Santa Clara County, California Bridges: El Camino Real Bridge across Adobe Creek

May 2014 (37.40629 Degrees, -122.12012 Degrees) Adobe Creek Bridge

We'll finish our survey of Santa Clara County with a few bridges in Palo Alto, the community that surrounds Stanford University. The Adobe Creek Bridge (37 0661) is called an arch but it's really just a culvert under El Camino Real (CA 82) Highway. It's 20 ft long and it was built in 2004. Perhaps it replaced an arch bridge or possibly the arch bridge is now hidden behind a road widening.

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Calaveras County, California Bridges: California Street Bridge across San Andreas Creek

April 2013 (38.19694 Degrees, -120.67944 Degrees) San Andreas Creek Bridge

The next bridge is called a three span culvert by the National Bridge Inventory. However, to my mind a culvert has some earth between the roof and the roadway, Also, because it's 37 ft long, it's long enough to be called a bridge. I would call it a three span continuous slab bridge on pier walls with cutwaters. The handrail is a little disappointing though.

The California Street Bridge across San Andreas Creek is in the old gold mining town of San Andreas. It was built in 1953, it has a sufficiency rating of 83, and it carries 200 vehicles a day.

Calaveras County, California Bridges: California Street Bridge across San Andreas Creek by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.