Tuolumne County, California Bridges: State Route 49 Bridge across New Melones Lake

September 2005 (38.00667 Degrees, -120.49833 Degrees) New Melones Bridge

On the border between Calaveras and Tuolumne Counties is New Melones Lake formed by damming the Stanislaus River. Old State Route 49 crosses the lake carried by the New Melones Bridge (32 0040). Its a 2250 ft long, 6 span steel box girder bridge built in 1976. I discussed this bridge before on June 4, 2013 when we were studying Calaveras County Bridges. We are in the foothills of the Sierra Mountains and all of the rivers (except for the Smith River) are dammed.

Tuolumne County, California Bridges: State Route 49 Bridge across New Melones Lake by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.