Projects - Infrastructures
Trails and Paths: Pedestrian Bridges

Basalt-Willits Trail Bridge
Basalt, Colorado

LORIS worked with the Town of Basalt to construct 1,360 linear feet of trail to serve as a regional connector. The critical piece of this trail is a two-span, 335-ft.-long truss structure over the Roaring Fork River that was created by using four segments of Aspen's former Maroon Creek Pedestrian Bridge. LORIS verified all of the structural member sizes and then developed a two-span configuration to best meet conditions at this site. We needed to change the structural system from one with expansion joints at the tower to a continuous span system. The design was further complicated because the secondary effects of connection eccentricities were not previously accounted for.

Client:  Town of Basalt