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Rio Grande Gorge Bridge

Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, NM

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About this place

A cantilever bridge 650 feet above the Rio Grande, used for its vertiginous span and its view of the gorge below.

Trivia

At the time of its 1965 completion it was the highest bridge in the US Highway System.

Access notes

A cantilever bridge 650 feet above the Rio Grande, with a pedestrian walkway and rest-stop parking. Open at all times; can be very windy.

Parking

Free rest-area parking at both ends.

Filmed Here

What Was Filmed Here

Terminator Salvation· 2009

Post-nuclear bridge chase

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The steel truss Rio Grande Gorge Bridge spanning the deep canyon near Taos.Now
Daniel Schwen · CC BY-SA 4.0

What happened here

The bridge over the Rio Grande Gorge was used for the scene where Kyle Reese and Star are pursued across a bridge littered with wrecked vehicles following a nuclear detonation. Traffic on US 64 was intermittently halted during filming in June 2008.

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