Big Creek Road (Sierra National Forest Route 9)

[Max Rockatansky]

Big Creek Road is an approximately 19-mile rural highway which is designated as Sierra National Forest Route 9.  Big Creek Road begins at Trimmer Springs Road at the Pine Flat Reservoir.  The mostly unsurfaced corridor follows Forest Roads 10S69 and 10S02 northward through Blue Canyon alongside Big Creek to the site of Bretz Mill.  From Bretz Mill the highway continues westward on a paved portion of Forest Road 10S02 to a terminus located the Fresno County maintained Peterson Road and Cressman Road. 

Bretz Mill is named after Fresno County and Pineridge area pioneer Joseph Simon Bretz.  Much of the corridor of Big Creek passes through property once owned by the Bretz family.  The balance of Big Creek Road was constructed through Blue Canyon by 1936 when a bridge over Big Creek was completed.

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