on US 97.
The bridge has a total length of 535 ft (163.1 m), an arch span of 410 ft (125.0 m) and is situated 300 ft (91.4 m) above the canyon floor. It was the first bridge in the United States to use a cast-in-place segmental method of construction.
Initially named the Crooked River Bridge, it was renamed in 2003 for Rex T. Barber (1917–2001), a native of the area. A World War II fighter pilot in the Pacific Theater, Barber shot down the plane carrying Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto in 1943.