I didn't see a previous thread regarding the topic of roads atop of dams, someone correct me if I didn't find it using the search function. Roads atop dams used to be a fairly common feature seen on roadways and have become far less so in modern times. Certainly the likely most famous example would be former US 466/US 93 over Hoover Dam (which can still be driven across) but I'm more interested in active roadways atop dams. I encountered two roads atop dams today out in Sierra National Forest:
1. Mckinley Grove Road atop of Wishon Dam in Sierra National Forest.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49947497442_37f69e8c77_4k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2j6FYR1)IMG_5614 (https://flic.kr/p/2j6FYR1) by Max Rockatansky (https://www.flickr.com/photos/151828809@N08/), on Flickr
2. Courtright Dam Road atop the namesake structure also in Sierra National Forest
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49946659153_8c9490ce3a_6k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2j6BFDK)IMG_5714 (https://flic.kr/p/2j6BFDK) by Max Rockatansky (https://www.flickr.com/photos/151828809@N08/), on Flickr
Both examples above are fairly primitive roadways but definitely are open for public access, what else is out there?
The local example that comes to mind is CA 88 running across the Caples Lake dam (https://www.google.com/maps/@38.7059674,-120.0504059,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1smxPrpghxkfpRyxR7CRGpIQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656), between the Kirkwood ski area and Carson Pass.
CA 88 used to also cross the Silver Lake dam (https://www.google.com/maps/@38.6686627,-120.1227504,447m/data=!3m1!1e3) a few miles to the west of there; according to CAHighways.org that was corrected with a new bridge around 2000.
I haven't been to it in a few decades to give a first-hand account, but the Conklingville Dam, which holds back the water to form New York's Great Sacandaga Lake, has a public road atop it. At least Google still seems to route traffic across it and labels it Conklingville-Lynwood Road.
FM 455, Lake Ray Roberts, E of Sanger, TX
Fairway Dr, Lake Grapevine, Grapevine, TX
OK/ TX 91 atop Denison Dam, which holds back Lake Texoma near Dension, TX
A more unique example is how TN 153 is bridged over the top of Chickamauga Dam in Chattanooga TN
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1069197,-85.2324329,3a,39.2y,99.33h,93.13t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sceAUHVCulWrRqZw4RQqMug!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DceAUHVCulWrRqZw4RQqMug%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D277.72733%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656 (https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1069197,-85.2324329,3a,39.2y,99.33h,93.13t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sceAUHVCulWrRqZw4RQqMug!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DceAUHVCulWrRqZw4RQqMug%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D277.72733%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656)
Also what about formerly active roads atop dams?
The road across Lavon Dam in Collin Co was closed a good while back.
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.0335219,-96.4853501,3a,49.2y,153.28h,89.65t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sAYUayAEv-batiAHJprBkTw!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DAYUayAEv-batiAHJprBkTw%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D22.751219%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656 (https://www.google.com/maps/@33.0335219,-96.4853501,3a,49.2y,153.28h,89.65t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sAYUayAEv-batiAHJprBkTw!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DAYUayAEv-batiAHJprBkTw%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D22.751219%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656)
The old SH 6 is closed across the top of Lake Cisco dam near Cisco, TX:
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.4381112,-98.9884997,1454m/data=!3m1!1e3 (https://www.google.com/maps/@32.4381112,-98.9884997,1454m/data=!3m1!1e3)
The road across Optima Dam near Optima, OK was closed because the guardrail needed replacement and they didn't want to spend the money on it. Also its worth noting that this lake never filled. This was considered a huge government goof-up.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Optima,+OK+73945/@36.6662231,-101.1431395,2764m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x87062aa0eb0b0953:0x8b1a3e51c32d28a6!8m2!3d36.7583594!4d-101.3562716 (https://www.google.com/maps/place/Optima,+OK+73945/@36.6662231,-101.1431395,2764m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x87062aa0eb0b0953:0x8b1a3e51c32d28a6!8m2!3d36.7583594!4d-101.3562716)
Near Lake Dallas, TX: SH 24 (Predecessor to US 380) once ran across the top of the now-abandoned Garza Dam, which held back Lake Dallas before the lake was expanded to create Garza-Little Elm Reservoir. The name was later changed to Lewisville Lake.https://www.google.com/maps/@33.1166102,-96.9911826,361m/data=!3m1!1e3 (https://www.google.com/maps/@33.1166102,-96.9911826,361m/data=!3m1!1e3)
OK 71 over Eufaula Dam
OK 151 over Keystone Dam
Two I've driven in the past week:
Dam Road in Aurora, CO
Route CR 28 in Hayden, CO
Chris
Easy. My preferred route to bypass the predatory screw-the-out-of-stater tolls of Maryland and Delaware: US 1 atop the Conowingo Dam (https://goo.gl/maps/6VcZimVjXZExWbeu9).
The biggest one in Utah is US 191 over Flaming Gorge Dam (https://www.google.com/maps/@40.9137367,-109.4213366,1313m/data=!3m1!1e3):
(https://i.imgur.com/QhEdS65.jpg)
The other state highway example on a major Utah dam is SR 158 over the top of Pineview Dam (https://goo.gl/maps/HpMxq5mjMt43r4Ed8). There are also a few minor ones like SR 78 over Chicken Creek Dam (https://goo.gl/maps/eLmgnaUqAH4vUy1EA), but that's so insignificant I don't think it counts.
In Arkansas there are many 2-lane state and 1 U.S. highways running across many of the USACE dams,
AR-59 runs across Trimble Lock and Dam (13) between Sebastian and Crawford Counties. Functions as the de-facto I-49 connector to AR-549 running through Chaffee east of Ft. Smith/Barling.
AR-187 runs across Beaver Dam in Carroll County.
AR-178 runs across Bull Shoals Dam between Marion and Baxter Counties.
AR-177 runs across Norfork Dam in Baxter County.
AR-5 runs across Greer's Ferry Dam in Cleburne County. This dam was the last thing that JFK dedicated before his untimely demise.
AR-60 runs across Toad Suck (it's really the name, look it up) Ferry Lock and Dam (8) between Perry and Faulkner Counties.
US-79 runs across Emmett Sanders Lock and Dam (4) in Jefferson County near Pine Bluff.
Incidentally, Missouri and Oklahoma have roads going across some of their USACE dams as well.
Little Rock has a pedestrian/biking bridge that runs across Murray Lock and Dam (7).
Quote from: US 89 on May 29, 2020, 12:08:38 AM
The biggest one in Utah is US 191 over Flaming Gorge Dam (https://www.google.com/maps/@40.9137367,-109.4213366,1313m/data=!3m1!1e3):
(https://i.imgur.com/QhEdS65.jpg)
The other state highway example on a major Utah dam is SR 158 over the top of Pineview Dam (https://goo.gl/maps/HpMxq5mjMt43r4Ed8). There are also a few minor ones like SR 78 over Chicken Creek Dam (https://goo.gl/maps/eLmgnaUqAH4vUy1EA), but that's so insignificant I don't think it counts.
US 191 over Flaming Gorge is pretty cool. I featured it on my own page fairly recently.
Alabama Route 144 on the Henry Neely Dam.
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.7829519,-86.0513443,961m/data=!3m1!1e3
Quote from: briantroutman on May 29, 2020, 12:08:29 AM
Easy. My preferred route to bypass the predatory screw-the-out-of-stater tolls of Maryland and Delaware: US 1 atop the Conowingo Dam (https://goo.gl/maps/6VcZimVjXZExWbeu9).
I wouldn't mind driving that some day. Wasn't there a widening project over the dam, or was that some other construction project?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/2016-06-11_09_59_57_View_north_along_U.S._Route_1_%28Conowingo_Road%29_in_northeastern_Harford_County%2C_Maryland%2C_approaching_the_southwest_end_of_the_Conowingo_Dam_on_the_Susquehanna_River.jpg/320px-thumbnail.jpg)
US 221 on the Strom Thurmond Dam between South Carolina and Georgia.
US 21 in Columbia SC runs atop what is (or was) a private dam. This caused a prolonged highway closure when the dam failed after a flood, since the homeowners association that owned the dam couldn't afford to fix it, and SCDOT couldn't legally pay for repairs on a private dam. The highway did reopen after a few years (and I was finally able to go back and complete my clinch of US 21), but I don't know how the legal issue was resolved. I understand there are other SCDOT-maintained roads that are (or were) atop private dams.
There's a park road in Hempstead Lake State Park that runs along a dam at the south end of the park's namesake.
I want to say Mill Dam Road in Centerport, but that's not really a dam. It's just a causeway.
A sidewalk between the German Garden neighborhood and Yaphank Beach dams Upper Yaphank Lake.
Yaphank Avenue (Suffolk CR 21) dams Lower Yaphank Lake.
Victory Boulevard (Suffolk CR 56) dams up the Carman's River at Smith Point County Park.
Between Center Moriches and East Moriches, there's a big sidewalk over the Terrell River on the north side of Montauk Highway (Suffolk CR 56) that looks like it's wide enough to drive a small car on. It almost makes you think that this might've been the original Montauk Highway there.
And of course, you've got Dam Road between South River Road and Forge Road, which dams up the Peconic River in Calverton, creating Peconic Lake.
I don't know if the dam has a name, but US-40 runs across the Stillwater River dam in Englewood, Ohio (just outside Dayton). The dam creates the reservoir to the north of the road, although the water isn't plainly visible from the road.
Quote from: formulanone on May 29, 2020, 03:43:59 AM
Alabama Route 144 on the Henry Neely Dam.
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.7829519,-86.0513443,961m/data=!3m1!1e3
AL 101 runs over Wheeler Dam
AL 133 used to run over Wilson Dam in Florence
Logan-Martin Dam has a road over it.
Quote from: jdb1234 on May 29, 2020, 11:29:33 AM
Quote from: formulanone on May 29, 2020, 03:43:59 AM
Alabama Route 144 on the Henry Neely Dam.
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.7829519,-86.0513443,961m/data=!3m1!1e3
AL 101 runs over Wheeler Dam
Should have remembered that, it's a narrow one and it has a truss on the north side:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49094440292_e8ae8bf845_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hNiQF7)
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49094440492_8c66b87f64_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hNiQJy)
MO 165 & 265 over Table Rock Dam (there is a popular beach near the dam)
Virginia SR 4 atop the John H Kerr Dam on the Roanoke River.
https://goo.gl/maps/rVosqDex6LAKcWZr8
In Connecticut:
CT 318 across Saville Dam, Barkhamsted: https://goo.gl/maps/51D3dxbPpVzWKGyG8
CT 34 across Lake Zoar Dam (Housatonic River): https://goo.gl/maps/aEXWC91BnDB887ZL7
West Thompson Road (fictional CT 193 extension), Thompson: https://goo.gl/maps/dseFNoF9Wr5776U16
Well crap, how long ago did US-62 stop running along the top of the Kentucky Dam?
That used to be a favorite route for local truckers wishing to avoid the weigh scales on I-24.
US-441 over Norris Dam, near Rocky Top, TN.
https://goo.gl/maps/ffkaD9C2464H6tS7A
Quote from: formulanone on May 29, 2020, 11:47:10 AM
Quote from: jdb1234 on May 29, 2020, 11:29:33 AM
Quote from: formulanone on May 29, 2020, 03:43:59 AM
Alabama Route 144 on the Henry Neely Dam.
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.7829519,-86.0513443,961m/data=!3m1!1e3
AL 101 runs over Wheeler Dam
Should have remembered that, it's a narrow one and it has a truss on the north side:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49094440292_e8ae8bf845_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hNiQF7)
And the No Passing Zone is on the wrong side of the street.
SC 6 at Lake Murray.
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0532988,-81.2182611,3a,75y,143.94h,78.26t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sMDmkOrPO8plQs89d-5BLmQ!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo3.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DMDmkOrPO8plQs89d-5BLmQ%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D63.73986%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656 (https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0532988,-81.2182611,3a,75y,143.94h,78.26t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sMDmkOrPO8plQs89d-5BLmQ!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo3.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DMDmkOrPO8plQs89d-5BLmQ%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D63.73986%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656)
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.052302,-81.2182324,3a,60y,156.76h,86.32t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sM24XS2lGsXcj8bD_FQKdrQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 (https://www.google.com/maps/@34.052302,-81.2182324,3a,60y,156.76h,86.32t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sM24XS2lGsXcj8bD_FQKdrQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)
This is a pretty interesting configuration, divided highway and one road goes below the top of the dam.
Hardy Dam in Newaygo County has an active road crossing it: https://www.google.com/maps/@43.4882648,-85.6315539,3a,75y,281.55h,82.52t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1syEC4SMNvJ_uwDXjMjvghAw!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DyEC4SMNvJ_uwDXjMjvghAw%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D346.79663%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i3328!8i1664
Parker Dam Road carries AZ 95S over the namesake Dam by way of the Colorado River into Earp, California:
https://flic.kr/p/RKYvy1
Some previous highways that I recall from Arizona was the earliest version of US 80 which crossed Gillespie Dam and AZ 188 which once crossed Roosevelt Dam.
US127 on Wolf Creek Dam Kentucky. Eventually will be bypassed.
You used to go over Hoover Dam before they built a Bypass bridge.
SM-G950U
Quote from: ibthebigd on May 29, 2020, 06:35:14 PM
US127 on Wolf Creek Dam Kentucky. Eventually will be bypassed.
You used to go over Hoover Dam before they built a Bypass bridge.
SM-G950U
You can still cross the State Line on the Hoover Dam, you just need to turn around in Arizona.
Quote from: kphoger on May 29, 2020, 12:20:15 PM
Well crap, how long ago did US-62 stop running along the top of the Kentucky Dam?
That used to be a favorite route for local truckers wishing to avoid the weigh scales on I-24.
After 9/11. Both the road and the railroad were moved off the dam, I'm told for security reasons.
I have a concrete example which is Brighton Dam Road:
https://goo.gl/maps/UyiX1eVydZ5mBzix9
Here are some earthen dams that roads cross:
Here's a local road on a small dam near my home:
https://goo.gl/maps/feGkT5zUi6jcVjF56
Wisteria Drive crosses the dam that holds Gunners Lake.
https://goo.gl/maps/h4gc4wJ9VoaQrLJs5
This one is a park road which crosses the dam that forms Clopper Lake:
https://goo.gl/maps/upg7Ejg6nRW97cxu9
more:
https://goo.gl/maps/Cg4itM4FojKj7dqY9
https://goo.gl/maps/Tcd9roBaL5z5z2cY7
TX 22 runs along the dam holding Whitney Lake. Most of it is on an artificial hill, but part of it is a bridge that runs above the flood gates. The old route is now along two FM roads and a county road, with part of it in the lake.
https://goo.gl/maps/Ma3UCtbXzrKRxhNN8
FM 310 runs over the Lake Aquilla dam, a small one. There's no spillway structure, but it looks like there's an emergency spillway that runs over the ground and into a creek. The water would flood the road if it poured through that outlet to get around the dam. It looks like the lake has never gotten within 10 feet of that elevation. The Street View is old.
https://goo.gl/maps/9xX9CiTPkzVTVob47
Not sure if this counts, but there's West Lake Drive (Westchester CR 144) across the Kensico Dam in New York: https://www.eastcoastroads.com/states/ny/west/cr144
It's a road, but it's currently closed to vehicular traffic and only open to pedestrians and bikes.
I don't know how many exist in New England, but NH-127 in Hopkinton NH is an active road over a dam.
https://goo.gl/maps/4DZc8PXECjeyc9PR8
I swear there are others but for the life of me I am drawing a blank. I know this is probably the closest one to me at a minimum.
Quote from: briantroutman on May 29, 2020, 12:08:29 AM
Easy. My preferred route to bypass the predatory screw-the-out-of-stater tolls of Maryland and Delaware: US 1 atop the Conowingo Dam (https://goo.gl/maps/6VcZimVjXZExWbeu9).
I live in Harford County, so it's easy for me to go this way to avoid the tolls if I'm going to, say, the Philadelphia area. I went to Staten Island one time and made my way through Cecil County (1 to 273) and took 273 into Delaware, to I-95 and to I-295, where I had to pay the tolls for the Delaware Memorial Bridge and New Jersey Turnpike, but not the Tydings Bridge or the Delaware I-95 toll.
Quote from: hbelkins on May 29, 2020, 08:26:40 PM
Quote from: kphoger on May 29, 2020, 12:20:15 PM
Well crap, how long ago did US-62 stop running along the top of the Kentucky Dam?
That used to be a favorite route for local truckers wishing to avoid the weigh scales on I-24.
After 9/11. Both the road and the railroad were moved off the dam, I'm told for security reasons.
I heard that the Bronx River Parkway was moved off the Kensico Dam for the same reason.
Speaking of the Kensico Dam, as a kid I ran down a steep staircase along the embankment there, and survived! In fact, I didn't even get hurt!
Quote from: hbelkins on May 29, 2020, 08:26:40 PM
Quote from: kphoger on May 29, 2020, 12:20:15 PM
Well crap, how long ago did US-62 stop running along the top of the Kentucky Dam?
That used to be a favorite route for local truckers wishing to avoid the weigh scales on I-24.
After 9/11. Both the road and the railroad were moved off the dam, I'm told for security reasons.
Are you sure it was that long ago? I could swear I remember driving along the top as recently as 2007.
K-13 over the Tuttle Creek Dam north of Manhattan, Kansas. K-57 over the Milford Dam west of Fort Riley.
Quote from: kphoger on May 31, 2020, 02:56:06 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on May 29, 2020, 08:26:40 PM
Quote from: kphoger on May 29, 2020, 12:20:15 PM
Well crap, how long ago did US-62 stop running along the top of the Kentucky Dam?
That used to be a favorite route for local truckers wishing to avoid the weigh scales on I-24.
After 9/11. Both the road and the railroad were moved off the dam, I'm told for security reasons.
Are you sure it was that long ago? I could swear I remember driving along the top as recently as 2007.
That was the impetus for the change. I can't remember the last time I drove across the dam, if it was before or after 9/11, but I think the project was conceived after that. It would be incredibly surprising for a project of such magnitude to be completed in just six years.
CR 530 in Burlington County NJ goes across the Mirror Lake Dam in Browns Mills NJ, several roads in that town go over dams. that is just the biggest one.
Quote from: 1995hoo on May 29, 2020, 07:31:51 AM
I don't know if the dam has a name, but US-40 runs across the Stillwater River dam in Englewood, Ohio (just outside Dayton). The dam creates the reservoir to the north of the road, although the water isn't plainly visible from the road.
That's Englewood Dam. Just a few miles east of that, US 40 goes over the Taylorsville Dam in Vandalia, Ohio, which is on the Great Miami River.
There's five flood control dams in the Miami Conservancy system. Conservancy Rd over Germantown Dam is still open to cars. Huffman Dam is closed to cars (bypassed by SR 444) but has a bike path across it. Lockington Dam Road has been closed for at least 20 years.
NY 21 is on top of the Hornell Reservoir #2 Dam. Aerial (https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3977547,-77.6222554,125m/data=!3m1!1e3) StreetView (https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3975747,-77.6225779,3a,75y,20.7h,76.53t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1szPNJLkRyXGHCIHVVM-_Rzg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)
Just around the corner, County Route 57 is on the Hornell Reservoir #3 Dam. Aerial (https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3906249,-77.6271077,257m/data=!3m1!1e3) no Streetview
PQ-161 is on top of a small dam who control the water flow from Lake Aylmer in St-Gérard (now amalgated to Weedon). https://www.google.com/maps/@45.7604708,-71.4064504,3a,75y,165.96h,100.91t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sGFQ1qRwBNsobE2kbV8z2Hg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
KY 1039/IN 101 atop the Markland Dam and Locks near Vevay, IN.
KY 10/OH 253 atop the Greenup Dam and Locks near Greenup, KY.
I've driven across the Frances E Walter Dam not far from the I-80 / I-476 interchange in NE PA:
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.1109763,-75.7201764,3a,75y,309.2h,87t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shIxSdWTetG15iFOu6g-CUA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.1109763,-75.7201764,3a,75y,309.2h,87t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shIxSdWTetG15iFOu6g-CUA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)
Every time I cross the Conowingo Dam mentioned above I always think "I can't believe they managed to shoehorn in two travels lanes on this". No margin for error there.
In the Vancouver, BC area, visited just before international travel was curtailed: Ruskin Dam (https://goo.gl/maps/NAVxKkqwhQvhucTT7) (the road has been widened since the Street View.)
Stave Falls. (https://goo.gl/maps/LocKpBg8t5F5DwkX7)
Quote from: formulanone on May 29, 2020, 03:43:59 AM
Alabama Route 144 on the Henry Neely Dam.
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.7829519,-86.0513443,961m/data=!3m1!1e3
It's Neely Henry not Henry Neely. According to Wiki, he was an executive at Alabama Power.
Also, just a little further down the Coosa is Logan Martin Dam (near Alpine, AL).
Quote from: ErmineNotyours on June 01, 2020, 09:17:52 PM
In the Vancouver, BC area, visited just before international travel was curtailed: Ruskin Dam (https://goo.gl/maps/NAVxKkqwhQvhucTT7) (the road has been widened since the Street View.)
Stave Falls. (https://goo.gl/maps/LocKpBg8t5F5DwkX7)
The 2018 Street View along Wilson St appears to show the widening in progress
A favorite of mine. Every time I went to Savannah, Tennessee, for my Father's annual family reunion, I would make it a point to visit the Pickwick Dam over the Tennessee River, which was only 10 miles out from the city.
Tennessee Route 128 travels across the top of the dam. Seen here. (https://goo.gl/maps/qHtLEEpB79vbHyzh8)
Quote from: nwi_navigator_1181 on June 02, 2020, 09:14:37 PM
A favorite of mine. Every time I went to Savannah, Tennessee, for my Father’s annual family reunion, I would make it a point to visit the Pickwick Dam over the Tennessee River, which was only 10 miles out from the city.
Tennessee Route 128 travels across the top of the dam. Seen here. (https://goo.gl/maps/qHtLEEpB79vbHyzh8)
Looks like that's built the same way as TN 153 at Chickamauga Dam
Quote from: briantroutman on May 29, 2020, 12:08:29 AM
Easy. My preferred route to bypass the predatory screw-the-out-of-stater tolls of Maryland and Delaware: US 1 atop the Conowingo Dam (https://goo.gl/maps/6VcZimVjXZExWbeu9).
Yes, this is one of the few dam/shunpike routes I've taken in my travels. What's interesting (to me, at least), is that I originally planned to shunpike on US-40, on the easy to access route of MD-155 and MD-222. Then I learned that that's tolled as well. But by then, I was so committed to shunpiking that I decided to take the following route, no matter how much extra time it took.
(https://i.imgur.com/8aWPuEd.png)
I got groceries in Rising Sun, which I'm sure is something you wanted to know.
WV 93 at Mt. Storm Lake (https://goo.gl/maps/LEQPToMUmdH5S4Cv8), although I'm surprised that road hasn't been removed since US 48 (Corridor H) now bypasses it.
Dillon Dam Road (https://www.google.com/maps/@39.6229157,-106.0608246,3a,75y,5.89h,92.86t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sLHYjhnPvTREFkYF7g4C9hA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) between Frisco and Dillon, Colorado. It used to be open 24/7, but in the 2010s Denver Water (who owns the reservoir) decided for theater security to close it. An outcry caused them to compromise to allow car traffic during the day and closing gates at night.
Quote from: MikieTimT on May 29, 2020, 12:13:57 AM
In Arkansas there are many 2-lane state and 1 U.S. highways running across many of the USACE dams,
AR-59 runs across Trimble Lock and Dam (13) between Sebastian and Crawford Counties. Functions as the de-facto I-49 connector to AR-549 running through Chaffee east of Ft. Smith/Barling.
AR-187 runs across Beaver Dam in Carroll County.
AR-178 runs across Bull Shoals Dam between Marion and Baxter Counties.
AR-177 runs across Norfork Dam in Baxter County.
AR-5 runs across Greer's Ferry Dam in Cleburne County. This dam was the last thing that JFK dedicated before his untimely demise.
AR-60 runs across Toad Suck (it's really the name, look it up) Ferry Lock and Dam (8) between Perry and Faulkner Counties.
US-79 runs across Emmett Sanders Lock and Dam (4) in Jefferson County near Pine Bluff.
Incidentally, Missouri and Oklahoma have roads going across some of their USACE dams as well.
Little Rock has a pedestrian/biking bridge that runs across Murray Lock and Dam (7).
Millwood Dam in Southwest Arkansas also has a state highway across it.
Greers Ferry is one of those rare occurrences where ARDOT signs a concurrency throughout. It's actually AR 5/25 and is mainly known as 25. Speed limit used to be 30 across the dam and I was pleased to see earlier this year they hiked it to 45 finally. (Nobody observed the limit either way and nobody enforced it.)
I have a bigger gripe that Little Rock is a control city on the new Heber bypass, but after you get to the top of the mountain Little Rock disappears.
SD47 crosses over Big Bend Dam, one of the Pick-Sloan dams on the Missouri River. Plus, one can drive over Gavins Point Dam on a road that connects SD52 with N-121 on the Nebraska side of the dam.
Quote from: CtrlAltDel on June 02, 2020, 11:05:02 PM
Quote from: briantroutman on May 29, 2020, 12:08:29 AM
Easy. My preferred route to bypass the predatory screw-the-out-of-stater tolls of Maryland and Delaware: US 1 atop the Conowingo Dam (https://goo.gl/maps/6VcZimVjXZExWbeu9).
Yes, this is one of the few dam/shunpike routes I've taken in my travels. What's interesting (to me, at least), is that I originally planned to shunpike on US-40, on the easy to access route of MD-155 and MD-222. Then I learned that that's tolled as well. But by then, I was so committed to shunpiking that I decided to take the following route, no matter how much extra time it took.
(https://i.imgur.com/8aWPuEd.png)
I got groceries in Rising Sun, which I'm sure is something you wanted to know.
Personally, I wouldn't go there to shunpike. I'd just do it for the experience.
Quote from: briantroutman on May 29, 2020, 12:08:29 AM
Easy. My preferred route to bypass the predatory screw-the-out-of-stater tolls of Maryland and Delaware: US 1 atop the Conowingo Dam (https://goo.gl/maps/6VcZimVjXZExWbeu9).
And people that have not seen it before are impressed by just how massive the Susquehanna River (and the Conowingo Dam) are.
Quote from: Road Hog on June 04, 2020, 07:58:10 PM
Quote from: MikieTimT on May 29, 2020, 12:13:57 AM
In Arkansas there are many 2-lane state and 1 U.S. highways running across many of the USACE dams,
AR-59 runs across Trimble Lock and Dam (13) between Sebastian and Crawford Counties. Functions as the de-facto I-49 connector to AR-549 running through Chaffee east of Ft. Smith/Barling.
AR-187 runs across Beaver Dam in Carroll County.
AR-178 runs across Bull Shoals Dam between Marion and Baxter Counties.
AR-177 runs across Norfork Dam in Baxter County.
AR-5 runs across Greer's Ferry Dam in Cleburne County. This dam was the last thing that JFK dedicated before his untimely demise.
AR-60 runs across Toad Suck (it's really the name, look it up) Ferry Lock and Dam (8) between Perry and Faulkner Counties.
US-79 runs across Emmett Sanders Lock and Dam (4) in Jefferson County near Pine Bluff.
Incidentally, Missouri and Oklahoma have roads going across some of their USACE dams as well.
Little Rock has a pedestrian/biking bridge that runs across Murray Lock and Dam (7).
Millwood Dam in Southwest Arkansas also has a state highway across it.
Greers Ferry is one of those rare occurrences where ARDOT signs a concurrency throughout. It's actually AR 5/25 and is mainly known as 25. Speed limit used to be 30 across the dam and I was pleased to see earlier this year they hiked it to 45 finally. (Nobody observed the limit either way and nobody enforced it.)
I have a bigger gripe that Little Rock is a control city on the new Heber bypass, but after you get to the top of the mountain Little Rock disappears.
I forgot about the USACE dams in SW Arkansas. Actually all of them other than the lakes downstream of Lake Ouachita have roads running across them, but Millwood Dam is the only one with a non-local/county road running across it.
The Conowingo Dam and US 1 have already been mentioned, but there are a few more such roads in Maryland:
- Prettyboy Dam Road, atop the Prettyboy Dam in northern Baltimore County (N 39.61968 W 76.70744).
- Brighton Dam Road, atop the Brighton Dam, on the Howard County-Montgomery County border (N 39.19299 W 77.00541).
AR 7 is built on the earthen dam of DeGray Lake.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/tDA1WuT4RrmJHb5N6
US-321 near Lenoir City, TN over Ft. Loudon Dam has been replaced by a bridge just downstream in the last couple of years.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Tennessee+River+Bridge/@35.7915731,-84.2497722,1723m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m7!3m6!1s0x885c2b7a67fc358f:0x3ea3a4353f54fbea!8m2!3d35.788733!4d-84.248668!9m1!1b1
IN-5 goes over the J Roush Dam on the Wabash River southeast of Huntington.
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8458223,-85.4687038,3a,75y,2.37h,90.57t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sx1UpNb5lfaEony4k6-lxww!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 (https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8458223,-85.4687038,3a,75y,2.37h,90.57t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sx1UpNb5lfaEony4k6-lxww!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)
NC 73 goes along a levee for the Don T. Howell Reservoir. The dam is about 1000 feet north. NCDOT is planning to build a bridge to the south of the existing causeway/levee road (while still keeping the existing roadway) in order to widen 73 to a 4-lane road as well.
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.4374466,-80.7083458,1195m/data=!3m1!1e3 (https://www.google.com/maps/@35.4374466,-80.7083458,1195m/data=!3m1!1e3)
Quote from: Scott5114 on May 28, 2020, 11:43:24 PM
OK 71 over Eufaula Dam
OK 151 over Keystone Dam
OK 251A over Fort Gibson Dam
OK 100 over Tenkiller Dam
OK 28 over Pensacola Dam. It will be closed soon for repairs.
https://www.ok.gov/triton/modules/newsroom/newsroom_article.php?id=277&article_id=61681
OK 88 over Oologah Dam
OK 10 over Copan Dam
OK 43 over Sardis Dam
OK 259A over Beavers Bend Dam
OK 77S over Lake Murray Dam
OK 44 over Foss Lake Dam
If you expand to look at any active road on a dam, then Oklahoma has too many to list. It would be easier to list the ones that don't have a road. None of the dams associated with the McClellan-Kerr Navigation System have a road. Most of the really old dams don't have a road (Lugert, Dripping Springs, Spavinaw).
West Virginia:
- WV 93 over Mount Storm Dam (already mentioned)
- WV 129 over Summersville Dam
Ohio:
Many of the Muskingum basin dams have roads:
- OH 212 over Atwood Dam
- CR 10 (and US 22, sort of) over Piedmont Dam
- TR 280 over Tappan Dam
- Glenpark Drive over Bolivar Dam
- OH 715 over Mohawk Dam
- OH 574 over Seneca Dam
- Clarksville Road over Caesar Creek Dam
- US 40 over Englewood Dam
- US 40 over Taylorsville Dam
Quote from: rte66man on September 09, 2020, 08:44:38 AM
OK 28 over Pensacola Dam. It will be closed soon for repairs.
https://www.ok.gov/triton/modules/newsroom/newsroom_article.php?id=277&article_id=61681
Boy does the deck ever need replacing on that one. Definitely can't speed across the dam, though.
I feel strongly that this thread should've been called "Dam Roads." :bigass:
Most examples of this in Wisconsin are small impoundments with minor, local roads. One large example, though is in Oneida County where CTH D rides atop the dam on the Wisconsin River holding back the Rainbow Flowage.
The other large one I can recall is also in Oneida County. CTH Y crossing the dam for the Willow Flowage; a large reservoir on the Tomahawk River.
A small reservoir, but it is noteworthy because it carries WI 112; a dam on the White River south of Ashland might be (if I've racked my brain sufficiently) the only one in the state to help a numbered highway cross the stream it dams.
"Flowage" is a very Wisconsin term. It's the same thing as a reservoir; a large lake formed when humans dammed a river. But you really only see that word here. (Firefox thinks I was trying to spell "stowage".) We probably have the Wisconsin Valley Improvement Company to thank for that as many of their projects from the 1920's and 30's have lakes that are named flowages.
Quote from: triplemultiplex on September 30, 2020, 03:33:37 PM
I feel strongly that this thread should've been called "Dam Roads." :bigass:
Reminds me of this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBQ-vW6rz_Y&feature=youtu.be&t=10).
Robert Eastman Rd. goes atop the Clarence Brown reservoir dam in Springfield, Ohio. https://goo.gl/maps/7UJ7U7qXVyswBm4r9
MT Hwy 24 south of Glasgow, MT crosses Fort Peck Dam: https://goo.gl/maps/wKwHQYYD8DewVgM79 (https://goo.gl/maps/wKwHQYYD8DewVgM79)
LA 15 crosses over several dams where the Red River meets the Mississippi:
https://www.google.com/maps/@31.061822,-91.6486296,16135m/data=!3m1!1e3
horsetooth reservoir near fort collins, co has a county road that goes over all the dams... want to say its '23E' but i might be wrong..
Just found another one when looking for some cool routes to clinch, so apologies for bumping a not too old thread.
NM 539 on Navajo Dam (https://www.google.com/maps/@36.8023226,-107.6105887,3a,75y,56.04h,79.93t/data=!3m10!1e1!3m8!1sIs8tlWwQo5huMghMb0Qirg!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DIs8tlWwQo5huMghMb0Qirg%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D275.18338%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656!9m2!1b1!2i38)
Chris
Quote from: jayhawkco on February 26, 2021, 07:48:32 PM
Just found another one when looking for some cool routes to clinch, so apologies for bumping a not too old thread.
NM 539 on Navajo Dam (https://www.google.com/maps/@36.8023226,-107.6105887,3a,75y,56.04h,79.93t/data=!3m10!1e1!3m8!1sIs8tlWwQo5huMghMb0Qirg!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DIs8tlWwQo5huMghMb0Qirg%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D275.18338%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656!9m2!1b1!2i38)
Have you done
NM-526 (https://goo.gl/maps/352caxdv1tZ12ps68) at Lake Maloya?
Quote from: kphoger on February 26, 2021, 08:36:36 PM
Quote from: jayhawkco on February 26, 2021, 07:48:32 PM
Just found another one when looking for some cool routes to clinch, so apologies for bumping a not too old thread.
NM 539 on Navajo Dam (https://www.google.com/maps/@36.8023226,-107.6105887,3a,75y,56.04h,79.93t/data=!3m10!1e1!3m8!1sIs8tlWwQo5huMghMb0Qirg!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DIs8tlWwQo5huMghMb0Qirg%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D275.18338%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656!9m2!1b1!2i38)
Have you done NM-526 (https://goo.gl/maps/352caxdv1tZ12ps68) at Lake Maloya?
Not yet. I missed it last time I was down that direction. Since I'm 95% clinched inn Colorado, I'm going to have to expand my horizons soon. I love that part of New Mexico. I was actually looking at some cabins around that neck of the woods earlier today.
Chris
I drove Pardee Dam Road yesterday. Said road actually crosses a spillway and the main dam structure.
https://www.flickr.com/gp/151828809@N08/G456Chh140
https://www.gribblenation.org/2022/08/pardee-dam-road.html?m=1
CR 629 over the Round Valley Reservoir dam near Lebanon, NJ is a historic case of one. Right now, the earthen dam is undergoing reconstruction so the road is closed off at both ends. I did read on another discussion forum that the state is looking to permanently close it to cars and only allow pedestrians, cyclists, and emergency vehicles. One of the reasons cited is "Muh terrists" but it also looks like the Lebanon borough mayor is liking the reduced car traffic through town. The two main ways north of the reservoir (part of a state park) is either CR 629 which dumps you onto narrow streets of the borough or CR 621 directly to US 22.
I don't believe anyone's mentioned Nacimiento Lake Dr (county route G14) near Paso Robles, CA, which runs atop the Nacimiento Dam.