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Rocky Creek Bridge (California)

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Carries
  
SR 1

Maintained by
  
Caltrans

Opened
  
1932

Location
  
Body of water
  
Rocky Creek

Crosses
  
Rocky Creek

Longest span
  
239 feet (73 m)

Total length
  
151 m

Rocky Creek Bridge (California)

Locale
  
Big SurMonterey County

Design
  
Address
  
Cabrillo Hwy, Carmel-By-The-Sea, CA 93923, USA

Bridge type
  
Arch bridge, Deck arch bridge

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.

References

Rocky Creek Bridge (California) Wikipedia


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