Detour available via Silver Springs Parkway & Green Valley Road
El Dorado County has announced the planned closure of Bass Lake Road at the new Silver Springs Parkway intersection just north of Madera Way in El Dorado Hills, beginning April 13, 2021, and will last through mid June 2021.
The closure will be in place between the new Silver Springs Parkway connection at the 25 MPH curve on Bass Lake Rd (Sandhurst Hill Rd) east to Magnolia Hills Drive.
On April 13th, crews from Granite Construction will spend the day paving the the new Silver Springs Parkway connection to Bass Lake Road – when the paving activity is completed on April13th, Silver Springs Parkway will be opened to motorists between Madera Way and Green Valley Road. This is the planned Detour route while Bass Lake Road is closed.
Per El Dorado County Department of Transportation, residents and motorists should expect significant and long delays on Bass Lake Road on April 13th, while the paving work is completed.
Planned Detour Route in Green – Bass Lake Road closure in Red
While Bass Lake Road is closed from Silver Springs Parkway to Magnolia Hills Drive, construction crews will realign Bass Lake Road and construct an ADA compliant sidewalk and crosswalks on Bass Lake Road at the new intersection. Southbound Bass Lake Road will be constructed with left and right turn lanes – the left lane will be for motorists traveling south on Bass Lake Road towards US50, the right turn lane will allow motorists to continue north onto Silver Springs Parkway, towards Green Valley Road. Northbound Bass Lake Road at the new Silver Springs intersection will feature a straight through lane to continue north on Silver Springs Parkway towards Green Valley Road, as well as a right turn pocket for motorists to continue north on Bass Lake Road towards Magnolia Hills Drive, Woodleigh Lane, Gateway Drive, Lambeth Drive, Parkdale Lane, Foxmore Lane, and Green Valley Road.
Silver Springs Parkway will be a divided two lane roadway, with sidewalks and bicycle lanes.
The new Bass Lake Road-Silver Springs Parkway intersection will be a three-way stop sign controlled intersection.
Changeable Portable Reader Board signage will be in place to advise motorists of changing conditions and delays. Currently the changeable portable reader boards indicate that the closure is expected to be in place from April 13th through June 11th – the completion date is subject to change due to weather delays, and possible utility relocation delays from PG&E and AT&T.
El Dorado County has issued a press release with details of the fifth, and final, detour of Bass Lake Road for the Country Club Drive-Bass Lake Road realignment and signalization project.
The final detour will begin the morning of Tuesday September 29th, at 6:00AM and is scheduled to continue through Wednesday September 30th.
This detour will allow for the final paving activities on the new segment of Bass Lake Road, and matching the pavement sections to the west bound Bass Lake Road on and off ramps at the US50 Interchange.
Close up view of planned Bass Lake Road PHASE 5 Detour routes – Tierra de Dios Drive to Morrison Road to Hollow Oak Drive. Construction areas in RED are closed, including the US50 west bound on and off ramps.
Bass Lake Road will be closed from US50 north to the new Country Club Drive intersection (shown red on the detour map above). Motorists traveling south on Bass Lake Road will NOT be able to access the US50 interchange. Instead motorists on Bass Lake Road should use Serrano Parkway to Silva Valley Parkway to US50, or use the planned detour route of Hollow Oak Drive to the NEW Morrison Road to Tierra De Dios to Country Club Drive to Cambridge Drive Shown in Yellow on the map above, and below.
Bass Lake Road PHASE 5 Detour Routes – East Bound US50 On and Off Ramps are open to Bass Lake Road and Marble Valley Road traffic SOUTH of US50.
Bass Lake Road will be open to the El Dorado Hills Fire Station 86, as well as to private driveways north of the construction site at the NEW Country Club Drive intersection.
The US50 on and off ramps at the Bass Lake Road Interchange will remain open for motorists traveling on the south side of US 50 along Marble Valley Road.
The Bass Lake Action Committee would remind drivers to exercise caution in the construction areas, as well as at the Bass Lake Road – Hollow Oak Drive intersection, which has very poor sight-lines.
El Dorado County Issues Phase 4 Country Club Drive Detour Press Release
Beginning Friday, September 11th at 6:00 a.m. Vehicles will be directed around the intersection utilizing Bass Lake Road, New Country Club Drive, Cambridge Road, and Highway 50 from Friday, September 11th through Monday, September, 28th.
Country Club Drive from Tierra De Dios Drive to Bass Lake Road will be CLOSED.
Tierra De Dios Drive from Country Club Drive to Holy Trinity Catholic Church will be CLOSED.
To access Country Club Drive and the BAR J neighborhoods, Bass Lake Motorists and HWY50 Motorists will have to USE HWY50 EAST and exit at Cambridge Road.
BAR J neighborhood residents in Cameron Park, and other local neighborhoods WILL NOT be able to access either Bass Lake Road, or Tierra De Dios Road from Country Club Drive – this includes neighborhoods from:
El Norte Rd
Trinidad Dr
Merrychase Dr
Castana Dr
Placitas Dr
Knollwood Dr
To access HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, motorists will have to travel on Bass Lake Road, travel north to the NEW COUNTRY CLUB DRIVE intersection, and then travel on NEW COUNTRY CLUB DRIVE to Holy Trinity.
Initial activities include one way traffic controls
Construction of the long planned Southern connection of Silver Springs Parkway to Bass Lake Road at the 25 MPH curve between Madera Way and Magnolia Hills Drive is set to begin on Thursday September 3rd.
The northern segment of Silver Springs Parkway was constructed in 2014. It comes in at just 500 feet short of a mile. The project has been known as the “new Bass Lake Road” as far back as the late 1980s and into the mid 1990s. It is a road segment that connects Bass Lake Road, north to Green Valley Road, just to the east of Pleasant Grove Middle School in Rescue. Silver Springs Parkway will serve the 234 home Silver Springs residential development, with it’s initial subdivision, REVERE, under construction now. The 2014 Project constructed the northern segment of Silver Springs Parkway, including a traffic signal at the Silver Springs Parkway – Green Valley Road intersection, and also improved the (western) Deer Valley Road – Green Valley Road intersection with turn pockets and left turn lanes.
Google Satellite view Silver Springs Parkway Northern Segment
El Dorado County Department of Transportation Details
The El Dorado County Department of Transportation provided the following details about the construction timelines, and possible impacts for motorists on Bass Lake Road.
There will be reversing controls (alternating one-way traffic) on Bass Lake Road on Thursday, September 3. Granite Construction will be performing small excavations to positively determine the locations of some EID underground facilities prior to the start of construction.
Construction will start in full on Tuesday, September 8. At this point, Granite Construction does not see a need to implement reversing controls on Bass Lake Road on a regular basis during the rest of the 2020 construction season. Most of the 2020 work will take place off road, north of the 25 mph curve in the woods between the curve and current southerly terminus of Silver Springs. There will be reversing controls on Bass Lake from time to time, but it won’t be for weeks on end or anything like that.
In spring 2021, we will be closing Bass Lake between Magnolia Hills and Madera for a couple of months to reconstruct Bass Lake Road just east of the Bass Lake/Silver Springs intersection.The County’s posted detour will send traffic to Green Valley and Silver Springs (which will then be open from Green Valley Road to Bass Lake Road). This presumes, of course, that Granite Construction is successful in completing the work they have planned for 2020 without utility relocation delays or non-climatic weather delays.
Silver Springs Parkway – Bass Lake Road, Spring 2021 Detour Plan – Bass Lake Road CLOSED at Madera Way in the south, and at Magnolia Hills Drive in the north. CLICK to view PDF FILE.
Safety And Circulation Improvements Will Finally Arrive For Area Residents
When completed, the planned Silver Springs Parkway – Bass Lake Road intersection will be a three-way stop, controlled with stop signs. Motorists traveling north on Bass Lake Road that wish to continue on Bass Lake Road towards Magnolia Hills Drive, Woodleigh Lane, Gateway Drive, Parkdale Lane, Green Valley Elementary School, and Foxmore Lane, will need to complete a right turn movement in the newly constructed right turn lane at the new intersection. Likewise, motorists traveling south on Bass Lake road approaching the new intersection, will need to complete either a left turn to continue south on Bass Lake Road, or a right turn to proceed north on Silver Springs Parkway.
Included in designs presented at a Bass Lake Action Committee Meeting in September 2017 are a right turn pocket on northbound Bass Lake Road onto Madera Way. The Design images also suggest a four-foot bicycle lane from Madera Way north to Silver Springs Parkway. Included in these drawings are what appear to be partial sidewalks at the new intersection. The Northern Section of Silver Springs Parkway has bicycle lanes and sidewalks on both the west and east sides of the roadway. The Southern extension is expected to continue the bicycle and sidewalk facilities.
Detail of designs presented at a Bass Lake Action Committee in September 2017
Close up of lane configurations of the new Bass Lake Road – Silver Springs Parkway Intersection as presented at the September 2017 Bass Lake Action Committee Meeting. Designs suggest a 4 foot bicycle lane on either side of Bass Lake Road (partial) and a small section of sidewalk from Madera Way north to Silver Springs Parkway.
Design includes a right turn pocket on Bass Lake Road to Madera Way
Project Costs Over Time Have Only Grown
The Southern Extension of Silver Springs Parkway project was listed in the 2010 El Dorado County Capital Improvement Program (CIP) as a $6.374 Million project. In subsequent years the project costs have grown – exploding to an $11.478 Million project in the 2020 El Dorado County Capital Improvement Program.
YEAR
El Dorado CIP Projected CostsSilver Springs Parkway South SegmentProject 76108 / 36105039
El Dorado County Department of Transportation issued two press releases on August 25, 2020 regarding detours for ongoing construction activities for the new, realigned Bass Lake Road – Country Club Drive intersection.
Bass Lake Road FRIDAY AUG 28th DETOUR 6AM – 6PM
The first press release was to inform residents that a new detour will be in effect Friday morning August 28th beginning at 6AM. The new detour will route traffic on Bass Lake Road onto Hollow Oak Drive, to the NEW Morrison Road, taking drivers to Tierra de Dios Drive, where the detour will end at Country Club Drive. This Detour will last until the evening of Friday August 28th at 6PM, for a total of 12 hours.
The 12 hour detour will allow construction work to finish paving the new Bass Lake Road alignment. When the detour ends at 6PM, there will normal two way traffic on Bass Lake Road from the US50 Bass Lake Road Interchange in the south, all they way to Green Valley Road in the north.
August 28th 6AM to 6PM BASS LAKE ROAD CLOSED Image Courtesy of El Dorado County
August 28th 6AM – 6 PM Bass Lake Road CLOSED – in Blue DETOUR Route in Red
Country Club Drive DETOUR FRIDAY AUG 28th 6PM to SEPT 14th
The Second Press Release informed residents that after the 12 hour paving detour on Bass Lake Road is completed at 6PM on Friday August 28th, resulting in Bass Lake Road being open to two way traffic, that Country Club Drive from Bass Lake Road east to Tierra De Dios Drive will close through September 14th. The new detour route will have drivers on Country Club Drive travel on Tierra De Dios Drive to the NEW Morrison Road, taking drivers to Hollow Oak Drive, and back down to Bass Lake Road near El Dorado Hills Fire Station 86.
This Detour will allow construction on the new Country Club Drive road segment to be completed, along with demolition of the temporary detour road motorists have been using since May 1, 2020.
The existing Country Club Drive road segment between Bass Lake Road at US50 and Tierra De Dios Drive will be converted to a bicycle route, and closed to vehicles.
Motorists traveling on Country Club Drive that wish to use either the Bass Lake Road – US50 Interchange, or to travel north on Bass Lake Road will be required to use the Tierra De Dios-Morrison-Hollow Oak detour.
August 28th 6PM – Country Club Drive CLOSED between Bass Lake Road and Tierra De Dios Drive Image Courtesy of El Dorado County
EVENING of August 28th 6PM – County Club Drive closed between Bass Lake Road at US50 and Tierra De Dios Drive Access to Bass Lake Road and US50 for motorists on the RED Detour route. On September 14th.
