Johnson Nature Preserve Trail Bridge

Johnson Nature Preserve is in a northeast suburb of Cincinnati that has a beautiful walking trail through the park.  The existing bridge that is a third of a mile into the woods washed out from erosion over the last 15 years.  The previous bridge limited the trail development on the far side of the stream because of the narrow width and low capacity. Axcess was contracted to design a wider, higher capacity bridge that would allow Montgomery Parks to expand the trail network on the other side of the bridge.

Axcess designed a structure that did not require any concrete for the foundations as the access to the location had a lot of elevation changes down a narrow and curvy trail. To achieve this Axcess designed the foundations to be helical piles that were directly bolted to the weathering steel I-Beams. To prevent further erosion of the stream edge, Axcess installed 32,000 pounds of rip rap after the demolition of the existing bridge was completed. The onsite work for this project was completed in only five days!