Yellowhead Bridge

The Yellowhead Bridge or the East Kamloops Bridge is a road bridge in Kamloops, British Columbia. It carries Highway 5 over the South Thompson River. It was completed in December of 1968 and has a length of 179.2 metres, not including a preceding railway overhead on the south side of the river.

Photo: Silver Dovelet, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Kamloops station and Overlanders Bridge.

Kamloops station

Railway station

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Kamloops station is a railway station in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. It previously served as the overnight stopover point for the Rocky Mountaineer train service to Jasper and Banff from Vancouver. Kamloops station is situated 2 km west of Yellowhead Bridge.

Overlanders Bridge

Bridge

Photo: Silver Dovelet, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Overlanders Bridge is a bridge that spans the Thompson River in Kamloops, British Columbia. It connects Fortune Drive and Tranquille Road in the north with Victoria Street in the south. Overlanders Bridge is situated 3½ km west of Yellowhead Bridge.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kamloops and North Kamloops.

Kamloops

Photo: cogdog, CC BY 2.0.

Kamloops is a city of 98,000 people in the central interior of British Columbia. It is billed as the Tournament Capital of Canada. It has hosted Strauss Canada Cup of Curling, Skate Canada, World Fly Fishing Championships, Tim Horton's Olympic Qualifying Bike Race, and World Junior Hockey Championships.

North Kamloops

Suburb

Photo: Silver Dovelet, CC BY-SA 3.0.

North Kamloops is a neighbourhood and former town located in the City of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. It is located immediately to the northwest of Downtown Kamloops across the confluence of the North and South Thompson Rivers. North Kamloops is situated 4 km northwest of Yellowhead Bridge.

Knutsford

Suburb

Knutsford is a neighbourhood of the City of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, located on the south side of that city just west of Peterson Creek. It is named for Knutsford, Cheshire, by Robert Longridge, who took up ranching in the area in 1912. Knutsford is situated 6 km south of Yellowhead Bridge.

Yellowhead Bridge

Type: Bridge
Description: bridge in Canada
Category: transportation
Location: Kamloops, Thompson-Nicola, Thompson-Okanagan, British Columbia, Canada, North America
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Latitude

50.67532° or 50° 40′ 31″ north

Longitude

-120.30101° or 120° 18′ 4″ west

Open location code

942XMMGX+4H

OpenStreetMap ID

way 1000348944

OpenStreetMap feature

man_made=bridge

Wikidata ID

Q8051937

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In Other Languages

“Yellowhead Bridge” goes by many names.

Chinese: “耶洛黑德橋 (甘露市)”
Chinese: “耶洛黑德橋”

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Highlights include Tk’emlups Marsh and Fire Hall 3.

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