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El Paso County, CO

686 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 31.3% rated Good, 65.5% Fair, 3.2% Poor.

686
Public bridges
31.3%
Good condition
3.2%
Poor condition

The verdict

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.

El Paso County posts a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across large county bridge inventory.

Top 38%
lowest Poor share in state
3.2%
Poor-condition share
686
public highway bridges
1984
avg year built

Poor is an FHWA condition category from the lowest applicable component rating (4 or below), not a live crossing-safety or closure decision. Rankings cover counties with at least five public highway bridges.

El Paso County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, El Paso County ranks #24 of 64 Colorado counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 3.2%). El Paso County, Colorado contains 686 public highway bridges. Roughly 31.3% are rated “Good,” 65.5% “Fair,” and 3.2% “Poor.” Poor means the lowest applicable deck, superstructure, substructure, or culvert rating is 4 or below on the 0–9 NBI scale. It is a condition category, not a live safety or closure decision.

Responsible agencies inspect covered bridges on risk-based intervals under current NBIS rules and submit inventory data to FHWA annually. The list below shows every NBI-tracked bridge in the county. Use the “Sort by” controls to change the ordering, and click any row for its reported inspection date, traffic count, and condition fields.

Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory. See methodology for full definitions.

Total bridges

686

Public highway bridges in El Paso County

Good condition

31.3%

215 of 686 rated 7-9

Fair condition

65.5%

449 of 686 rated 5-6

Poor condition

3.2%

22 of 686 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#24 of 64

Among Colorado counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better

Condition distribution

Share of 686 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
31.3% (215)
Fair
65.5% (449)
Poor
3.2% (22)

El Paso County's Poor-condition bridges carry 190,132 vehicle crossings a day

That is 1.9% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 3.2% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 8,642 crossings a day against 16,541 for a Good-condition one. A Poor rating is a condition category, not a closure or a live safety judgement; it means the lowest applicable component rating is 4 or below.

Computed over the 686 of 686 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

33.2% of El Paso County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

228 of the 686 bridges with a recorded construction year were built in 1974 or earlier. Age alone is not a defect: a well-maintained older bridge can rate Good, and 31.3% of this county's inventory does. Even so, this older cohort is the population from which future Poor ratings are drawn, which is why the age profile below matters alongside the condition split above.

Cutoff derives from the 2024 release year minus a 50-year design life. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

One structure carries 15% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

I 25 ML SBND over ACADEMY BLVD, built 1971, carries 28,500 vehicles a day, the most of any Poor-rated structure here. The county's Poor-condition exposure is concentrated rather than evenly spread, so the 22-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 190,132 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

When El Paso County's bridges were built

686 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 2000s, when 117 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 17.1% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 15 to 24 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1984) matches the Colorado average (1982).

Source FHWA National Bridge Inventory (year built) As of 2024 NBI release

How El Paso County compares with Colorado's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Colorado counties nearest El Paso County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 3.2% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1984 against a peer-group mean of 1988 is in line with the group.

Showing the 5 closest of 63 Colorado counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for El Paso County and the 5 Colorado counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
El Paso County (this page) 686 3.2%
Weld County 614 4.7%
Larimer County 559 2%
Adams County 535 6.9%
Jefferson County 464 6.3%
Denver County 458 1.7%

Each share is of that county's own total tracked bridges; peers are the counties with 5 or more bridges whose inventory size is closest to El Paso County's. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Two NBI-derived peer sets for El Paso County, both outside Colorado so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside CO (686 bridges here).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside CO (1984 here).

Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.

All 686 Good 215 Fair 449 Poor 22

Good-condition bridges (215)

SB I25 ML

Good

Over: SB SH21 RAMP

SH21 AND I25 INT, El Paso, CO

Built 2021 Load: 44.1 t ADT: 66,000

CHEYENNE CANYON RD

Good

Over: NORTH CHEYENNE CREEK

1.4 MI W EVANS AVENUE, El Paso, CO

Built 2022 Load: 44.4 t ADT: 1,566

US 24-PLATTE AVE

Good

Over: SH 21-POWERS BLVD

PLATTE/POWERS-CO SPRINGS, El Paso, CO

Built 2000 Load: 44.4 t ADT: 40,000

NEVADA AVE NB

Good

Over: CS and E RR VAN BUREN C

0.2 MI S. OF FILLMORE ST, El Paso, CO

Built 1949 Load: 44.8 t ADT: 8,919

SH21B / POWERS

Good

Over: RESEARCH PARKWAY

1.2 MI N OF WOODMEN, El Paso, CO

Built 2022 Load: 45.4 t ADT: 50,000

NBND SH21B ML RAMP

Good

Over: PINE CREEK

NE COLORADO SPRINGS, El Paso, CO

Built 2005 Load: 45.4 t ADT: 18,500

SH 21B NBND ML

Good

Over: BRIARGATE BLVD

NB POWERS BLVD NE CO Sp., El Paso, CO

Built 2014 Load: 46.0 t ADT: 25,000

SH 21B SBND ML

Good

Over: BRIARGATE BLVD

S. BND. POWERS BLVD., El Paso, CO

Built 2014 Load: 46.0 t ADT: 25,000

I 25 ML

Good

Over: SH 29 ML

CIRCLE DR. S. COLO SPRS, El Paso, CO

Built 2000 Load: 46.2 t ADT: 77,000

WEST POLK STREET

Good

Over: MONUMENT CREEK

0.5 MI W OF CASCADE AVE, El Paso, CO

Built 1986 Load: 46.4 t ADT: 948

SH 105 ML

Good

Over: I 25 ML

MONUMENT INTERCHANGE, El Paso, CO

Built 2004 Load: 46.4 t ADT: 19,000

RAMP TO N GATE

Good

Over: NB SH 21 RAMP

SH21 AND I25 INT, El Paso, CO

Built 2021 Load: 47.0 t ADT: 1,200

RAMP TO UNION

Good

Over: TEMPLETON GAP FLOODWAY

AUSTIN BLUFFS PKWY/UNION, El Paso, CO

Built 2009 Load: 47.6 t ADT: 6,359

SB I25 ML

Good

Over: NB SH 21 RAMP

SH21 AND I25 INT, El Paso, CO

Built 2021 Load: 47.6 t ADT: 66,000

JACKSON CREEK

Good

Over: LEATHER CHAPS DR

.7MI E of JACKSON CR PKWY, El Paso, CO

Built 2019 Load: 48.0 t ADT: 3,367

CARLSON DRIVE

Good

Over: DRY CREEK

JUST S OF WOODMEN ROAD, El Paso, CO

Built 1986 Load: 48.6 t ADT: 399

I 25 ML SBND

Good

Over: PINE CREEK

1.4 MI N OF JCT I-25 BUS, El Paso, CO

Built 2002 Load: 49.7 t ADT: 58,000

OIL WELL ROAD

Good

Over: N. FORK HORSE CREEK

0.9 MI N OF FUNK ROAD, El Paso, CO

Built 2017 Load: 50.2 t ADT: 20

US 24 ML

Good

Over: DRAW

8.0 MI NE OF JCT SH 94, El Paso, CO

Built 1999 Load: 50.2 t ADT: 16,000

Willow Road

Good

Over: Monument Creek

0.35 Mi N of Baptist Rd, El Paso, CO

Built 2022 Load: 51.8 t ADT: 1,495

WAGEMAN DRIVE

Good

Over: FOUNTAIN MUTUAL DITCH

JUST N OF BRADLEY ROAD, El Paso, CO

Built 2001 Load: 52.9 t ADT: 1,034

GOLDEN LANE

Good

Over: FOUNTAIN CREEK

JUST WEST OF COLORADO AVE, El Paso, CO

Built 2018 Load: 53.1 t ADT: 209

I 25 ML NBND

Good

Over: MONUMENT CREEK BRANCH

4.6 MI N OF JCT SH 83 ML, El Paso, CO

Built 1953 Load: 54.5 t ADT: 46,000

BRADLEY ROAD

Good

Over: JIMMY CAMP CREEK

.33 MI E MARKSHEFFEL RD, El Paso, CO

Built 1999 Load: 56.3 t ADT: 2,812

I25 NB OFF_ON RAMP

Good

Over: CHEYENNE CREK

IN COLORADO SPRINGS, El Paso, CO

Built 2002 Load: 56.6 t ADT: 44,000

COUNTY ROAD 404

Good

Over: I 25 ML

2.6 MI N OF MONUMENT, El Paso, CO

Built 2021 Load: 58.3 t ADT: 3,100

I 25 SB ML

Good

Over: WILDLIFE UNDERPASS

1.8 MI N OF MONUMENT, El Paso, CO

Built 2020 Load: 58.3 t ADT: 67,000

CAPITAL DRIVE

Good

Over: EAST FORK SAND CREEK

JUST E OF RIVERWALK PKWY, El Paso, CO

Built 2003 Load: 60.5 t ADT: 1,234

BRIARGATE PARKWAY

Good

Over: I 25 ML

1.4 MI N OF SH 83 SPUR, El Paso, CO

Built 1987 Load: 61.2 t ADT: 13,577

RAMP TO SB ACADEMY

Good

Over: PARKING LOT EXIT

JUST S OF WOODMEN RD, El Paso, CO

Built 2012 Load: 61.5 t ADT: 4,629

MONUMENT HILL ROAD

Good

Over: WILDLIFE UNDERPASS RR

1.8 MI N OF MONUMENT, El Paso, CO

Built 2020 Load: 61.6 t ADT: 200

CURTIS ROAD

Good

Over: CHICO CREEK TRIBUTARY

2.25 MI N OF DRENNAN RD, El Paso, CO

Built 1999 Load: 61.8 t ADT: 476

HANCOCK AVENUE

Good

Over: TEMPLETON GAP FLOODWAY

.5 MI NE FILLMORE/NEVADA, El Paso, CO

Built 2012 Load: 63.0 t ADT: 3,792

I 25 NB ML

Good

Over: WILDLIFE UNDERPASS

1.8 MI N OF MONUMENT, El Paso, CO

Built 2019 Load: 64.8 t ADT: 67,000

MERIDIAN RANCH BLV

Good

Over: SQUIRREL CREEK TRIBUTARY

0.2 MI N OF STAPELTON RD, El Paso, CO

Built 2002 Load: 67.2 t ADT: 1,808

WAYNOKA ROAD

Good

Over: SAND CREEK

0.2 MI. NE OF POWERS BLVD, El Paso, CO

Built 2004 Load: 68.5 t ADT: 3,395

SH 16 ML

Good

Over: OVERFLOW CHANNEL

0.2 mi E of Jct US 85, El Paso, CO

Built 1988 Load: 68.5 t ADT: 32,000

HOLTWOOD ROAD

Good

Over: HORSE CREEK

0.7 MI N OF CORONA ROAD, El Paso, CO

Built 2017 Load: 71.3 t ADT: 55

EAST LAS VEGAS ST

Good

Over: COLONY HILLS CANAL

0.45 MI N OF HWY 85-87, El Paso, CO

Built 2020 Load: 72.3 t ADT: 6,535

FALCON HIGHWAY

Good

Over: BRANCH SQUIRREL CREEK

0.1 MI E OF ABILENE DRIVE, El Paso, CO

Built 1995 Load: 73.3 t ADT: 2,048

I 25 ML NBND

Good

Over: SMITH CREEK

5.3 MI N OF JCT SH 83 ML, El Paso, CO

Built 1958 Load: 78.9 t ADT: 46,000

Gateway Road

Good

Over: Foothills Trail

W of 30th St intersection, El Paso, CO

Built 2022 Load: 81.0 t ADT: 1,900

JACKPOT DRIVE

Good

Over: WEST SAND CREEK TRIB.

JUST W OF CHARLOTTE PKWY, El Paso, CO

Built 1996 Load: 86.9 t ADT: 1,714

AIRPORT ROAD

Good

Over: SPRING CREEK

0.15 MI W OF ACADEMY BLVD, El Paso, CO

Built 2022 Load: 87.5 t ADT: 10,017

WEST MONUMENT CREE

Good

Over: WEST MONUMENT CREEK

0.5 MI SOUTHWEST OF PINE, El Paso, CO

Built 1980 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 50

WINDHOVER LN

Good

Over: LOCAL DRAINAGE

JUST S OF HANCOCK EXPWY, El Paso, CO

Built 2001 Load: 90.9 t ADT: 507

CHESTNUT STREET

Good

Over: DOUGLAS CREEK

JUST NORTH OF FILLMORE ST, El Paso, CO

Built 2018 Load: 91.0 t ADT: 5,970

BOCA RATON HEIGHTS

Good

Over: SAND CREEK

0.1 MI N OF INDIAN VILL, El Paso, CO

Built 2004 Load: 96.9 t ADT: 1,512

I25 NB RAMP

Good

Over: SMITH CREEK

JUST S OF NORTHGATE BLVD, El Paso, CO

Built 2022 Load: 97.2 t ADT: 15,000

SH 115 ML

Good

Over: RED CREEK

16 MI S / 83 ACADEMY BLV, El Paso, CO

Built 2002 Load: 99.0 t ADT: 8,900

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