Placer County, California's Bridges: No Hands Bridge across the North Fork of the American River (4)

November 2012 (38.913 Degrees, -121.0416 Degrees) No Hands Bridge

The Mountain Quarries Bridge is over 100 years old. It was part of a seven mile long railway that carried blocks of limestone from the quarry near Cool across the North Fork of the American River to the Southern Pacific Railroad at the Auburn railway station. This enterprise ended in 1939 but the bridge still remains. More modern structures upstream were washed away by the floods, but this structure, with its arches high above the river, is still in pretty good shape. The bridge and much of the roadbed are now part of the Western States Trail.

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