Cloverdale Depot

Cloverdale Depot is a bus station and future intermodal station in Cloverdale, California. It is served by Amtrak Thruway 7 and Sonoma County Transit^[2] buses. Additional service to Sonoma County Airport station is provided by Sonoma County Transit under contract by Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit.^[2]

Cloverdale
Cloverdale Depot in July 2022
General information
Location	501 Asti Road Cloverdale, California
Coordinates	38.7985°N 123.0119°W / 38.7985; -123.0119
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	1
Connections	Amtrak Thruway 7 Sonoma County Transit
Construction
Parking	Yes
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Station code	SMART: CLO Amtrak: CLV
History
Opened	1997 (1997) (bus)
Future services
Preceding station SMART Following station Terminus Future service Healdsburg toward Larkspur
Cloverdale Railroad Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Railroad Avenue Cloverdale, California
Coordinates	38°48′14″N 123°00′41″W
Area	0.2 acres (0.081 ha)
Demolished	September 1991
NRHP reference No.	76000536[1]
Added to NRHP	December 12, 1976
Location

History

A rail station previously served Cloverdale along the original Northwestern Pacific Railroad, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 as Cloverdale Railroad Station. Train service began in 1872; the station was 82.5 by 32.3 feet (25.1 m × 9.8 m) in plan, of a "never numerous" but important rural railroad station type.^[3] Passenger service ended in 1958. As part of the project to reroute U.S. Route 101 on a bypass around Cloverdale, the disused station building had been planned to be relocated and used as a railway museum.^[4] That station, however, was destroyed in a fire on September 21, 1991.^[5][4]

The unused rail platform in 2022

With the anticipation of future rail service, the city sought to construct a new facility to serve its public transit needs.^[6] The bus bays and park and ride lot were completed in 1997.^[7] The new station building was constructed the following year,^[8] being dedicated on May 15, 1999.^[9] Construction costs amounted to $1.9 million (equivalent to $3.81 million in 2024 adjusted for inflation),^[10] accumulated from local, state, and federal sources.^[6] The new facility served as a bus station, and the Northwestern Pacific Railroad would go on to move their corporate offices into the new building,^[11] but the initiation of new rail service stalled.

The depot must legally serve as the northern terminus of the Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit main line.^{[citation needed]} It is expected open to passenger trains after further phases of construction. The 2018 California State Rail Plan called for the station to see SMART service by 2027.^[12]