The Kettle Valley Railway was built between 1910 and 1915.    By 1916 trains were hauling freight, connecting the Kootenays with the CPR at Hope, with a number of side branches to mines and other communities.    A number of challenges were met by Chief Engineer Andrew McCullough to keep the railway grade reasonable through mountainous terrain.   The railway lines were closed in 1961, and now parts of the route are in use as recreational trails.   Some of the impressive structures on the route included the Myra Trestles, the Othello-Quintette Tunnels, and some steel trestles along the line.    One of the trestles is accessible from the Coquihalla Highway by a short, rough trail.   There is a small pullout off the Coquihalla if heading west, but care must be taken if slowing down for the pullout.    I have done that, keeping the traffic behind in sight and using my turn signal early.    I have also turned at the Carolin Mine Road and I then drove up the side road heading east for 2.5 km, turning up under the highway at Ladner Creek.

The hike is about 1 km.    Hikers first come to the abandoned Kettle Valley Ladner Tunnel.

After the tunnel, the trail is a rougher single track and ends at the trestle.

It was possible to walk across the trestle (I did it once), but the wooden cross beams rotted, then a human-caused  fire (a tossed cigarette) in 2018 burned much of the wood in the structure.   The area is now fenced-off. 

The short hike to the trestle and back (2 km) is still worth a stop on the way to the Coast.    It can be combined with another stop not far to the west – the Othello-Quintette Tunnels, now reopened.