Lewis and Clark Bridge, Cable-stayed bridge in Louisville, United States
The Lewis and Clark Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge over the Ohio River northeast of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, carrying Interstate 265 between Kentucky and Indiana. Two white pylons shaped like inverted Ys rise above a flat deck with vertical railings; from each pylon top, white cables fan diagonally down to the deck edge. The deck has a light gray surface, with dark pavement on the right half.
The bridge opened in 2016 as part of a major infrastructure project around Louisville to improve regional connectivity. It links previously disconnected highway sections across the Ohio River.
The structure bears the names of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, commemorating the explorers who charted territories across North America in the early 1800s.
Tolling for motor vehicles began on December 30, 2016, twelve days after the bridge opened. The span carries a walking and bicycling route across the Ohio River, linking the Kentucky and Indiana banks of I-265. Drivers should expect electronic toll collection rather than a staffed booth.
The bridge's name honors William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, not his older brother George Rogers Clark, for whom the downtown Clark Memorial Bridge is named. The two "Clark" bridges in Louisville therefore commemorate different people, a distinction many drivers miss.
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