Sacramento County, California Bridges: East Bidwell Street Bridge across Willow Creek

September 2013 (38.66778 Degrees, -121.14694 Degrees) East Bidwell Street Bridge

There's an old arch bridge in Folsom that I wanted to photograph but I had to ride my bike 20 miles on the Jebediah Smith Auxiliary Bike Trail to get to it. When I finally reached it, I thought I had made a mistake, because I just saw a double box culvert. However, after I entered the culvert, and my eyes adjusted to the darkness, I found the arch bridge sandwiched between two double box culverts.

They must have built a double box culvert on each side of the old arch bridge as a way of widening East Bidwell Street. One box now carries the bicycle path and the other box carries Willow Creek. I would imagine during the winter you can't ride through this culvert because it's full of water from the swollen creek.

The East Bidwell Street Bridge over Willow Creek is a 32 ft long closed spandrel deck arch bridge that was built in 1930. It was widened with box culverts on each side in 1986 and is now 85.6 ft wide.

Sacramento County, California Bridges: East Bidwell Street Bridge across Willow Creek by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.