The Moyie River Canyon Bridge is a structural steel truss cantilever bridge at mile marker 70 on U.S. Route 2 spanning the Moyie River near Bonners Ferry and Moyie Springs. It was constructed in 1965 and it is 1,223-foot (373 m) long and 424 feet (129 m) high. The current bridge replaced an obsolete bridge built in 1923, directly downstream from the municipally owned Moyie Dam.
The bridge is the second highest in Idaho, exceeded only by the 476-foot (145 m) high Perrine Bridge across the Snake River near Twin Falls, Idaho.
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