Indian Gulch Road interim Bailey Bridge

[Max Rockatansky]

I've had Indian Gulch Road in Mariposa County on my to-do list for quite a while.  Said road is mostly a single lane facility named after a former mining town and used to include a one-lane wooden deck span over Bear Creek which was destroyed in March 2018:

https://www.mariposagazette.com/articles/officials-hope-to-rebuild-indian-gulch-bridge-by-2024/

Unfortunately, I have not been able to track down the construction year for the Indian Gluch Bridge which was washed out in 2018.  The interim span contract went out for bid in 2020 and specified a 180-foot prefabricated steel truss which essentially is a modernized Bailey Bridge design (Page 57).  A permanent span was originally scheduled to be completed in 2024 but that obviously has not come to fruition.

https://www.mariposacounty.org/DocumentCenter/View/85143/Bid-Package---Indian-Gulch-Bridge

The interim bridge at Bear Creek opened in 2021:

https://fb.watch/xl82uYlYn1/

The Mariposa County website isn't very insightful regarding when a permanent structure might be erected at Bear Creek:

https://www.mariposacounty.org/bids.aspx?bidID=56

The resulting structure is a fairly interesting contrast along a one-lane mining era roadway.  I didn't observe any weight capacities listed on Indian Gulch Road itself:

IMG_5658 by Max Rockatansky, on Flickr

IMG_5659 by Max Rockatansky, on Flickr