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Tenaya Creek Bridge
Description
Like other road bridges in Yosemite Valley, the Tenaya Creek Bridge exemplifies the National Park Service "rustic style" of architecture through its use of a stone veneer to conceal its reinforced concrete construction.
-- Historic American Engineering Record
Facts
- Overview
- Concrete arch bridge over Tenaya Creek on Trail
- Location
- Mariposa County, California
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1928
- Builders
- - George D. Whittle (Engineer - Buearu of Public Roads)
- Rocca & Caletti of San Francisco, California. (Contractor)
- Design
- Closed spandrel arch with stone facade
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 56.8 ft.
Total length: 95.0 ft.
Deck width: 42.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +37.74190, -119.55803 (decimal degrees)
37°44'31" N, 119°33'29" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 11/274607/4180259 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Half Dome
- Inventory number
- BH 11115 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of July 2018)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 70 (out of 100)
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Update Log
- February 2, 2012: HAER photos posted by Michael Goff
Sources
- HAER CA-98 - Tenaya Creek Bridge, Spanning Tenaya Creek on Mirror Lake Road, Yosemite Village, Mariposa County, CA