San Mateo County, California Bridges: Mountain Home Road Bridge across Bear Creek

July 2014 (37.42688 Degrees, -122.25355 Degrees) Mountain Home Road Bridge

The bridges we are currently studying were all built near the town of Woodside in 1903 and are very similar. They're short concrete arches with wingwalls and barriers formed as extensions to the spandrel walls. Note the bags of hardened concrete used to protect the abutment foundations from scour. Similar to yesterday's King Mountain Road Bridge there is a timber walkway erected to carry equestrians due to the narrow bridge deck. The Mountain Home Road Bridge (35C0122) is also eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. There's a plaque next to the timber bridge to honor the late Dale Ryman, a former Caltrans engineer who built many equestrian bridges next to roadway bridges in the region (see photo below).

San Mateo County, California Bridges: Mountain Home Road Bridge across Bear Creek by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.