{"id":1872,"date":"2023-09-01T11:29:14","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T19:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/23\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2023-09-02T10:50:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:50:35","slug":"twin-bridges-in-1913","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/23\/culture\/twin-bridges-in-1913\/","title":{"rendered":"Twin Bridges in 1913"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>(InEDC) BY Adventures in California History\r\nPublished: 11:29 AM \u00b7 Sep 1, 2023<\/pre>\n<p>The original 1913 alignment of the Lincoln Highway followed old wagon roads, and this was the case here. The Lincoln Highway followed the Swan-Henry toll road, with the addition of two bridges, or &#8220;twin bridges,&#8221; that crossed the American River. The bridges were not side by side, but one went to an island while the other exited the island.<\/p>\n<p><em>This photo is from c. 1913 and shows an auto crossing over one of the &#8220;Twin Bridges.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/F49cgZyaEAIzYmK?format=jpg&amp;name=medium\" width=\"943\" height=\"904\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Today Twin Bridges is a small unincorporated community on U.S. Route 50 near the Desolation Wilderness in El Dorado County, California. It is located 5 miles west of Echo Summit, at an elevation of 6,115 feet (1,864 m). It has a population of 14 people according to census figures, however, as of 2008, the road sign lists the population as 10.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Right after the town Westbound, the U.S. 50 eastbound starts a steep ascent to Echo Summit, passing Sierra-at-Tahoe [Sierra Ski Ranch] ski resort shortly before the summit.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Edelweiss ski area was located in US Hwy. 50 above Twin Bridges.\u00a0 It is near an area called Camp Sacramento.\u00a0 It had one chairlift.<\/div>\n<div>Edelweiss closed in the early 60&#8217;s.\u00a0 It is now used as a snow-play area.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20091026064853im_\/http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/welsap\/Edelweiss-1.JPG\" width=\"288\" height=\"216\" \/><\/div>\n<div><em>As you can see, it is mostly overgrown now.\u00a0 The old lift line is visible at the top of the hill.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>When snow chains are required on the summit, Caltrans often establishes chain control in Twin Bridges. It is likely because of the limited availability of shoulders where chains can be installed on summit approaches.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This photo is from c. 1913 and shows an auto crossing over one of the &#8220;Twin Bridges.&#8221; The Bridges were not side by side, one went to an island while the other exited the island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"7","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"0","layout":"no-sidebar-narrow","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"float","share_float_style":"share-normal","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Twin Bridges in 1913 - Placerville NewsWire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/23\/culture\/twin-bridges-in-1913\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Twin Bridges in 1913 - Placerville NewsWire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This photo is from c. 1913 and shows an auto crossing over one of the &quot;Twin Bridges.&quot; 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