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McLeod (McCloud) Bridge; 12-1911. Bridge was located near Crowfoot Road and Highway 62, near Casey State Park. Bridge was named for Bill McLeod, a Forest Service cook who opened a stopping place for tourists that took his name in about 1912. The bridge became a connecting road for the Laurelhurst Road and the later Crowfoot Road until it was wiped out in the flood of 1964.Laurelhurst boasted a bridge even before McLeod came on the scene. Peyton Covered Bridge was built in 1899. It linked the eastern end of Laurelhurst Road with Fort Military Road, a forerunner of Highway 62, on the west side of the river. The area around the bridge became Laurelhurst State Park. (source http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19920315&slug=1.... Also book, Laurelhurst,  Lost Community of the Upper Rogue (SOHS copy, 979.528 W43)