The current pontoon bridge was constructed by the North Carolina Department of Transportation in 1961.

Pontoon bridge sunset beach. Since most of Sunset Beach and the adjoining Bird Island coastal reserve encompass a barrier island the only way to get there from the mainland is by crossing a pontoon bridge swing bridge straddling the Intracoastal Waterway and adjacent marshland. This change affects many including those who live on the island as well as visitors and boaters along the Intracoastal Waterway but it most especially affects the former bridge tenders. To residents the bridge.

11 2010 also was the last day of public operation of the old Sunset Beach pontoon bridge. A one-lane wooden bridge that rose and fell with the tide and floated on pontoons was the only way to travel between the mainland and the island of Sunset Beach NC up until 2010 when a permanent bridge was opened. While a bittersweet moment for those who love the quaintness of the pontoon bridge everyone is excited to see the new two-lane infrastructure in place.

Motoring through the Sunset Beach Pontoon Bridge November 2009. But in early October 2010 the Sunset Beach council members voted on the matter again and elected to save only the bridge tenders house. The Sunset Beach NC Pontoon Bridge Until early October 2010 Sunset Beach will have the last pontoon bridge crossing the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway.

The old bridge was a wooden one lane pontoon bridge. I recently stood next to a small boy and his father on one side of the bridge and listened to him ask. They replaced the pontoon.

Manon Gore the developer of Sunset Beach built the bridge and in the old days you had to honk your horn twice outside of his nearby house for him to come open the bridge. Use them in commercial designs under lifetime perpetual. It allowed people to drive vehicles to and from the natural barrier island of Sunset Beach to the mainland.

Download all free or royalty-free photos and vectors. Sunset Beach North Carolina NC US. Even those who championed the new bridge seeing it as a necessity will have a place in their hearts for the old bridge and its memories it signifies.