1906 BNSF/Great Northern Bridge over Skagit River at Mt. Vernon, WA

(Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter; no Historic Bridges; Satellite)

The Skagit River has suffered record flooding in Dec 2025. I've seen videos of a temporary flood wall that Mt. Vernon installed along the river next to their downtown.

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Daniel Curtis, May 2016

The sandbar and grass on the north side of the river is under water.

Satellite

It looks like even the road is way under the water.

Street View, Sep 2021

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Photo by Rich Murphy via ArchivedBridgeHunter, License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC)
The swing span has been fixed since 1965.