Rocky Creek Bridge - Highway No. 1

Rocky Creek Bridge - Highway No. 1

Auf dem Weg nach Monterey kommt man über zwei wunderschöne Brücken. Hier die Rocky Creek Bridge.

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Zum Hintergrund der Brück aus Wikipedia.org::
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Rocky Creek Bridge is a reinforced concrete open-spandrel arch bridge in California, built in 1932. It is located in Monterey County a few miles south of Carmel-by-the-Sea and just north of the more famous Bixby Creek Arch Bridge on the Pacific Coast Highway. As its name implies, it spans the Rocky Creek. A carpark exists to the North-West of the bridge, for tourist use.

The vicinity ecology is noteworthy in that the marine waters at the mouth of Rocky Creek are a habitat for the endangered southern Sea otter. Additionally on a ridge above Rocky Creek is one of the few known habitats of Yadon's piperia, a USA rare and endangered species.