Brush Creek Bridge

Cajon Blvd., Cajon Pass, CA
Phone:

East < GO > West

Leave I-15 at exit 129 onto Cleghorn Rd, turn right and then curve left onto Cajon Boulevard and almost immediately you cross the 1930 Brush Creek Bridge. The bridge is 61 feet long and a tad over 34 feet wide, the three spans are about 20 feet each. The 1930 date can be seen in one of the railing end caps.

GPS: 34.296205, -117.458045

The date is stamped in the concert on the left side, northern end of bridge.

Cajon Blvd. also goes north for a few hundred feet and while there is nothing left to see there the Cajon Depot for the railroad was located there from 1885 to 1961. The depot, demolished in 1962, was about where the paved road dead ends now. There was a passenger depot here, a freight depot, a water tank and some kind of housing for railroad workers. From 1889 to 1944 there was even post office here. No trace of any of that still exists as far as I can tell.

Taking that short section of the old road brings you to a paved turn around at the end of the old road, and this sign off to the right. It's a little hard to read through the rust spots and graffiti, but it says ...

"NO TARGET SHOOTING
STREET LEGAL VEHICLE'S ONLY
NO VEHICLE)'S OFF ROADS"

There is a dirt road that continues past the turn around and crosses the train tracks, it's not related ti Route 66.

Photo(s): 2015, 2019