page_title: Indian River Inlet Bridge
section_title: Current bridge
hierarchical_section_title: Indian River Inlet Bridge / History / Current bridge
caption_attribution_description: Looking south from the bridge deck.
context_page_description: The Indian River Inlet Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge located in Sussex County, Delaware, in the United States. It carries four lanes of Delaware Route 1 over the Indian River Inlet between the Indian River Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. The bridge also carries Delaware Bicycle Route 1 across the inlet. The bridge is within Delaware Seashore State Park between Dewey Beach and Bethany Beach. The Indian River Inlet Bridge is maintained by the Delaware Department of Transportation. The bridge is 2,600 feet long and 107.66 feet wide, with a span of 950 feet and overhead clearance of 45 feet.
  Prior to the current bridge, four other bridges have spanned the Indian River Inlet, opened in 1934, 1940, 1952, and 1965, the latter widened by an additional span added in 1976. All were known informally as the Indian River Inlet Bridge, and all but the first officially were named the Charles W. Cullen Bridge. The 1965 bridge, a steel girder bridge, was subject to scouring from the inlet, leading to the need to replace it.
caption: Indian River Inlet Bridge looking south in 2012
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