El Dorado County, California Bridges: Happy Valley Road Bridge across the North Fork of the Cosumnes River

January 2013 (38.6540 Degrees, -120.6652 Degrees) Happy Valley Road Bridge

The next bridge over the North Fork of the Cosumnes River is just a single span structure due to the river narrowing as we move upstream.  The Happy Valley Road Bridge (25C0099) is a 37.5 ft long reinforced concrete girder and floor beam bridge that was built in 1936. The haunched superstructure sits on two seat-type abutments supported on the curved bedrock of the river bank. It looks like the bridge was painted a long time ago but no attempt was ever made to repeat this experiment. The approaches to the bridge are supported by a variety of concrete and masonry retaining structures. 

El Dorado County, California Bridges: Happy Valley Road Bridge across the North Fork of the Cosumnes River by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.