Springfield Des Arc Bridge — Attraction in Arkansas

This is the original location of the Springfield Bridge, an historic and unique wrought iron bowstring arch bridge, that stood here since 1874. It is the oldest bridge in Arkansas and the second oldest of its type in the United States. It was bypassed with a concrete and steel bridge in 1989 and around that time placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

For many years the bridge had been susceptible to vandalism and threatened by the deterioration of conditions along the banks of Cadron Creek. In an effort to preserve the structure, in late 2016 the bridge was dismantled and moved to Beaver Fork Lake near Conway a few miles south of this location. Despite prompting, Google Maps has not yet made the correction in the...

I take my one-and-a-half-year-old grandson he loves it there and I have a park and a lot of parking lots basically it is a nice place to take your family I haven't swam there because I have a lot of disabilities and my new system is very low and as far as swimming that I have not done in very many years it was very fun when I was able to go the water was nice pretty they just have too many ducks but that's we're taking your grandchildren to watch the...

Originally an iron bowstring truss bridge over Cadron Creek (rural Faulkner County, Arkansas), made in 1871.

Locals say they would often hear a ghostly baby crying, a girl screaming, and other strange noises while the bridge was in it's original location. It has since been relocated to the South near Greenbrier, but the orbs & oddities on the bridge are still...