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The Queen Creek Tunnel is a 1,217-foot-long (371 m) tunnel on US 60 in the Superstition Mountains, just east of Superior, Arizona. [2] Completed in 1952, the Queen Creek Tunnel links Phoenix with Safford by way of Superior and Globe/Miami. It replaced the smaller Claypool Tunnel that had been built in 1926.
Queen Creek Tunnel, 1,200-ft road US 60, just east of Superior; Verde Canyon Railroad Tunnel, 680-foot-long (210 m) railway tunnel, Yavapai County; Arkansas.
In 1949, the Pinto Creek Bridge won an Annual Award of Merit for being the "most beautiful steel bridge", given by the American Institute of Steel Construction. [14] In 1952, the Claypool Tunnel was bypassed by the Queen Creek Tunnel to the north, upgrading from a simple “hole in the rock”-type tunnel to a more modern tunnel. [14]
The Magma Avenue Bridge – Built in 1910 over the Queen Creek, served as an entrance to the town of Superior from the old Hwy. 60. [10] The Old Queen Creek Bridge – Built in 1920 over Upper Queen Creek. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on September 30, 1988, ref. #88001679.
Poland Tunnel: 1904 1978-03-29 Poland ... Queen Creek Bridge: 1920, 1921 1988-09-30 Superior Pinal: Open spandrel deck arch ...
The creek trickled heavily across the tunnel floor during the News-Leader's tour, which is not typical. For the most part, the tunnels are dry or only carry a small amount of creek water.
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The tunnel, concealed with wooden panels and hidden access through a sewer, measured approximately 300 meters on the Mexican side, with dimensions of 1.80 meters in height and 1.20 meters in width.