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If you’ve ever been to the Outer Banks, you’ve likely driven across the bridge over Oregon Inlet. The three-mile-long Basnight Bridge opened in 2019. And

The National Park Service was instrumental in building the bridge over North Carolina's Oregon Inlet after establishing Cape Hatteras National Seashore in the 1930s.

Crossing Oregon Inlet: The history of connecting the Outer Banks PUBLISHED 4:29 PM ET Jun. 01, 2021 PUBLISHED 4:29 PM EDT Jun. 01, 2021 SHARE OUTER BANKS, N.C. — Someone on the video gives a countdown, “Four, three, two, one”, before explosives detonate on one of the last remaining stretches of the Bonner Bridge. The video, shared on social media by the U.S. Coast Guard last week, shows the final days of the bridge that spanned Oregon Inlet and connected Hatteras Island to the neighboring Outer Banks towns to the north. “Before t...

New railings along the Bonner Bridge section being converted into a fishing pier. [NCDOT photo] To keep everyone safe, officials are reminding people that the pedestrian pier being constructed from the vestiges of the old Herbert C. Bonner Bridge is currently closed to the public. Work is expected to be completed later this summer. However, N.C. Department of Transportation contract crews are constructing a new hard surface walking path from the parking lot to the pier, removing asphalt from the old N.C. 12 at the south end of the pier and installing signs on the pier. Until work is complete ...

The state expects to open it to the public this summer. “There are dozens of very vocal fishermen anxious to get this open,” said Pablo Hernandez, resident engineer with the North Carolina Department of Transportation. The pier will be safer and more accommodating than the narrow catwalks attached that were popular with anglers, Hernandez said. People had maneuvered around fishing gear and buckets to move along the catwalks. They had to cross N.C. 12 to get to the walkway on the west side of the bridge. The catwalk is gone. The 28-foot wide former roadbed stands 19 feet above the water wi...