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If you follow the Allegheny River Trail all the way up to Emlenton you can get hydrated at Otto's bar and then ride back. It makes for a nice day's ride. On the way to Otto's I had to dismount one place going through the disputed area of rocky/muddy trail. On the way back with the help of Otto's courage hydration I didn't even slow down.

 

I think I have seen someone on my computer named Otto Download.

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6 minutes ago, Longjohn said:

If you follow the Allegheny River Trail all the way up to Emlenton you can get hydrated at Otto's bar and then ride back. It makes for a nice day's ride. On the way to Otto's I had to dismount one place going through the disputed area of rocky/muddy trail. On the way back with the help of Otto's courage hydration I didn't even slow down.

 

I think I have seen someone on my computer named Otto Download.

Emlenton is the middle of fricken' nowhere!

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12 hours ago, Kzoo said:

Where my dad grew up.

Wow, you are inextricably linked to the area.  Cool!  Did you see the very high Emlenton Bridge being built?  Oh, 1968.  I thought it was a decade or so later.  I guess we just heard aboot it a lot in the 70s.

The Emlenton Bridge is a steel-deck truss bridge that spans the Allegheny River just south of the town of Emlenton, Pennsylvania, United States at approximately mile marker 44.4 on I-80. With a height of 270 feet (82 m) above the river, the Emlenton Bridge was the highest bridge in the Interstate Highway System when completed in 1968 (The Lewiston-Queenston Bridge is higher but is technically an international bridge, not part of the Interstate Highway system). This record was held until 1971 with the opening of the Fred G. Redmon Bridge near Selah, Washington.

The Emlenton Bridge remains the highest road bridge in Pennsylvania; with an overall span of 1,668 feet (508 m) it was the largest bridge constructed as part of the Keystone Shortway project. With the completion of the Interstate System, it is likely that the Emlenton Bridge will remain the fifth-highest bridge in the system for a significant time, behind the Glade Creek Bridge in West Virginia, the Pine Valley Creek Bridge in California, the Galena Creek Bridge in Nevada, and the aforementioned Redmon Bridge.

The bridge was designed by the consultant Buchart-Horn led by Ted Andrzejewski, an acquaintance of the noted bridge engineer Ralph Modjeski. The contractor of record is Brodhead Construction located in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania.[1]

An interesting fact about the Emlenton Bridge is that due to its size, and geography of the land, is actually located in three different Pennsylvania counties. One side of the bridge is in Venango County, the other in Clarion County, but the southwest abutment resides in Butler County.

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