Bruce Road is a shorter road in Chico that serves an important purpose connecting various parts of the two together in an alternative route to Highway 99 or Cohasset Road/Mangrove. The road beings at the end of Manzanita Avenue/Chico Canyon Road at the corner of East 8th Street and California Park Drive. The road ends at Skyway.

The route is important because it provides access to North Chico by way of Manzanita Avenue which becomes East Avenue, South Chico at the Skyway, as well as Highway 32, East 20th Street and Humboldt Road.

There are also quite a few geocaches along this route and it provides easy access to Lower Bidwell Park by way of East 8th Steet.