Santa Clara County, California Bridges: Happy Hollow Park Bridge

May 2014 (37.32618 Degrees, -121.86040 Degrees) Happy Hollow Park Bridge

Continuing south from the Taylor Street Interchange I arrived at the Happy Hollow Park and Zoo, which has an interesting two span steel arch bridge at the entrance to the park. The bridge is composed of identical 270 ft long arch spans that are 22 ft high and carries pedestrians across Coyote Creek into the park. The bridge was designed by Ted Zoli of HNTB and completed at a cost of $3.4 by Anderson Pacific Engineering Construction in 2012.

The arch ribs are composed of rolled steel I girders loaded on their weak axis. I like how the cross-bracing weaves back and forth between the arch ribs. The deck hangs from crossed pairs of 3/4 inch diameter steel cables. I wonder if that makes this bridge a Nielsen Lohse Arch? 

Santa Clara County, California Bridges: Happy Hollow Park Bridge by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.