Deception Pass

You can't see everything and go everywhere when you are on holiday, and I would have missed this marvelous view of Deception Pass and its bridge on... more

by Joan Carroll

Title

Deception Pass

Artist

Joan Carroll

Medium

Photograph - Digital Photograph

Description

You can't see everything and go everywhere when you are on holiday, and I would have missed this marvelous view of Deception Pass and its bridge on Whidbey Island WA if it hadn't been specifically recommended to me during my trip to the Pacific Northwest. The bridge is a commonly photographed landmark of the Puget Sound region. So much so that on a gorgeous Sunday afternoon, there were traffic jams around the limited parking available on both sides of the bridge! The Deception Pass Bridge is a two-lane bridge on Washington State Route 20 connecting Whidbey Island to Fidalgo Island. The bridge is actually two spans, one over Canoe Pass to the north, and another over Deception Pass to the south. Construction began in August 1934, and the completed bridge was dedicated at noon on July 31, 1935. The Wallace Bridge and Structural Co. of Seattle, Washington provided 460 tons of steel for the 511-foot Canoe Pass arch and 1130 tons for the 976-foot Deception Pass span. The cost of the New Deal-era construction was $482,000, made possible through the Public Works Administration and county funds. In 1982, the bridge was listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Fun fact It cost more to paint the spans in 1983 than to build them in 1935. Deception Pass itself is a strait separating Whidbey Island from Fidalgo Island, It connects Skagit Bay, part of Puget Sound, with the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

FEATURED PHOTO, Premium FAA Artists group,9/10/14

FEATURED PHOTO, Artists Best Five Artwork Group ABFA Group, 8/22/14

FEATURED PHOTO, The World We See group, 7/2/14

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July 2nd, 2014