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Sheep Pen Creek Covered Bridge

Covered bridge · Del Norte County, California

48' 1972 ARCH OVER SHEEP PEN CREEK JUST BEFORE IT ENTERS SMITH RIVER, in Del Norte County, California, USA. See here for more information
48' 1972 ARCH OVER SHEEP PEN CREEK JUST BEFORE IT ENTERS SMITH RIVER, in Del Norte County, California, USA. See here for more information · JERRYE AND ROY KLOTZ MD / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0

Sheep Pen Creek Covered Bridge is a covered bridge in Del Norte County, California, described in its record as Del Norte County, California, United States. California has 13 covered bridges on record at Wayfarrow.

It is about 48 feet long (6th longest of 6 measured in California).

Status check, 2026-11: This is a modern covered timber-stringer road bridge on Douglas Park Road near Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, not a historic truss; sources give 1972 or 1975 as the build year. It stands at 41.7882° N, 124.0556° W.

Key facts

Length48 ft
Coordinates41.78824, -124.05559

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Facts marked "approximately" carry an uncertain date in the source. Text on this page is generated from the sources above; no encyclopedia prose is copied. Last updated 2026-11-05.