Yolo County, California Bridges: Stevenson Road Bridge across Putah Creek (3)

July 2013 (38.53682, -121.851245) Stevenson Road Bridge

The arches on the Stevenson Road Bridge are supported on tall two column bents and the deck is supported by transverse floor beams between girders that are extensions of the barriers.

A strange thing about this bridge is that it is decorated with lots of graffiti and also with personalized plaques at the bottom of each spandrel column. Not only are there plaques with bas reliefs of frogs, turtles, and fishes, but there are also plaques testifying to love of alcohol and of bicycles.

Yolo County, California Bridges: Stevenson Road Bridge across Putah Creek (3) by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

Yolo County, California Bridges: Stevenson Road Bridge across Putah Creek (2)

July 2013 (38.53682, -121.851245) Stevenson Road Bridge

The Stevenson Road Bridge is near the campus of UC Davis, which may explain why it so well decorated with graffiti. In fact, I noticed many bike trails and college-aged bicyclists when I visited this bridge.

The bridge is similar to the previously visited Cache Creek Arch Bridge, but this bridge is in slightly better condition. Also, the Cache Creek Bridge appeared to have precast approach spans while the Stevenson Bridge has cast-in-place approach spans.

The Stevenson Road Bridge is 298 ft long with two 108 ft long arch spans. The deck is in poor condition and too narrow so it was evaluated as structurally deficient. The bridge site is so densely vegetated, and with so much poison oak, that I wasn't able to take a good elevation view of the bridge.

Yolo County, California Bridges: Stevenson Road Bridge across Putah Creek (2) by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.