Nevada County, California Bridges: Pine Street Bridge across Deer Creek (4)

December 2012 (39.2609 Degrees, -121.0193 Degrees) Pine Street Bridge

I managed to stitch together this panorama of the Pine Street Bridge. If  you look closely you can see a couple roofs of houses behind the trees, but otherwise it looks like the bridge is in the middle of the forest instead of in the middle of a small city. I'm surprised that they are allowed to drain water from the bridge deck into Deer Creek. Much more information on the history of this bridge site can be obtained from the Nevada County Transportation Newsletter , from the Library of Congress, and from the Bridgehunter Blog. However, the last two websites don't seem aware that the current Pine Street (Gault) Bridge is just a replica of the bridge that was built in 1903.

Perhaps part of the confusion stems from the bridge plaque, which refers to a third span but really means the third bridge at this site.

Nevada County, California Bridges: Pine Street Bridge across Deer Creek (4) by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License.