Fort Denaud Bridge

The Fort Denaud Bridge is a historic swing bridge located in Fort Denaud, Florida, a small community in Hendry County between Alva and LaBelle. The bridge crosses the Caloosahatchee River and is one of three vehicle swing bridges in Southwest Florida along with the Blackburn Point Bridge in Osprey and the Boca Grande Causeway.

Fort Denaud Bridge
Coordinates	26.744638°N 81.510457°W / 26.744638; -81.510457
Carries	CR 78A (Fort Denaud Bridge Way)
Crosses	Caloosahatchee River
Locale	Fort Denaud, Florida
Owner	Hendry County
Maintained by	Hendry County
ID number	070013
Characteristics
Design	Swing bridge
Material	Steel
Trough construction	Steel
Pier construction	Concrete
Total length	434.7 ft (132 m)
Clearance below	8.9 ft (3 m)
No. of lanes	2
History
Opened	1963
Statistics
Toll	None
Location

The bridge was built in 1963 to replace a bridge located a short distance upstream that had been condemned and demolished in the early 1960s.^[1]

The bridge is 434.7 feet long from end to end and has a vertical clearance of 8.9 feet over the river.^[2]

Swing open for vessel traffic

References

1. "History of the Fort Denaud Bridge". Hendry County, Florida. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
2. "FORT DENAUD BR WAY over CALOOSAHATCHEE RIVER". National Bridge Inventory data. Retrieved 12 April 2019.