El Dorado County, California Bridges: Grizzly Flat Road Bridge across the Steely Fork of the Cosumnes RIver

March 2013 (38.6207 Degrees, -120.5794 degrees) Grizzly Flat Road Bridge

We'll spend the next few days looking at a last few river crossings in El Dorado County before we move on to Amador County's bridges.

The Steely Fork is one of several tributaries that flow into the Middle Fork of the Cosumnes River. The Grizzly Flat Road Bridge is the only structure that crosses the Steel Fork. It's another single span bridge, but this reinforced concrete slab sits on seat-type abutments. It's a 64 ft long bridge that was built in 1936. It has huge cast-in-place barrier rails between big concrete retaining walls. This bridge has attractive architectural features such as recesses in the barrier and a nice curve to the soffit.

El Dorado County, California Bridges: Grizzly Flat Road Bridge across the Steely Fork of the Cosumnes RIver by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.