Sonoma County, California Bridges: Laughlin Road Bridge across Mark West Creek

August 2014 (38.50000 Degrees, -122.79889 Degrees) Laughlin Road Bridge

Continuing northwest of Santa Rosa we arrived at the final single span arch bridge in our study. The Laughlin Road Bridge (20C0246) across Mark West Creek is narrow (16.4 ft), on a short radius curve, and just south of Sonoma Airport. Consequently the bridge ensnares a couple of truck drivers every month. In a recent article in the Windsor Press Democrat they show several interesting photos of just how stuck a big truck can get on a narrow curved bridge.

This bridge was built in 1916 and they're planning to replace it in 2017. It has nicely pointed end posts and a plaque naming the people who made the bridge. I guess the problem isn't with the bridge but with the narrow road that turns so sharply to cross over Mark West Creek.

Sonoma County, California Bridges: Laughlin Road Bridge across Mark West Creek by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.