List of crossings of the Connecticut River

This is a list of bridges and other crossings of the Connecticut River from its mouth at Long Island Sound upstream to its source at the Connecticut Lakes. The list includes current road and rail crossings, as well as ferries carrying a state highway across the river. Some pedestrian bridges and abandoned bridges are also listed.

Crossings

Crossing	Carries	Location	Built	Coordinates	Image
Connecticut
Amtrak Old Saybrook–Old Lyme Bridge	Amtrak Northeast Corridor	Old Saybrook and Old Lyme	1907	41°18′39″N 72°20′57″W
Raymond E. Baldwin Bridge	I-95 / US 1		1948, 1993	41°19′09″N 72°20′51″W
Chester–Hadlyme Ferry	Route 148	Chester and Lyme	1769	41°25′11″N 72°25′50″W
East Haddam Bridge	Route 82	Haddam and East Haddam	1913	41°27′05″N 72°27′52″W
Providence and Worcester railroad bridge		Middletown and Portland		41°34′00″N 72°38′52″W
Arrigoni Bridge	Route 17 / Route 66		1938	41°34′09″N 72°38′55″W
Rocky Hill – Glastonbury Ferry	Route 160	Rocky Hill and Glastonbury	1655	41°39′57″N 72°37′40″W
William H. Putnam Memorial Bridge	Route 3	Wethersfield and Glastonbury	1959	41°42′51″N 72°38′27″W
Charter Oak Bridge	US 5 / Route 15	Hartford and East Hartford	1942, 1991	41°45′11″N 72°39′18″W
Founders Bridge	Route 2		1958	41°45′56″N 72°39′55″W
Morgan G. Bulkeley Bridge	I-84 / US 6 / US 44		1908 (widened 1964)	41°46′09″N 72°39′54″W
Connecticut Southern railroad bridge			c. 1873	41°46′35″N 72°39′27″W
Captain John Bissell Memorial Bridge	I-291 and pedestrian/bike path	Windsor and South Windsor	1957	41°48′47″N 72°38′40″W
Dexter Coffin Bridge	I-91	Windsor Locks and East Windsor	1959	41°55′00″N 72°37′22″W
Bridge Street Bridge	Route 140		1992	41°55′45″N 72°37′27″W
Warehouse Point railroad bridge	Amtrak New Haven – Springfield Line	Suffield and Enfield	1903	41°56′36″N 72°36′50″W
Enfield–Suffield Covered Bridge (destroyed 1900)			1832	41°58′30.34″N 72°36′22.31″W
Enfield–Suffield Veterans Bridge	Route 190		1966	41°59′23″N 72°36′13″W
Suffield and Thompsonville Bridge (demolished 1971)			1893	41°59′57″N 72°36′25.56″W
Massachusetts
Julia B. Buxton Bridge (South End Bridge)	US 5	Agawam and Springfield	1954	42°04′53″N 72°34′58″W
Memorial Bridge	Route 147	West Springfield and Springfield	1922	42°05′56″N 72°35′42″W
Old Toll Bridge (demolished)			1816	42°5′59.68″N 72°35′46.47″W
	CSX Berkshire Subdivision		1873	42°06′05″N 72°35′57″W
Arthur J. McKenna Bridge (North End Bridge)	US 20		1924	42°06′31″N 72°36′51″W
I-91 bridge	I-91	West Springfield and Chicopee	1966	42°08′07″N 72°36′55″W
Chicopee – West Springfield Bridge (demolished 1987)				42°8′38.39″N 72°37′7.11″W
Massachusetts Turnpike bridge	I-90		1957	42°09′14″N 72°37′40″W
Jones Ferry		Holyoke and Chicopee		42°10′18″N 72°37′43″W
I-391 bridge	I-391		1979	42°11′24″N 72°36′36″W
Willimansett Bridge	Route 116 / Route 141		1891, 2015	42°11′42″N 72°36′05″W
	Connecticut River Line			42°11′43″N 72°36′02″W
Vietnam Memorial Bridge	Route 116	Holyoke and South Hadley	1990	42°12′42″N 72°35′46″W
Joseph E. Muller Bridge	US 202		1958	42°12′58″N 72°36′28″W
Northampton Toll Bridge		Northampton and Hadley	1808	42°20′11″N 72°37′04″W
Calvin Coolidge Bridge	Route 9		1937	42°20′11″N 72°37′04″W
Norwottuck Rail Trail Bridge	Norwottuck Rail Trail		1887	42°20′14″N 72°37′07″W
Hatfield Bridge (dismantled 1823)		Hatfield and Hadley	1807	42°21′55.44″N 72°35′21.65″W
Sunderland Bridge	Route 116	Deerfield and Sunderland	1937	42°28′03″N 72°35′06″W
Deerfield–Montague railroad bridge	Fitchburg Route	Deerfield and Montague		42°33′44″N 72°33′22″W
Canalside Rail Trail Bridge		Deerfield and Montague	c. 1880, 1936	42°34′45.30″N 72°34′29.53″W
Montague City Covered Bridge (destroyed 1936)		Greenfield and Montague		42°34′49.1″N 72°34′44.9″W (approx.)
Montague trolley bridge (destroyed 1936)				42°34′49.1″N 72°34′45.9″W (approx.)
General Pierce Bridge			1947	42°34′49″N 72°34′47″W
Turners Falls Road Bridge			1936	42°36′33″N 72°33′41″W
Gill–Montague Bridge		Gill and Montague	1937	42°36′40″N 72°33′11″W
French King Bridge	Route 2	Gill and Erving	1931	42°35′52″N 72°29′48″W
Bennett's Meadow Bridge	Route 10	Northfield	1969	42°41′00″N 72°28′18″W
Railroad bridge	New England Central Railroad		1903	42°42′22.40″N 72°27′33″W
Schell Bridge (closed)			1903	42°42′44″N 72°27′12″W
Vermont – New Hampshire
Rail bridge (demolished)	Boston and Maine Railroad Fort Hill Branch (former)	Vernon and Hinsdale	1913	42.737098°N 72.462587°W / 42.737098; -72.462587 (Fort Hill Branch bridge)
Rail bridge (partially demolished)	Boston and Maine Railroad Cheshire Branch (former)	Brattleboro and Hinsdale		42°50′16.38″N 72°32′46.21″W
General John Stark Memorial Bridge	VT 119 NH 119		Under construction, expected to finish 2024[1]	42.85009°N 72.55185°W / 42.85009; -72.55185 (General John Stark Memorial Bridge)
Charles Dana Bridge and the Anna Hunt Marsh Bridge	VT 119 NH 119		1920	42°51′05″N 72°33′10″W
United States Navy Seabees Bridge	VT 9 NH 9	Brattleboro and Chesterfield	2003	42°53′02″N 72°33′07″W
Route 123 bridge	VT 123 NH 123	Westminster and Walpole	1910	43°05′04″N 72°26′00″W
Vilas Bridge (closed)		Bellows Falls and North Walpole	1930	43°08′07″N 72°26′25″W
Stone Arch Bridge	Vermont Rail (Green Mountain)			43°08′09″N 72°26′25″W
New England Central railroad bridge				43°08′17″N 72°26′48″W
Arch Bridge			1984	43°08′17″N 72°26′54″W
Cheshire Bridge	VT 11 NH 11	Springfield and Charlestown	1806,1906,1930	43°15′37″N 72°25′38″W
Route 12 bridge	VT 12 NH 12	Ascutney and Claremont	1969	43°24′11″N 72°24′01″W
New England Central railroad bridge		Windsor and Cornish		43°28′11″N 72°23′19″W
Cornish–Windsor Covered Bridge			1866	43°28′25″N 72°23′01″W
I-89 bridge	I-89	Hartford and Lebanon	1966	43°38′03″N 72°19′43″W
Railroad bridge		White River Junction and West Lebanon		43°38′49″N 72°18′48″W
Lyman Bridge	US 4		1936, 2015	43°39′02″N 72°18′51″W
Ledyard Bridge	VT 10A NH 10A	Norwich and Hanover	1998	43°42′13″N 72°17′59″W
Lyme–East Thetford Bridge	VT 113 East Thetford Road	East Thetford and Lyme	1937	43°48′43″N 72°10′59″W
Morey Memorial Bridge	VT 25A NH 25A	Fairlee and Orford	1937	43°54′25″N 72°08′22″W
Piermont Bridge	VT 25 NH 25	Bradford and Piermont	1929	43°58′40″N 72°06′43″W
Bedell Covered Bridge (destroyed by wind, 1979)		South Newbury and Haverhill	1805, 1823, 1862, 1866, 1979	44°02′43″N 72°04′27″W
Newbury Crossing Road		Newbury and Haverhill	1970	44°03′58″N 72°03′05″W
Ranger Bridge	US 302	Wells River and Woodsville	1917, 1923	44°09′14″N 72°02′27″W
Wells River Bridge (closed)	Boston and Maine Corporation (railroad, upper level), road (lower level, until 1917)		1805, 1853, 1903	44°09′15″N 72°02′26″W
Frazier Road bridge		McIndoe Falls and Monroe	1937	44°15′42″N 72°03′32″W
Barnet Road bridge		Barnet and Monroe	1930	44°17′13″N 72°03′25″W
I-93 bridge	I-93	Waterford and Littleton	1976, 1981	44°20′34″N 71°53′27″W
Route 18 bridge	VT 18 NH 18		1934	44°20′33″N 71°53′20″W
Whitcomb Bridge		Gilman and Dalton	1997	44°24′39″N 71°43′23″W
old Whitcomb Bridge	pedestrian traffic only		1928	44°24′40.34″N 71°43′21.45″W
Twin State railroad bridge		South Lunenburg and Dalton	1928	44°25′38″N 71°40′35″W
Mount Orne Covered Bridge		Lunenburg and South Lancaster	1911	44°27′36″N 71°39′10″W
Rogers' Rangers Bridge[2]	US 2	Guildhall and Lancaster	2020	44°29′46″N 71°35′39″W
Guildhall Road		Guildhall and Northumberland	1984	44°33′51″N 71°33′31″W
Janice Peaslee Bridge		Maidstone and Stratford	1893, 2005	44°39′6.69″N 71°33′45″W
St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad bridge		Bloomfield and North Stratford		44°45′08″N 71°37′52″W
Route 105 bridge	VT 105		1947	44°45′09″N 71°37′50″W
Columbia Bridge		Lemington and Columbia	1912	44°51′11″N 71°33′05″W
Route 26 bridge	VT 26 NH 26	Lemington and Colebrook	1953	44°53′56″N 71°30′27″W
Route 114 bridge	VT 114 Main Street	Canaan and West Stewartstown	1990	44°59′45″N 71°32′05″W
Railroad bridge (former)	Baltimore truss bridge, once used by Maine Central Railroad and North Stratford Railroad; now used by hikers and snowmobilers.[3][4][5]		c. 1903[6]	44°59′59.2″N 71°31′45.4″W
Canaan–Stewartstown Bridge		Beecher Falls and Stewartstown	1930	45°00′28″N 71°30′27″W
New Hampshire
Route 3 bridge	US 3	Pittsburg and Clarksville	1931	45°01′15″N 71°27′50″W
Pittsburg–Clarksville Covered Bridge (closed 1981)			c. 1876	45°03′16″N 71°24′25″W
Route 145 bridge	NH 145		2006[7]	45°02′57″N 71°23′29″W
Murphy Dam Road	unpaved access road		1938[8]	45°02′56.5″N 71°22′57.5″W
Forest Access Road	logging traffic	Pittsburg		45°04′22″N 71°18′08″W
Magalloway Road	logging traffic			45°07′05″N 71°12′31″W
Scott Brook Road	logging traffic			45°10′54″N 71°10′38″W
Route 3 bridge	US 3		1961	45°11′23″N 71°11′24″W

References

1. Rinker, James (21 June 2024). "On track to open in fall, new Hinsdale-Brattleboro bridge hits homestretch". The Keene Sentinal. Keene, New Hampshire: SentinelSource.com. Retrieved 5 September 2024.
2. "New Hampshire opens bridge linking state to Vermont". AP News. October 26, 2020.
3. "PHOTOS OF MEC/NSRC BRIDGE?". railroad.net. 2011. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
4. "The Canaan Dam, a 27-foot hydroelectric dam and adjoining railroad bridge spanning the Connecticut River between Stewartstown, New Hampshire, and Canaan, Vermont, 373 miles from the river's mouth in Connecticut". Library of Congress. Retrieved June 30, 2020 – via loc.gov.
5. Gundersen, Bob (August 24, 2005). "Staggered truss bridge @ Canaan". Flickr. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
6. "Canaan". Essex County Herald. Island Pond, Vermont. January 9, 1903. p. 2. Retrieved June 30, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
7. "NH145 over CONNECTICUT RIVER". bridgereports.com. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
8. "MURPHY DAM ROAD over DAM SPILLWAY". bridgereports.com. Retrieved June 30, 2020.

Further reading

• Whittlesey, Charles W. (1938). Crossing and Re-Crossing the Connecticut River. New Haven, Connecticut: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company. LCC F12.C7 W4.

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