Goat Canyon Trestle: San Diego's Ultimate Desert Adventure
Soaring 186 feet above the Carrizo Gorge in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park: the Goat Canyon Trestle is the world’s largest freestanding timber railroad bridge, hand-built from virgin California redwood in 1933. Scramble over the granite boulder fields and dry arroyos of the Jacumba Wilderness on a cool winter morning, and the vast desert badlands seem utterly untouched by modern civilization. Then, cresting a steep, scree-covered ridge overlooking the sheer precipice of the Carrizo Gorge, the landscape reveals an astonishing sight: a colossal wooden leviathan spanning the chasm. Rising nearly two hundred feet above the canyon floor and curving 633 feet through empty air, this is the Goat Canyon Trestle . It is the largest freestanding timber railroad bridge on planet Earth. Built during the depths of the Great Depression with massive beams of virgin California redwood, this desert monument stands as the defining engineering triumph of the legendary "Impossible Railroad....