is the Most Messy. It’s huge and complexly linked to the highway system.
Ross Island Rolls over the River. It’s also right by the island, and it’s the last one to the south that you can see. 18 months ago

is hunter green. It has hoists and huddles home-like over the Hudson. Okay, so it’s the Willamette, but that’s what I keep thinking.

(My previous entry on Hawthorne mistook Marquam for Hawthorne. Oops.) 19 months ago

is Modern. It looks just like Burnside except it’s more modern: shinier, more metal and less stone. 19 months ago

is Beautiful. It’s stone with little towers, by far the most romantic of the bridges. I especially love it in morning fog. 19 months ago

Now that I have one bridge down for sure, I can try and extend my knowledge.

Freemont Freely Flies over the Freeway. (You can only go over it in a car on the highway and it has a big picturesque yet modern arch. It’s also light turquoise). It is north of the Broadway Bridge, Brown and Bumpy.

The Steel Bridge is very industrial looking: huge black iron girders and tall towers kind of like London Bridge (yet more evidence that Portland is like London). The Steel Bridge is also the bridge that the busses and trains take, also very industrial. The Steel Bridge is South of the Broadway Bridge Brown and Bumpy.

That’s enough for today. I want to have them solidly and not get confused. 19 months ago

Thanks to a road sign, I am now confident of which is the Broadway Bridge. It’s ugly utilitarian brown and has a lot of short arches. 20 months ago

18 altogether, listed by river and area, all north to south/west to east.

Over the Willamette:

North Portland:
Sauvie Island Bridge
St. Johns Bridge
Burnlington Northern Railroad Bridge 5.1

Downtown
Fremont Bridge
Broadway Bridge
Steel Bridge
Burnside Bridge
Morrison Bridge
Hawthorne Bridge
Marquam Bridge
Ross Island Bridge

Southeast
Sellwood Bridge
Union Pacific Railroad Bridge

Oregon City
Abernethy Bridge
Oregon City Bridge

Over the Columbia:
Burnlington Northern Railroad Bridge 9.6
Interstate Bridge
Glenn Jackson Bridge

Now to match the names with the pictures (and sometimes the internet pictures are labeled wrong, which is why I stared with a map) and possibly have a date with Euler to figure out if they all can be crossed contiguously. Too bad I missed BridgePedal to try it for myself. 20 months ago