Carries SR 1 Maintained by Caltrans Opened 1932 Body of water Rocky Creek | Crosses Rocky Creek Longest span 239 feet (73 m) Total length 151 m | |
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Locale Big SurMonterey County Similar Bixby Creek Bridge, Point Sur State Historic P, McWay Falls, Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park, Andrew Molera State Park |
Rocky Creek Bridge is a reinforced concrete open-spandrel arch bridge in California, built in 1932. It is located in Monterey County a few miles south of Carmel-by-the-Sea and just north of the more famous Bixby Creek Bridge on the Pacific Coast Highway. As its name implies, it spans the Rocky Creek. A turnout with limited parking space exists to the northwest of the bridge, for tourist use.
The vicinity ecology is noteworthy in that the marine waters at the mouth of Rocky Creek are a habitat for the endangered southern sea otter, E. l. nereis. Additionally, on a ridge above Rocky Creek is one of the few known habitats of Yadon's piperia, a North American rare and endangered species of orchid.
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Rocky Creek Bridge (California) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA