Napa County, California Bridges: Third Street Bridge across the Napa River

November 2013 (38.29808 Degrees, -122.28367 Degrees) Third Street Bridge

The next bridge upstream across the Napa River is the Third Street Bridge (12C0012) in the City of Napa. This bridge replaced the previous bridge at this site in 2002. The new bridge is a 352 ft long three span box girder with a 156 ft long center span and with piers in the river. In the photo above we are standing upstream (at a bend in the river) looking downstream at the bridge. In the photo below we can see the river bend and the single span Soscol Avenue Bridge (21C0039) barely visible in the left corner of the photo.

I don't know if Napa restored their old buildings or built new buildings to look old, but the city resembles a 19th century town. The Third Street Bridge was also built to look old; with haunched girders, big sidewalks, old-fashioned lampposts, and balconies at the piers where pedestrians can contemplate the river.

Napa County, California Bridges: Third Street Bridge across the Napa River by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.