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This is a great location for a picnic during a
temperate weather. Just spread your red checked table cloth on the tailgate of your
pickup, because there are no picnic tables. These pictures were taken in the
Fall of the year, however in season the natural flora and fauna are interesting. The
traffic on the bridge is extremely light but not non existent. Access to the
Colorado River is difficult if possible at all. The river is approximately 75 to 100
feet below. If you take a pair of binoculars you may be able to spy on wild life and
birds along the river bank. The bridge is on a county road. The land
surrounding the river is private property.
Directions: Approximately 18 miles west of Goldthwaite,
Texas on Highway 574. Turn south on the Regency county road. Travel about 3.5
miles to the bridge.
If you picnic be sure and pack out your trash.
"Don't Mess with Texas"
Texas Bob |
Historical Marker
This areas first Colorado bridge was at Regency, on
the Mills-San Saba County line. Built 1903, it served ranchers and farmers for going
to market, but fell in 1924, killed a boy, a horse and some cattle. It's successor
was demolished by a 1936 flood. With 9o per cent of the work done by hand by hand
labor, the Regency suspension bridge was erected in 1939. It became the pride of the
locality, and youths gathered there in 1940's to picnic, dance, and sing. Bypassed
by paved farm roads it now survives as one of the last suspension bridges in Texas. (Historical
Marker located at the intersection of US 183 and FM 574, Goldthwaite, Texas) |
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