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Ulster County, NY

392 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 21.7% rated Good, 57.4% Fair, 20.9% Poor.

392
Public bridges
21.7%
Good condition
20.9%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Ulster County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.

61st
of 62 on Poor share
20.9%
Poor-condition share
392
public highway bridges
1974
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.

Ulster County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Ulster County ranks #61 of 62 New York counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 20.9%). Ulster County, New York contains 392 public highway bridges. Roughly 21.7% are rated “Good,” 57.4% “Fair,” and 20.9% “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

392

Public highway bridges in Ulster County

Good condition

21.7%

85 of 392 rated 7-9

Fair condition

57.4%

225 of 392 rated 5-6

Poor condition

20.9%

82 of 392 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#61 of 62

Among New York counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better

Condition distribution

Share of 392 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
21.7% (85)
Fair
57.4% (225)
Poor
20.9% (82)

Ulster County's Poor-condition bridges carry 204,453 vehicle crossings a day

That is 12.9% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 20.6% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 2,588 crossings a day against 4,217 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 383 of 392 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

49.7% of Ulster County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

195 of the 392 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 21.7% 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 17.5% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

RTE I87 over RTE 213 WALLKILL RIVER, built 1955, carries 35,755 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 82-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 204,453 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

When Ulster County's bridges were built

392 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 70 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 17.9% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1974) matches the New York average (1972).

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

How Ulster County compares with New York's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 New York counties nearest Ulster County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 20.9% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1974 against a peer-group mean of 1975 is in line with the group.

Showing the 5 closest of 61 New York counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Ulster County and the 5 New York counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Delaware County 450 6.9%
Allegany County 402 6.2%
Ulster County (this page) 392 20.9%
Suffolk County 369 1.4%
Sullivan County 365 7.7%
Albany County 343 5.2%

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 Ulster 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 Ulster County, both outside New York so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside NY (392 bridges here).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside NY (1974 here).

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

All 392 Good 85 Fair 225 Poor 82

All bridges (392)

COUNTY ROAD 49A

Good

Over: RIDER HOLLOW STREAM

3.5 MILES NORTH OF SEAGER, Ulster, NY

Built 2007 Load: 68.4 t ADT: 192

BECKLEY DRIVE

Good

Over: FANTINE KILL

AT ELLENVILLE, Ulster, NY

Built 2010 Load: 69.9 t ADT: 232

KATE YAEGER ROAD

Good

Over: Plattekill Creek

0.6 MI SE JCT CR 33 & W.S, Ulster, NY

Built 2012 Load: 69.9 t ADT: 240

CLOVE ROAD

Good

Over: COXING KILL

0.6 MI E OF MINNEWASKA, Ulster, NY

Built 2022 Load: 73.5 t ADT: 263

PECK HOLLOW ROAD

Good

Over: PECK HOLLOW STRM

.4 MI N JCT SH28&PK HL RD, Ulster, NY

Built 2020 Load: 76.2 t ADT: 53

RTE 209

Good

Over: VER NOOY KILL

1.6 MI N JCT RTS 209+55, Ulster, NY

Built 1933 Load: 77.1 t ADT: 10,261

RTE 32

Good

Over: 87IX RTE I87

JCT RTS 32+I87, Ulster, NY

Built 2017 Load: 78.9 t ADT: 7,161

RTE 28A

Good

Over: ASHOKAN RESV OTLT

1.0MI E JCT RTE 28A&213, Ulster, NY

Built 2010 Load: 85.3 t ADT: 1,574

NEW PALTZ ROAD

Good

Over: Hudson Valley Rail Trail

1.3 MI E OF HIGHLAND VILL, Ulster, NY

Built 2011 Load: 91.6 t ADT: 3,298

RTE 44

Good

Over: PETERS KILL

6.3 MI E JCT RTS 44 & 209, Ulster, NY

Built 1997 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 3,436

RTE 984

Poor

Over: DOCK STREET RONDOUT CRE

12.5MI N JCT RTS 9W+299, Ulster, NY

Built 1921 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 5,634

PORT BEN ROAD

Poor

Over: RONDOUT CREEK

.7 MI SE OF WAWARSING, Ulster, NY

Built 1915 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 259

BROOKSIDE ROAD

Poor

Over: 87IX RTE I87

2.2 MI S. OF RTE 299, Ulster, NY

Built 1955 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 1,107

VALLI ROAD

Poor

Over: BLACK CREEK

1.1 MI NW OF WEST PARK, Ulster, NY

Built 1954 Load: 2.7 t ADT: 29

BOICE MILL ROAD

Poor

Over: FALLS MILL BROOK

0.8 MI NE OF PATAUKUNK, Ulster, NY

Built 1929 Load: 3.6 t ADT: 607

COUNTY ROAD 54

Poor

Over: BEAVER KILL

AT TURNWOOD, Ulster, NY

Built 1939 Load: 4.9 t ADT: 134

LAWRENCE ROAD

Poor

Over: STONY KILL

.7 MI SE OF ACCORD, Ulster, NY

Built 1929 Load: 5.5 t ADT: 52

RTE 32

Poor

Over: PLATTEKILL CREEK

2.0 MI N JCT RTS 32+44, Ulster, NY

Built 1915 Load: 9.1 t ADT: 4,358

RTE 212

Poor

Over: TANNERY BROOK

0.5 MI W JCT RTS 212+375, Ulster, NY

Built 1930 Load: 10.9 t ADT: 5,208

CHURCH ROAD

Poor

Over: TRIBUTARY ESOPUS CREEK

0.1 m NW NYS-28 and CR-47, Ulster, NY

Built 1998 Load: 10.9 t ADT: 16

FAWN HILL ROAD

Poor

Over: WOODLAND CREEK

2.5 MILES SW OF PHOENICA, Ulster, NY

Built 1988 Load: 12.7 t ADT: 37

FOX HOLLOW ROAD

Poor

Over: FOX HOLLOW CREEK

2.4 MI S OF SH 28-ALLABEN, Ulster, NY

Built 1995 Load: 12.7 t ADT: 241

SOUTH HOLLOW ROAD

Poor

Over: BUSH KILL

2.2 MI SW OF WEST SHOKAN, Ulster, NY

Built 1983 Load: 12.7 t ADT: 8

OLD ROUTE 209

Poor

Over: KRIPPLEBUSH CREEK

0.9 MI SE OF KRIPPLEBUSH, Ulster, NY

Built 1927 Load: 13.7 t

SUNDOWN ROAD

Poor

Over: WYNCOOP CREEK

7.0 MI N JCT RTS 209 & 44, Ulster, NY

Built 1962 Load: 14.3 t ADT: 236

DRUMMOND FALLS ROA

Poor

Over: KAATERSKILL CREEK

1.0 MI SE OF PATENVILLE, Ulster, NY

Built 1884 Load: 14.5 t ADT: 279

COUNTY ROAD 19

Poor

Over: WALLKILL RIVER

4 MI SW JCT RTS 208+44, Ulster, NY

Built 1940 Load: 14.5 t ADT: 688

RTE 212

Poor

Over: SAW KILL

3.7 MI W JCT RTS 212+375, Ulster, NY

Built 1935 Load: 17.2 t ADT: 1,234

RTE 28A

Poor

Over: ESOPUS CREEK

JCT RTE 28&28A-ESOPUS CRK, Ulster, NY

Built 1911 Load: 17.2 t ADT: 1,393

ROCK HILL ROAD

Poor

Over: PETERS KILL

1.9 MI SE OF ACCORD, Ulster, NY

Built 1955 Load: 17.2 t ADT: 41

RESERVOIR ROAD

Poor

Over: ASHOKAN RESERVOIR

2.3 MI NE JCT NY28A+NY213, Ulster, NY

Built 1914 Load: 18.1 t ADT: 1,600

RTE 28A

Poor

Over: EX-ULSTER & DELWR

.3 MI W JCT SH 28A & SH28, Ulster, NY

Built 1911 Load: 18.6 t ADT: 1,393

BRIDGE ROAD

Poor

Over: STONY KILL

2.2 MI SE OF KERHONKSON, Ulster, NY

Built 1955 Load: 19.1 t ADT: 9

BARBARA ROAD

Poor

Over: WEST BRANCH BEER KILL

1.7 MI E OF GREENFIELD PK, Ulster, NY

Built 1965 Load: 20.0 t

BONNIEVIEW RD

Poor

Over: CATHEDRAL GLEN

AT PINE HILL, Ulster, NY

Built 1930 Load: 20.0 t ADT: 12

RTE 212

Poor

Over: BEAVER KILL

3.6 MI E JCT RTS 212+28, Ulster, NY

Built 1974 Load: 21.8 t ADT: 1,234

COUNTY ROAD 47

Poor

Over: ESOPUS CREEK

.4 MI EAST OF BIG INDIAN, Ulster, NY

Built 1953 Load: 21.8 t ADT: 164

OLD GREENFIELD RD

Poor

Over: WEST BRANCH BEER KILL

200FT from RT 52, Ulster, NY

Built 1924 Load: 22.7 t ADT: 86

WATER FALLS ROAD

Poor

Over: MOMBACCUS CREEK

1.8 MI NW OF PATAUKUNK, Ulster, NY

Built 1955 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 70

DOUG RD

Poor

Over: ROCHESTER CREEK

3.0 MI SW OF KRUMVILLE, Ulster, NY

Built 1996 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 53

RTE 32

Poor

Over: RONDOUT CREEK

JCT RTE32+RONDOUT CR, Ulster, NY

Built 1934 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 9,045

RTE 9W

Poor

Over: ESOPUS CREEK

7.3 MI N JCT RTS 9W+209, Ulster, NY

Built 1932 Load: 25.4 t ADT: 12,282

RTE 208

Poor

Over: PLATTE KILL

1.9 MI S JCT SH208 &SH299, Ulster, NY

Built 1993 Load: 26.3 t ADT: 5,521

OHIOVILLE ROAD

Poor

Over: 87IX RTE I87

2.8 MI S OF NEW PALTZ, Ulster, NY

Built 1955 Load: 26.3 t ADT: 1,822

BEAVER KILL ROAD

Poor

Over: SCUDDER BROOK

0.8 MI SE OF TURNWOOD, Ulster, NY

Built 1953 Load: 28.1 t ADT: 134

County Road 40

Poor

Over: BEAVER KILL

0.6 MI N JCT RTS 28+212, Ulster, NY

Built 1991 Load: 28.1 t ADT: 1,081

CR 89

Poor

Over: I-87 RTE I87

0.5 MI E OF KATSBAAN, Ulster, NY

Built 1948 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 2,282

ULSTER HEIGHTS RD

Poor

Over: BOTSFORD BROOK

2.9 MI N OF GREENFIELD PK, Ulster, NY

Built 1953 Load: 29.5 t ADT: 178

CLINTON AVENUE

Poor

Over: NORTH GULLY

IN ELLENVILLE, Ulster, NY

Built 1966 Load: 29.9 t ADT: 997

COUNTY ROAD 47

Poor

Over: HATCHERY HOLLOW

1.4 MILES S OF BIG INDIAN, Ulster, NY

Built 1986 Load: 29.9 t ADT: 164

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