Drawbridge Town Site, California

Located on Station Island, among the salt ponds, along the railroad tracks, lies the fabled town of Drawbridge, a former railroad town, which became a fishing and shrimping community. The last resident left in 1979, and Drawbridge is now a collection of crumbling shacks, next to an old drawbridge - all of which are slowly sinking into the surrounding salt marshes. Station Island itself became part of the San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge in 1972.