{"id":257714,"date":"2026-04-20T09:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/257714\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T09:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:54:16","slug":"rainbow-bridge-in-port-arthur-has-reopened-after-2025-repairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/257714\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Bridge in Port Arthur has reopened after 2025 repairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Port Arthur&#8217;s historic Rainbow Bridge\u00a0\u2014 often described as one of the scariest bridges in Texas for its height and steep incline \u2014 has reopened after a being closed down for maintenance in 2025, according to the Texas Department of Transportation.<\/p>\n<p>The agency took to social media to announce the April 11 reopening of the bridge that crosses the\u00a0Neches River to connect Jefferson and Orange counties. It had been closed for over a year and underwent railing and structural steel repairs, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaumontenterprise.com\/news\/article\/rainbow-bridge-reopening-inspection-22155842.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Beaumont Enterprise<\/a>. During the closure, traffic was diverted to the Veterans Memorial Bridge,\u00a0TxDOT officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/visitportarthurtx.com\/things-to-do\/attraction\/rainbow-bridge\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">According to the Visit Port Arthur Texas webpage, <\/a>the Rainbow Bridge is one of the tallest along the Gulf Coast, with a height of of a 20-story building \u2014 just enough for the tallest naval ship to pass through \u2014 and clears the\u00a0Neches river by 177 feet. Construction of the bridge was completed in 1938.<\/p>\n<p>Its height and steepness is what has caused many to dub it one of the scariest bridges in Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is exactly the stuff of my childhood nightmares,&#8221; one Reddit user commented on the news of the bridge opening.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Port Arthur&#8217;s historic Rainbow Bridge\u00a0\u2014 often described as one of the scariest bridges in Texas for its height&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-257714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}