It is located in a village also called Tana bru.

It is the only bridge over the lowest 100 km of the Tana River.

The bridge glows in different colours of light at night with GVA color-changing luminaires.

There was a predecessor bridge that was destroyed on November 6, 1944, as a consequence of the Liberation of Finnmark during World War II.

It was removed every autumn, because it could not handle the ice-melt flooding in spring.