Amador County, California Bridges: State Route 104 Bridge across Sutter Creek

March 2013 (38.35500 Degrees, -120.93333 Degrees) Sutter Creek Bridge

As I've previously mentioned, Amador County is bordered by rivers and filled with creeks. We followed Sutter Creek to the west and it eventually flowed through the town of Ione. At Preston Avenue (SR104) on the east side of town is a three span continuous concrete slab bridge that crosses Sutter Creek on skinny pier walls. The bridge is 92 ft long, 52 ft wide, and was built in 1970. It carries 5100 vehicles a day and is in 'Good' condition with a sufficiency rating of 87.3.

Perhaps in acknowledgment to Ione's history as a gold mining town they've put stone facing stones on the concrete barriers (and an unattractive tall fence above the barrier).

Just west of the bridge is another one of those pony truss pedestrian bridges, which are apparently quite common, at least across Sutter Creek.

Amador County, California Bridges: State Route 104 Bridge across Sutter Creek by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.