Santa Clara County, California Bridges: Alum Rock Park Bridge across Upper Penitencia Creek

May 2014 (37.39638 Degrees, -121.82425 Degrees)

There are a lot more of these handmade stone and concrete bridges around Alum Rock Park. Today's bridge is located near the entrance to the park and was built in 1909. I like the river stones protruding out of the parapet and the big round end posts covered in rocks that look like nuts on some kind of pastry.

The Penitencia Creek Road Bridge (37C0237) is a 45 ft long stone arch that is eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. The bridge is composed of a concrete barrel arch supporting closed stone spandrel walls and a bridge deck. It is another bridge designed by Santa Clara County surveyor John G. McMillan, who also designed the previously studied Saratoga Creek Bridge.

Santa Clara County, California Bridges: Alum Rock Park Bridge across Upper Penitencia Creek by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.