The receding water level at Folsom Lake has revealed a glimpse once again of what once was but is no more.
This past weekend, the water dropped low enough at Folsom Lake that a Placer County sheriff’s deputy noticed the Old Salmon Falls Bridge, which is typically submerged.
The old Salmon Falls bridge usually comes out when the water in the Folsom Reservoir drops below 400 feet in elevation according to California State Parks.
The concrete bridge was used to connect the old gold mining town of Salmon Falls, originally built in 1925. The bridge was submerged sometime between 1955 and 1956 and is now a California registered historical landmark.
The bridge joins a number of historical landmarks that have at certain times resurfaced in years of drought as the lake ebbed and flowed.
We went out to the bridge with Roberta Long with the Folsom Historical society.
Currently there is not much left Salmon falls aside from two bridges, a bridge foundation, a concrete building foundation, and a concrete flume frame.
"Salmon Falls was one of the first mining camps to be established after the discovery of golf at Marshall Park," says Long.
We also met people who were there to look at the bridge too.
"This is my fourth time coming but me being me I love seeing old ghost towns, old gold rush towns," says Richard Davis, Citrus Heights resident.