7.5 miles away
Telegraph Pass Trail
A 4.3-mile hike with rewarding views at the top. The best times of year are fall through spring; plan on spending about 3 hr.
McPhaul Suspension Bridge
The McPhaul Suspension Bridge, sometimes known as Yuma, Arizona's Bridge to Nowhere, is a suspension bridge that used to carry a section of Arizona Route 95 (AZ SR 95, which later became US 95). The bridge is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The bridge, which was named for local Yuma resident Henry Harrison McPhaul, was built over the Gila River in 1929 and replaced in 1968 when it was deemed insufficient for modern transportation needs.
Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Historic Site
- Destination
- Yuma
- County
- Yuma County
- State
- Arizona
- Designations
- National Register of Historic Places listed place
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 45.4 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 24.2
- Significance score
- 63.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Coordinates
- 32.7594, -114.4206
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12
Where it is
McPhaul Suspension Bridge is a historic site near Yuma, in Yuma County. It is one of the historic sites in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.
How this ranking was reached
This place scores 45.4 out of 100, at medium confidence. No official visitor count is published for it, so the score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page.
Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.
Sources
- Description: Wikipedia(opens in a new tab), used under CC BY-SA 4.0(opens in a new tab)
- Public interest: Wikimedia pageviews (en.wikipedia, human traffic), 2024
- Coordinates and designations: Wikidata(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
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Ocean To Ocean Bridge
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Sanguinetti House Museum and Gardens
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