While Florida has lots of high bridges and a few cantilever and cable-stayed ones, the state only boasts one highway suspension bridge. The bridge believe it or not is over the Suwannee River near Luraville (in Lafayette County) and boasts a span that is much shorter than any of the cable-stayed or cantilever ones in the state. Then why was the Hal W. Adams built with a suspension span?

Built in 1947 the bridge is a rare short-span suspension bridge. The reason why the bridge design was chosen was that it was difficult with the rockbed of the river at this particular point to build a traditional road bridge similar to the ones the cross the Suwannee at just about every other point.

The Hal. W. Adams Bridge represents a visually pleasing and structurally significant design and is also in a part of the state folks rarely visit. Crossing the Suwannee it gives one of Florida’s mighty rivers a signature bridge.

Because of this the Hal W. Adams Bridge is a unique Florida landmark albeit one well of the beaten path in one of the most sparsely populated portions of the state.