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The four-lane bridge spans the North Fork of the American River in Placer County between the city of Auburn and the town of Foresthill in the Sierra Nevada foothills. [2] Pedestrians can walk the length of the bridge in both directions. There was anti-Auburn Dam graffiti, showing protest of the planned dam, on the bridge's underside.
The Secret Ravine post office opened in 1854, changed its name to Auburn Station for a period in 1863 before changing back, and closed finally in 1868. [1] Auburn Station was the Eastern Terminus of the Sacramento, Placer and Nevada Railroad, that town was active 1861 through 1863, at which time the railroad ceased to exist, the result being ...
Secret Ravine Road, in an unincorporated area east of Loomis; Secret Ravine School, Newcastle, California; Secret Ravine Vineyard and Winery, in Loomis [3] Secret Ravine Way, in Rocklin; NOTE: A second Secret Ravine, also in Placer County, flows into the North Fork of the American River near Colfax. It was alternatively called Robbers Ravine. [4]
The area soon developed into a mining camp, and it was officially named Auburn in August 1849, by miners from Auburn, New York. [12] By 1850, the town's population had grown to about 1,500 people, and in 1851, Auburn was chosen as the seat of Placer County. Gold mining operations moved up the ravine to the site of present-day Auburn.
A ravine is a landform that is narrower than a canyon and is often the product of streambank erosion. Ravines are typically classified as larger in scale than gullies, although smaller than valleys. [1] Ravines may also be called a cleuch, dell, ghout , gill or ghyll, glen, gorge, kloof (South Africa), and chine (Isle of Wight)
Upstream of the dam site, Auburn-Foresthill Road – one of the only all-weather thoroughfares of the region – would be inundated by the proposed reservoir. In preparation for the reservoir's filling, it was rerouted over a three-span, 2,428-foot (740 m)-long truss bridge rising 730 feet (220 m) above the river. [13]
A valley is an elongated low area often running between hills or mountains and typically containing a river or stream running from one end to the other. Most valleys are formed by erosion of the land surface by rivers or streams over a very long period. Some valleys are formed through erosion by glacial ice. These glaciers may remain present in ...
Gallatin Road in Pico Rivera: Foothill Road in Pasadena: 1964: current Signed as part of SR 19 except off of I-210. Segment between Grand Avenue in Temple City and I-210 in Pasadena has been relinquished. SR 165: 38.27: 61.59 I-5 near Los Banos: SR 99 in Turlock: 1970: current SR 165 — — I-5 in Los Angeles: SR 60 in Los Angeles: 1964