Hayden Bridge is located in Springfield, Oregon, near the intersection of the Marcola, Old Mohawk and Camp Creek roads.

[6][7][8] It has been our endeavor to give the greatest possible simplicity to details, and so to dispose the material in them as to transfer stress in the most direct and simple manner, and by such a method give to each main member precisely and only that kind of stress which it is intended to take.Hayden Bridge is a fabricated truss bridge constructed of wrought iron.

[3] The bridge also incorporates cast-iron connections and decorative pieces, including ornamental medallions and railroad brake-wheel designs.

[1] The bridge currently sits atop granite slabs, which are in turn set in concrete abutments.

[1][10][14] During the turn of the century, the bridge was bought and shipped over 1,000 miles away to be re-erected in its current location over the McKenzie River in Springfield, Oregon by Southern Pacific Railroad.

[1] This was caused by the shutting down of the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company mill at Wendling, Oregon in 1946, which was the only location that the line served until that point,[d] which led traffic across the bridge to dwindle.

[17] In 1960, Weyerhaeuser bought the Marcola Branch, extending it to reach its Calapooya Tree Farm, allowing for it to make shipments between there and Springfield mill by 1962.

[1] In 1967 the company feared the bridge could completely collapse due to failures in its truss and its below-standard vertical clearance and load limit.

[1] As trucks became cheaper to ship lumber than by rail and as the timber surrounding the Marcola line vanished, the use of the bridge ground to a halt as the last train traveled over it on September 3, 1987.

[6][15][16] The reason for the transaction was that Weyerhaeuser wanted to avoid liability for the increasing number of bridge jumpers frequenting the location.

Bowers, the North Skunk River Greenbelt Association executive director, then stepped down and left it up to the surrounding community to raise an additional $100,000 to fully convert the area into a park.