Draft:Hell Canyon Bridge

The Hell Canyon Bridge near the former community of Drake, Arizona is a concrete slab and girder road bridge which was built in 1923. It was documented in the Historic American Engineering Record in 1987 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

It is located on an abandoned section of U.S. Route 89 over Hell Canyon, .5 mi southwest of Drake, in rural Yavapai County, Arizona.

It was documented by Clayton B. Fraser who prepared the MPS study also.

It was listed as part of a 1987 study of historic road bridges in Arizona.

The study also led to listing of the Little Hell Canyon Bridge about 8 mi northwest of Drake.

In the case of the Hell Canyon Bridge, the document used for NRHP listing was a HABS/HAER document prepared by Clayton B. Fraser in 1987, following field visit in 1986, which identified the bridge as being .5 miles southwest of Drake.

The document notes that "The Hell Canyon Bridge functioned on U.S. Highway 89 until its replacement by a route realignment in 1954. It now stands abandoned, carrying intermittent local traffic."

Architect or builder: Arizona Highway Dept.; Et al. Architecture: Concrete slab and girder bridge, try slab and girder try slab and girder bridge try concrete bridge

Criteria: event, architecture/engineering

The Big Hell Canyon Railroad Bridge, a scenic railroad bridge, crosses at a higher level, about 500 ft to the south (downstream).