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Sanja Cota Road over Sanja De Cota Creek

Santa Barbara County, California · rated Fair in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory

United States Bridge Conditions2025 National Bridge Inventory, FHWACompiled August 20, 2026

Sanja Cota Road over Sanja De Cota Creek in Santa Barbara County, California, is rated in fair condition in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory (as of August 20, 2026).
Its lowest-rated component is the deck, rated 5 (fair condition) on the 0-9 scale.
It was built in 2004, making it 21 years old at the 2025 inventory.
It carries about 3,000 vehicles a day (traffic count year 2007).
Its listed owner is the county highway agency.
It is one of 179 of the 421 inventoried bridges in Santa Barbara County rated fair (42.5%); 16 (3.8%) are rated poor.
A fair rating means the lowest-rated major component scores 5 or 6 on FHWA's 0-9 scale: some deterioration or minor section loss, but the structure is sound. It is the middle class, not a warning.

Component ratings


Structure	Prestressed concrete single box beam
Length	about 96 ft
Location	0.1 Mi S SR246 Off Edison
NBI structure number	51C0354
Condition class	Fair

Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2025 data as reported by the California department of transportation.

Bridge	Built	Vehicles/day	Condition
Hwy 101 NB Rt Lane over Mission Creek	1963	120,000	Good
La Cumbre Road over US Highway 101	1997	110,900	Good
U.S. Highway 101 over Quarantina Street	1990	109,000	Good
U.S. Highway 101 over Calle Cesar Chavez	1990	109,000	Good
U.S. Highway 101 over Chapala St Equalizer	1992	109,000	Good
US Highway 101 over Sycamore Creek	2011	109,000	Fair