Snake Creek Bridge

Snake Creek Bridge is a bascule bridge in the village of Islamorada in the Florida Keys. The single-leaf steel bascule bridge carries the Overseas Highway (U.S. 1) over Snake Creek, connecting Plantation Key and Windley Key. It is located near mile marker 86.

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Snake Creek Bridge
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Carries	US 1 (Overseas Highway)
Crosses	Snake Creek
Locale	Islamorada, Florida
Official name	Snake Creek Bridge
Maintained by	Florida Department of Transportation
Characteristics
Design	Bascule bridge
History
Opened	1981
Statistics
Toll	None
Location

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The bridge was completed in 1981 when a number of new bridges were being built to modernize the Overseas Highway.^[1] It is the third bridge that has existed at this location. The first bridge, which carried the Overseas Railroad, was built in the early 1900s. A second bridge built in the 1920s next to the railroad bridge carried the first Overseas Highway (State Road 4A), though the highway would later be shifted to railroad bridge in the 1940s, which was retrofitted for automobile use.^[2]

The Snake Creek Bridge is notable for being the only remaining drawbridge operating in the Florida Keys. It has held this distinction since 2008, after the replacement of the original Jewfish Creek Bridge with its current high-span bridge, and the closure and abandonment of the Boot Key Harbor Bridge in Marathon.^[3][4][5][6]