If you’ve never walked on what is now a pedestrian and bicycle trail on the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge that connects Madison, Ill., over the Mississippi River to St. Louis, these two videos by the same person should suffice for now. The bridge was a part of Route 66 for decades.
The second video shows the water intake towers in the middle of the river that the City of St. Louis used. It also shows the natural chain of rocks in the river that prevented many a barge from using the river during certain times of the year until a nearby Chain of Rocks Canal was built in the 1950s.
On the other side of the old bridge is the new Chain of Rocks Bridge, which is Interstate 270.
And, yes, it gets very windy in the middle of the old bridge.
Cool video. Next best thing to being there.
Why did they bother calling the I-270 bridge Chain of Rocks? It’s just another generic superslab bridge.