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Angeles Crest Highway Slide Canyon Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Concrete arch bridge over Slide Canyon on CA 2 in Angeles National Forrest
- Location
- Los Angeles County, California
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1931
- Design
- Open-spandrel concrete arch
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 100.1 ft.
Total length: 181.1 ft.
Deck width: 34.1 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +34.24333, -118.19000 (decimal degrees)
34°14'36" N, 118°11'24" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 11/390417/3789777 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Pasadena
- Average daily traffic (as of 2014)
- 3,700
- Inventory numbers
- CA 53-63 (California bridge number)
BH 11046 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of January 2018)
- Overall condition: Good
Superstructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 84 (out of 100)
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Update Log
- January 6, 2011: New Street View added by David Kimbrough
- November 3, 2008: New photo from David Kimbrough
- October 20, 2008: New photos from David Kimbrough
- July 8, 2008: Updated by David Kimbrough
- June 21, 2008: Updated by David Kimbrough
Sources
- David Kimbrough - kimbrough-photo [at] charter [dot] net
Comments
Slide Canyon Bridge
This is a rather short bridge but only because slide canyon is not very wide. It is not really even a canyon, more like a big scar on the side of the mountatin. It drops down at something like 45o. The side of the mountain is pretty step any way but that cut makes it impassible without this bridge.
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My father's company, T. M. Morgan Paving Co., was the general contractor on this section of the highway. I believe the bridge was subcontracted to one of his nephews, E. Thomas.
I have a reduced copy of the original plans for the highway and the bridge.
I also have an album of photographs taken by a professional photographer and sold to people attending the opening of the highway.
Thomas Morgan, Civil Engineer, Ventura County Public Works
August 9, 2008