Discovering San Diego's Historic Spruce Street Suspension Bridge
Suspended 70 feet above Kate Sessions Canyon: the historic 1912 Spruce Street Suspension Bridge in Bankers Hill, where lightweight steel cables and wooden decking sway gently over San Diego's hidden urban canyon. Stroll through the manicured residential avenues of Bankers Hill, past grand Craftsman estates and Victorian facades, and West Spruce Street appears to end like any ordinary dead-end cul-de-sac. Walk to the lip of the asphalt, however, and the road abruptly dissolves into thin air. Stretching 375 feet across a steep, eucalyptus-choked ravine is a delicate, floating ribbon of steel cables, chain-link railings, and wooden timber planks. This is the Spruce Street Suspension Bridge —San Diego’s secret pedestrian skyway. Suspended seventy feet above the floor of Kate Sessions Canyon, this century-old engineering relic is the only historic suspension bridge of its kind in Southern California. Take ten paces onto its weathered deck, and you will immediately feel the str...