South Yuba River State Park
Gold Country & Central Valley
parks
At a glance
- Size
- 8720
- Established
- 1979
parks detail
- Hook
- Emerald swimming holes and the longest single-span covered bridge in the world at Bridgeport
- More
- The 1862 Bridgeport covered bridge, at 229 feet the longest single-span covered bridge surviving anywhere, reopened in 2021 after a painstaking restoration. Summer crowds chase the emerald pools at Highway 49 crossing; the Independence Trail was the nation's first wheelchair-accessible wilderness trail.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 39.2917, -121.1944