The most southern trestle on the Southern Pacific Mountain Route and also the shortest, the
Golf Club Drive Trestle is located south of
Golf Links and crosses over the similarly-named road that once connected Highway 9 with the old Casa del Rey Golf Club clubhouse. It is a simple redwood trestle bridging a gully that was created when the original Santa Cruz & Felton Railroad's fill was bored to create the road to the clubhouse. It was probably built around 1912 as a broad gauge trestle when Fred Swanton built his venture on the property now known as Pogonip County Park.
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| The trestle on a rainy day, facing under the trestle westward. |
The trestle is in constant seasonal use with Roaring Camp Railroads' Santa Cruz Big Tress & Pacific Railroad diesel engines hauling excursion trains across the trestle as many as eight times a day in the summer. Because of that, and despite its age, the trestle is kept in good repair. Roaring Camp has owned the right-of-way, including the trestle, since 1985 when they purchased it from the Southern Pacific Railroad.
