“Bolte and Eaton will float Colorado River,” announced a headline in The Aspen Times on May 27, 1954. “The dream of a pioneer heart will be realized beginning next Saturday when two local voyageurs ...

In the central Vermont town of Brookfield (pop. 1,292), the world’s first floating fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) bridge has replaced a 1978 version that carried state Route 65 traffic over Sunset ...

In the bucolic town of Brookfield, Vt., crews are finishing work on the world's first composite floating bridge. It is the eighth iteration of the original log bridge built in 1820, after a town ...

I am safely ensconced at John’s Boat Harbor in St. Charles, Missouri. after what had been a mostly uneventful 52-mile journey from Rockport, Illinois. I will get back to that later in this column.

Built in 1963, the first Evergreen Point Floating Bridge served as a critical connector for more than 70,000 vehicles moving across Lake Washington each day. Spanning 7,578 feet, it represented the ...

And so, the raft on the river portion of Hope on the River has come to an end. At 6:58 a.m. Wednesday, my brother, Karl, and I made our last mad dash run from Lettsworth, La., heading to Baton Rouge.

It’s been more than 20 years since Richard Leinschmidt and a bunch of his buddies first launched his homemade raft down the Connecticut River as part of the annual Connecticut River Raft Race. Named ...