Suspension Bridges Crossing Manistee River
This is a list of the only bridge from the suspension bridge inventory crossing Manistee River. Please note that different rivers with the same name will be grouped together. For example, selecting 'Bear Creek' shows bridges across several different Bear Creeks. Also, similarly named rivers are grouped separately. For example, 'River Dee' (UK) bridges are grouped separately from 'Dee River' (Australia) bridges. Wherever you see a Bridgemeister ID number click it to isolate the bridge on its own page.
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Little Mac
Marilla vicinity, Michigan, USA - Manistee River
| Bridgemeister ID: | 1316 (added 2004-04-18) |
| Name: | Little Mac |
| Location: | Marilla vicinity, Michigan, USA |
| Crossing: | Manistee River |
| Coordinates: | 44.3654 N 85.826467 W |
| Maps: | Acme, GeoHack, Google, OpenStreetMap |
| Use: | Footbridge |
| Status: | In use (last checked: 2007) |
| Main Cables: | Wire (steel) |
| Suspended Spans: | 1 |
| Main Span: | 1 x 50.9 meters (167 feet) |
Notes:
- This is the third Michigan suspension footbridge I've found nicknamed "Little Mac".
- Stephen Quintana writes: "One of my first projects was to be the inspector on the construction of this bridge. This was somewhere between 1994 and 1996. I remember the contractor's only experience with any Forest Service projects was installing some toilets for us. He had never done anything like this before. I wasn't on the job site the day he pulled the cables across the river, so I asked him how he did it. He said he used a fishing pole with a small weight and cast it across the river. Then he used that to pull a larger rope, then a much larger rope, then finally the cables. I thought they did a pretty good job on this bridge. I remember the cost was somewhere around $100,000 for this project."
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