Visiting the Alexandra Bridge - British Columbia Travel

Hey guys we are on the path to see the Alexandra Bridge just outside of Hope BC. It's a historical bridge that dates back I believe all the way to the gold rush era so we're gonna go check that out. Come along with us. The park is just up highway one from Hope on the west side of the highway so you will have to turn left if you're heading up the valley but otherwise make sure you're watching on google it goes by pretty quick. There's a small parking lot, there are picnic tables for you to stop and have lunch, there are some restrooms, and of course the path to the bridge which we're on right now and we're gonna check out. There's a road here and I don't know like left and right. My bet would be down. Bridges cross water and water is down. Pretty good logic. Mel is absolutely terrified of walking on open grates and I didn't say anything. She just started walking across and walked across the entire bridge which is a huge open grate and then got to the other side and said oh my god I just walked over a huge open grate. And now I have to get back so if you have that fear this might not be the activity for you unless you're trying to conquer some fears. All right if you're coming to the Alexandra Bridge I need to make note of footwear so definitely do not wear high heels and if you're bringing your pets you might not want to actually. We just passed a couple with this beautiful bull terrier who had to be carried across the bridge because his feet kept falling kind of sinking through the holes in the grate. If you walk to the far side of the Alexandra Bridge you actually have a really nice view of the Highway 1 bridge just behind me. We're on the path on the other side of the bridge now and we're going to try and get a picture of the bridge from the side if we can. So if you follow the path to the right you'll go up a hill and end up at some train tracks. I think we're going to maybe go the other way to see if we can get a better view of the bridge. Look it's it's Mel the millennial on her phone walking through the park. I'm just kidding. She is looking up some historical facts to tell you all about the park. The original bridge was constructed and in use between 1868 and 1894 at which point it was essentially washed out from some major flooding in the river. It looks like there's a spot where you can go down to the water. It's a bit washed out but we're gonna see what we can do. This isn't this isn't really great for sandals. Back to my back to my whole comments about footwear. All right we've made it almost. We're down beside the river now and got really nice views of both the Alexander bridge and the Highway 1 bridge. The second bridge which is the one you see behind me wasn't constructed until 1926 after World War I in the dawn of the automobile era. It was in use until 1964 at which point Highway 1 which was constructed to come through here essentially just put it out of use. And then Highway 1 bridge is actually now the new Alexander bridge. It is about one mile downstream from the old Alexander bridge and is well much taller than this one. We've come out to another little spot kind of almost under the bridge. Got some really nice views down here too of the old bridge right up behind me and then the new bridge kind of off that way. And look at how fast that water is just rushing by. That's just an immense amount of power. You can see there's like a little whirlpool right there from all the currents. Here's a quick tip for the park. If you're coming back up the road there is actually no sign to tell you to go back up the path that you came down and you may actually continue along the road the whole way which is which is the wrong way. So be sure to watch for the path that you came down on. It's a it gets a little bit because there's multiple paths in and out. We're going this way we can see our truck so we're just going to go straight for it. We don't recommend taking the little path right behind the sign like we did to go back up but we made it back up. Here's a handy little tip if you don't want to get boxed in in a parking lot use a little traffic cone make sure you have enough space to get out. Thanks for joining us as we discovered the Alexander bridge. Yes and if you found this video useful please be sure to give us a like and subscribe and hit that notification bell so you can get more videos just like this one. Thank you very much and in the meantime keep on living the life you've imagined. Hey guys today we are checking out the and it's a historical uh landmark and it's supposed to be a pretty historical very interesting thing to see so of the bridge that goes over highway one. You mean the bridge that is highway one that goes over the river? I'll start that again. So if you follow the track so if you follow the please be sure to give us a like and a subscribe and and that's it it's a uh