South of Edwardsville, Illinois, in search of the turnoff for Chain of Rocks Road, we wound up instead swept along in the current of St. Louis–bound trucks on I-270. We had to settle for an out-the-window view of the famous iron bridge that since 1927 has spanned the Mississippi with a quirky thirty-degree bend in the middle.
The bridge hasn’t been drivable since 1968, but it was rescued in 1999 as…
