Indian Gulch Road (Mariposa County)

[Max Rockatansky]

Indian Gulch Road is an approximately nine-mile rural highway corridor located in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Mariposa County.  This corridor begins at California State Route 140 near Catheys Valley and extends north to Hornitos Road via Bear Creek.  Indian Gulch Road is named after the former Gold Rush era community of Indian Gulch which was settled near Santa Cruz Mountain in 1849. 

Much of Indian Gulch Road is comprised of a single lane of heavily eroded asphalt.  The roadway was mostly known for the wooden deck Bear Creek Bridge which was destroyed by flooding during March 2018.  Mariposa County opted to replace the wooden structure with an interim Bailey Bridge design which was opened to traffic in April 2021. 

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