Bridge of the Twenty-Three Camels

Bridge of the Twenty-Three Camels is the official name of the highway bridge over the Fraser River at Lillooet, British Columbia, Canada, on BC Highway 99. It replaced the older 1913-vintage Lillooet Suspension Bridge, just upstream, which had no highway designation but connected the town to BC Highway 12, a designation which today only refers to the Lillooet-Lytton highway but, until the extension of the 99 designation from Pemberton, also included the Lillooet-Cache Creek highway.

Bridge of the Twenty-Three Camels
Coordinates	50°41′02″N 121°55′44″W
Carries	Two lanes of British Columbia Highway 99
Crosses	Fraser River
Locale	Lillooet, British Columbia
Owner	British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure
Characteristics
Total length	341.50 m[1]
No. of spans	5
History
Opened	June 26, 1981
Location

The name references the Cariboo camels imported to the region to haul freight in 1862. As something of a joke on this name, the crossing of the Yalakom River at Moha, a small concrete truss span, sports the sign "Bridge of the Twenty-Three Chipmunks".

The bridge was opened on June 26, 1981 by Transportation and Highways Minister Alex Fraser and Thomas Waterland, Minister of Forests and the MLA for Yale-Lillooet.^[2]

See also

• List of crossings of the Fraser River
• List of bridges in Canada
• Lytton Ferry
• Pavilion Ferry
• Low Bar Ferry
• Cariboo camels