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San Diego–Coronado Bridge. / 32.6865; -117.1583. The San Diego–Coronado Bridge, commonly referred to as the Coronado Bridge, is a prestressed concrete / steel girder bridge fixed-link, crossing over San Diego Bay in the United States, linking San Diego with Coronado, California. [ 6] The bridge is signed as part of State Route 75 .
Goat Canyon Trestle is a wooden trestle in San Diego County, California. [ 1] At a length of 597–750 feet (182–229 m), it is the world's largest all-wood trestle. [ 1][ 8][ 10][ 11] Goat Canyon Trestle was built in 1933 as part of the San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway, after one of the many tunnels through the Carrizo Gorge collapsed ...
The Bridgeport Covered Bridge is located in Bridgeport, Nevada County, California, southwest of French Corral and north of Lake Wildwood. It is used as a pedestrian crossing over the South Yuba River. The bridge was built in 1862 by David John Wood. Its lumber came from Plum Valley in Sierra County, California. [5]
Bixby Bridge, also known as Bixby Creek Bridge, on the Big Sur coast of California, is one of the most photographed bridges in California due to its aesthetic design, "graceful architecture and magnificent setting". [ 3][ 4] It is a reinforced concrete open- spandrel arch bridge. The bridge is 120 miles (190 km) south of San Francisco and 13 ...
Oldest building in City of San Francisco. The original chapel, built in 1771, was rebuilt out of adobe from 1782 to 1791. Cathedral of San Carlos Borromeo. Monterey. 1791-94. Cathedral. Part of the Presidio of Monterey. Oldest stone building in California and the second oldest extant cathedral in the United States. Plaza Hotel.
Location. The Benicia–Martinez Bridge refers to three parallel bridges which cross the Carquinez Strait just west of Suisun Bay in California; the spans link Benicia on the north side with Martinez on the south. The original 1.2-mile (1.9 km) deck truss bridge opened in 1962 to replace the last automotive ferry service in the San Francisco ...
August 6, 2024 at 5:15 PM. A brush fire in San Bernardino County has destroyed multiple homes in the area, according to San Bernardino County Fire Protection District. Named the Edgehill Fire, it ...
The Carquinez Bridge is a pair of parallel bridges spanning the Carquinez Strait at the northeastern end of San Francisco Bay. They form the part of Interstate 80 between Crockett and Vallejo, California, United States. The name Carquinez Bridge originally referred to a single cantilever bridge built in 1927, which was part of the direct route ...