Devils Elbow Bridge

My grandfather was Robert Eugene Dodds. He lived down here by the elbow in life, and every time I saw him we went swimming here. He painted so many beautiful paintings of this bridge. Me, my father, and his father before him all swam here consistently. My brother leapt from the bridge and dove in during high tide. My sister collected shells for her art. I spread my grandfather's ashes here. This bridge is full of memories. And for those memories, I give this bridge 5 stars. To remember my grandfather.

Route 66 iconic bridge over the Big Piney River. Beautiful drive. Go at Christmas 🎄 and see the lights over the river.

We are super fans of the old US Highways and try to travel them as much as possible. The Devil’s Elbow Bridge on Route 66 is one of the type of things we really enjoy seeing. This bridge is part of the original route, dates to 1923 and is just great. We really enjoyed driving on it and examining the structure.

Stopped here while on vacation. I had lived there for about a year when I was a child, and my father had just retired from Fort Leonard Wood. I was very excited to revisit here!! It is on Route 66. I spoke to a very pleasant lady, who was born there.

This was a fun little place to stop and explore briefly on Route 66. Devil's Elbow Bridge is on Route 66. It crosses the Big Piney River and opened in 1923. It carried Route 66 traffic from 1926-1945. In 1922, it was the first major highway project on the direct route from St Louis to Springfield. The town of Devil's Elbow is right over the bridge. The bridge has a span of 588 ft, and the deck width is 19.4 ft.

Very historic bridge. It's scenic any time of year, but it is absolutely breathtaking in the fall. I briefly lamented over the fact that there was nowhere convenient to pull over and take pictures of the bridge and/or river, but it's usually fine to stop on the bridge and take pictures since there isn't usually much traffic around it.

Again poorly signposted! Don't the US States where Route66 runs through have any pride in the "Mother Road" to promote such iconic symbols of US achievements? For info, there is NO access to the river as now private and access is closed off by a gate and lock. We parked near the Fire Engine in the pic and walked. STAY SAFE

A nice area to stop and take in some scenery. The restaurant was unfortunately closed, but the beauty of the river and rock formations were well worth the stop. Lots of big birds in the area, too. There's no real parking to speak of, but you can go down the road a bit and walk back to the area. There's a pulloff up the road a ways just past the rock wall where you can park and walk back to get some great distance views of the area. There are Pokestops here, don't remember if there was a gym.