Old Highway Bridge

I love old highway alignments: pavement and bridges that were abandoned when a new alignment was constructed. If you come into Highland, Illinois on U.S. 40 from the east, and if you're able to slow down and look through the trees at Lakeside Drive, you'll see this c. 1920 bridge and an early pavement that the modern U.S. 40 (just to the right in this picture) replaced. Route 40 across Illinois was called State Route 11 in 1918-1926 and was part of the transcontinental National Old Trails Highway. I took this picture in 2018.