Falls Road Bridge over Gunpowder Falls

Falls Road is a 2-lane rural arterial in northern Baltimore County, passing through the Gunpowder Falls State Park and connecting the communities of Mount Carmel and Parkton. The road was carried over the Gunpowder Falls on a 70-foot long single span truss bridge built in 1884 by the Pittsburgh Bridge Company. Due to inadequate load capacity and substantial deterioration of the superstructure, by the early 1990s the bridge could no longer carry the required loads, and had to be closed.

We designed a replacement bridge with a truss structure similar to that of the original bridge, utilizing the original abutments. This maintained the existing waterway opening as well as the historic nature of the bridge in its rural setting.