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Sachin K

New York City, NY6,556 contributions

Spectacular Bridge

Feb 2019 • Family

Big Creek Bridge is a 589 foot long spectacular concrete deck arch bridge located on the southern portion of the Big Sur coast of California, along State Route 1 near Lucia. Certainly worth driving southbound over it and taking a photo stop on it’s southern side after crossing over it.

Written December 8, 2019

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Bonnie C

Corona, CA1,758 contributions

Doing construction on this bridge

Nov 2020 • Couples

We saw it coming from the South and noticed white tarp covering the supports below the highway so you can really see the bridge outside of that. The first big bridge you hit though and it is just outside of Gorda.

Written December 2, 2020

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kamakshi2015

Bengaluru, India1,857 contributions

The point of awesome beauty !

Aug 2019

Com8ng to Big Sur and driving around here we came across this point of the bridge and admired its breath taking beauty . The huge mountains and the ocean on either side of the bridge are awesome beauty .

Written August 26, 2019

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Grisel V

Buenos Aires, Argentina18 contributions

Park and drive carefully

Jun 2019 • Couples

Visitors to this bridge tend to just throw their vehicles on the road... you have to be very careful while driving because the bridge is right after a curve and you just run across the wrongly parked vehicles.

Written July 5, 2019

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lucycan

San Diego, CA3,610 contributions

Gorgeous

Nov 2023 • Family

This is the most beautiful bridge on RT1. Most people are much more aware of the Bixby bridge but this one is way better. Its south of Big Sur.

Written November 29, 2023

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cookpias

Los Angeles, CA1,670 contributions

Stop at the vista point

Sep 2019

Your photo will look like you took it from a drone if you stop just south of the bridge--there is a great view.

Written September 5, 2019

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David H

Union City, CA9,013 contributions

Another Nice Bridge after Bixby Bridge

May 2019 • Couples

No far away (further down South) from Bixby Creek Bridge is this Bridge. The best view is from South end which covers both bridge and surroundings. It’s gorgeous and very magnificent as well. Basically, there are countless great views and vista points on this Route to fully explore Big Sur

Written July 23, 2019

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Steve5863

Avon, OH12,812 contributions

The Bixby Bridge of Central Big Sur

Mar 2019 • Family

While the Bixby Bridge, just a short distance south of Carmel gets all the attention, the Big Creek Bridge, located another 31.4 miles (50.6k) south, near the midway point of the Big Sur Coast, gets little attention despite being similar in design and just as picturesque. From the pullout about 0.5 mile (0.8k) south of the bridge, one gets a view that is a bit more distant but unobstructed with the trace of the PCH clearly visible as winds around the headland hills and then across the bridge over the Big Creek.

Written April 28, 2019

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Staidthere

Jakarta, Indonesia2,621 contributions

Can you spot the bridge in this photo?

Dec 2018 • Couples

As we are driving north on Highway 1, we always look forward to our first sighting of the concrete Big Creek Bridge because it looks to us like an integral part of the hills and coastline. Bends in the road afford several romantic aspects of the repeating arches of the bridge seemingly pressed into the rock of a similar color and the road which passes between the mountain and a giant pointed rock on the ocean side and then disappears around the side of the mountain. Like Hoover dam, the bridge was built as a public works project to generate jobs during the Great Depression. It is not as long or as high as the more popular Bixby Bridge, but it is our favorite because it seems a more graceful part of the lonely coast road.

Written January 8, 2019

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BobandJosie

Reading, UK957 contributions

A real Gem for the Photographer

Sep 2018 • Couples

Driving South we passed over Big Creek Bridge and then parked about half a mile past it. The combination of the view of the Bridge itself and the clear outline of the road beside the mountain really illustrates the marvel that is Highway 1

Written October 18, 2018

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