Adventure 009, Bridge 010 – Wildcat Creek Bridge

Capture California, the Game-2013
Adventure: 009, Bridge 010 – Wildcat Creek Bridge

Team: YOLT
Date: September 28, 2013
Location: Highway One, South of Carmel

Description:
It is so interesting walking the bridges along Highway One. For one, the scenery is top-notch. But even more intersesting is when you look below the bridge. What do you see? Under the Wildcat Creek Historic Bridget, you see, well a creek, meandering through a canyon. Lots of trees, and ocean, and, oh yeah a pool. Like I said, interesting what a short walk across a bridge can bring you.
So a few interesting facts about Wildcat Creek Bridge:

• Location: Monterrey County, just south of Point Lobos (+36.49771, -121.93596 ). There is another bridge in Contra Costa County with the same name.
  
• Built: 1933
  
• Type: Closed-spandrel concrete arch. You might ask, what is a spandrel? It is the triangle area beneath the roads surface and above the arches.
  
• Length: 165', with the longest span being 57.1', width: 34.1'
  
• Bridge ID: CA 44-16
  
• Average daily traffic: 13,000 vehicles
  
• Quirkiness: This is the only pointed-arch spandrel bridge in California.
  
• Quirkiness #2: the spandrels, the space between the curves of the arches, are filled in with rubble and finished with concrete, stone, or a mixture of both