The bridge is located between Easton, Pennsylvania and Phillipsburg, New Jersey in the Lehigh Valley.

The main river bridge consists of a 540-foot (160 m) Petit through-truss span over the river; a 430-foot (130 m), five-span plate-girder viaduct at the New Jersey approach, and a 40-foot (12 m) pre-stressed concrete boxbeam span over Pennsylvania Route 611 on the Pennsylvania approach.

There are 8-foot (2.4 m) concrete pedestrian sidewalks outside the trusses on each side.

When it was constructed in 1938, the bridge was the longest steel truss in the United States, a distinction it held for 19 years.

The toll plaza collects only westbound lanes going into Pennsylvania, and includes the E-ZPass system.