Friday, February 20, 2026

1936+2013 MO-5 Hurricane Deck Bridges ov Lake of the Ozarks near Greenview, MO

1936: (Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter; no Historic Bridges)
2013: (Satellite)

The Lake of the Ozark was created by the Bagnell Dam.

Bridges Now and Then posted
Hurricane Deck Bridge over the Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri, 1952. (HipPostcard)

Missouri State Archives via BridgeHunter

2010 photo by Joe Sonderman via BridgeHunter

2010 photo by Joe Sonderman via BridgeHunter

"This bridge was the 1936 Class B First Place Winner for the AISC Most Beautiful Steel Bridge." [ArchivedBridgeHunter]

The replacement bridge is not going to win any awards. It looks like the approach spans used concrete girders, and the main spans used steel girders.
Street View, Jun 2023

An answer to the question concerning the origin of the name Hurricane Deck.
HURRICANE DECK is a nautical term associated with river steamboats. The hurricane deck was the uppermost deck. It provided a pleasant, breezy place to watch the passing scenery.
Steamboats plied the Osage River through much of the nineteenth century. Crewmen on these steamers named many of the prominent landmarks along the way. A certain long, flat ridge along the left (descending) bank of the river caught the attention of the steamboatmen. They came to call it the "hurricane deck" because it afforded quite a view of the river, and the wind always seemed to blow there.
Hurricane Deck ridge runs along the east side of Porter Mill Bend, between mile markers 37 and 38. Lake Road 5-36 follows the crest of the ridge.
[bkoenen267 comment on ArchivedBridgeHunter]

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