Nearest city Chico, California Architect Martindale, S. A. NRHP Reference # 88000920 Construction started 1886 Body of water Butte Creek | Built 1894 Architectural style Other Opened 1894 Total length 73 m | |
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Location Butte County, California Address 1670 Honey Run Rd, Chico, CA 95928, USA Similar Butte Creek, Bidwell Mansion State Hist, Chico Air Museum, Gateway Science Museum, Bidwell Park Profiles | ||
Honey run covered bridge
Honey Run Covered Bridge is a wooden covered bridge crossing Butte Creek, in Butte County, northern California.
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It is located on Honey Run Road at Centerville Road, about halfway in between Chico and Paradise.
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History
The wooden Honey Run Bridge was originally built in 1886 by the American Bridge & Building Company of San Francisco, and was opened to the public on January 3. 1887. Construction at the site was supervised by George Miller, Butte County Superintendent of Roads and Bridges.
The bridge was open to vehicular traffic until a truck crashed into the eastern span and damaged it in 1965 thus making the bridge virtually impassable. A new steel bridge was built upstream for vehicular traffic.
The covered bridge is now used as a pedestrian footbridge, protected within Honey Run Covered Bridge County Park. Local residents raised funds and rebuilt the eastern span and from the ruins and the bridge re-opened in 1972.
It is the last remaining example of a Pratt-style three span covered bridge in the United States.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.