Placer County, California's Bridges: Old Foresthill Road Bridge (2)

November 2012 (38.9166 Degrees, -121.0360 Degrees) Old Foresthill Road Bridge

The North Fork of the American River merges with the Middle Fork just downstream from today's bridge. This is a five span steel girder bridge on tall, hammerhead single column bents. The river must get very high to need such tall bents. Perhaps the last bridge at this site was washed away. 

On the Google earth photo below, we can see that the Old Foresthill Road makes an almost 180 degree turn as it crosses the North Fork of the American River. Thus, the Old Forest Hill Road Bridge is on a small radius horizontal curve. The Middle Fork of the American River flows just south of the bridge and it also marks the southern border for Placer County.

Placer County, California's Bridges: Old Foresthill Road Bridge (2) by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License.