by John Elliott
During a recent visit to Three Rivers, Kuyler Crocker, county supervisor for District 1, updated plans for the 2020s to see some huge investment being made in eastern Tulare County. Some of that untold millions of dollars will be spent right here in Three Rivers as first Sequoia National Park rehabs its portion of the Mineral King Road from the park boundary at Lookout Point to the eastern terminus of the roadway in Mineral King. That’s more than 13 miles of one of the most breathtaking and historically significant roads in the Sierra Nevada region. The preliminary studies and survey work for that project have already been completed and reconstruction is expected to begin in 2020.
The National Park Service’s road work will pave the way for the rehabilitation of the historic Oak Grove Bridge, built in 1923. Bids on that work are expected to go out before the end of 2020.
Then it’s Tulare County’s turn to garner the funding to complete the 12-mile portion of Mineral King Road that is the County’s responsibility. As fortune would have it, the County’s portion includes the historic Oak Grove Bridge and is the only vehicle access to the Mineral King area of Sequoia National Park and its unique Mineral King Road Cultural Landscape District.
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