• Highway 162 to Dos Rios - Longvale CA
    In the early 1940s, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) built the 16 mile stretch of State Highway 162 between Longvale and Dos Rios, also known as Covelo Road.  Records indicate that there were 10 bridges on that stretch of road, but we count only 6 crossings of rivers and creeks. The road was dedicated on April 4, 1942 and the celebratory parade gives an idea of how important that road and its bridges were to isolated communities like Longvale, Farley and Dos Rios at the time. Highway 162 still looks much that same as it would have in the 1940s, a relatively narrow...