Roughly 600 feet (180 m) above the Rio Grande, it is the seventh highest bridge in the United States.

[3] This height was most likely derived using a laser range finder but the site did not specifically reference it that way.

An author of a bridge book noted this discrepancy and recommended this compromise number be used until the matter was authoritatively resolved.

[13] This 600’ figure then cropped up in a January 2016 Materials Performance Magazine white paper about the bridge's then just completed inspection by the New Mexico Department of Transportation.

[14] The bridge has appeared in several films, including Natural Born Killers, Twins, White Sands, She's Having a Baby, The Signal, Paul, Vacation, Wild Hogs, and Terminator Salvation.