Bridge For Sale, Maybe

 Here's the bridge.  It crosses Campbell Creek near 56th and 57th Avenues.  

The trail to the bridge is being eroded by the creek.  If you're biking, you've come from the Arctic Roadrunner on Old Seward Highway, and gotten to an 'offramp' to 56th Avenue to the right as you ride to the left.  There's a spot where the creek is eroding the earth right next to the trail.  Then you come to a curve with a bench and get to this point where it says, "Sidewalk Closed."  

Well it's been closed a few times this year as heavy equipment has been making a new path to a spot across the bridge and to the right, where a new bridge will take the place of this old bridge.   

Below is a view from the cutoff on the north side.  The trail to the right is an exit to 56th (and Fairbanks).  To the left you can see the old bridge.  And straight ahead is the new bridge being put in place this summer.  The current trail curves around to the left (about where I'm taking the picture), past the erosion point (see below) and on to Taku Lake and beyond.  

                                                                                         Here's the detour map they've put up on the trail when the bridge was closed off.  It shows better where exactly this is.
The street to the north (above) is International Airport Road.  To the south is Dowling.  To the right is Old Seward.  I added the yellow circle so you could see just where these bridges are.  

NB = New Bridge;  OB = Old Bridge   The red line is the bike trail which follows along the creek.  [As I'm proofing this before posting, I see the white line for the new bridge is too long.  It just crosses the creek and doesn't go all the way to the trail as you'll see in pictures below.]

This was back on May 27, 2025 when they were clearing brush and just starting this year's work on the bridge.  From the south side.

Below is from the south again on June 23, 2025. 

And here's the bridge from the south on July 2, 2025.  Well, you can see the ramp up to the bridge.  The truck is blocking the view of the bridge itself.

Below is the bridge from the north on June 24, 2025

And then the same view on July 2, 2025, with the ramp in place.  

Below is where the creek is eroding the trail.  They added the sandbags recently.

And this is the old bridge from the south side.  Straight ahead is the bench I mentioned, though it's hard to see in the picture.  

I've been on this trail once or twice a week since late March/early /April (the snow and ice were gone early this year.)

There are a couple of guys there whose job is to deal with bikes and pedestrians when the bridge is blocked or when vehicles are crossing the trail.  

I asked, early on, what happens to the old bridge.  I was told it would be scrapped.  

So I'm posting this now, just in case anyone can use this old bridge somewhere.  Now would be the time to contact the Municipality and inquire about whether you can take the bridge, or buy it, and what it would take to do that.  Perhaps trying to move it would damage it.  But they moved the London Bridge to Arizona, so I would expect this would be a much easier job.