Rio Puerco Bridge

The Rio Puerco Bridge is a Parker through truss bridge located on historic U.S. Route 66, crossing the Rio Puerco, that was built in 1933. It is located approximately 19 miles west of Albuquerque, New Mexico.

It was built to carry a past alignment of Route 66 over the Rio Puerco, and in 1997 carried a frontage road for Interstate 40. It no longer carries traffic, and has been bypassed by a different frontage road bridge.It is a single-span Parker through truss steel bridge fabricated by the Kansas City Structural Steel Company and built by F.D. Shufflebarger in 1933. Its substructure includes two concrete piers and massive concrete abutments set upon timber pilings. The total bridge length is 330 feet, including the 250 feet span, which has ten 25 feet panels, and two 40 feet approaches.It is located 40 yards north of the I-40, about 8.9 miles west of I-40 west's exit at Albuquerque.