![]() I found them while I was culling junk and duplicates from my photo library, and liked them enough to share them now. Situated in beautiful Central Pennsylvania at the Bloomsburg Fairgrounds, the 41st Annual Covered Bridge & Arts Festival will have something for everyone The Festival is one of the largest craft festivals on the East Coast, and four-day annual attendance is typically near 150,000 visitors. A view with bridge - XXI Century, Oil Landscape Painting, Colourful, Nature. Marysville & Union County Convention & Visitors Bureau. (Crossing Over), Lee Tiller, Original Landscape Painting, 2021. This modern-day covered bridge is much different from its predecessor. We went at least once a year while they were still growing up. Shop our covered bridge paintings selection from top sellers and makers around the world. I made these photos in 2011 on a trip to Turkey Run with my sons. The trails give you these lovely side views of the bridge. If you’re interested in seeing this bridge, you can get there from Narrows Road of course, or by hiking Trails 1 or 2 inside Turkey Run. They became all the rage at about this time and are the main kind of bridge built in the US today. I’m surprised a common steel beam bridge wasn’t built here then. It came at the very tail end of the concrete arch era. Perhaps both bridges carried traffic during those eight years.ġ958 is mighty late for a concrete arch bridge to be built in Indiana. says that the concrete arch bridge was built in 1958, while the Indiana Covered Bridge Society says that the covered bridge was bypassed in 1966. Although it is the shortest covered bridge in Maine (70 feet), it does not lack charm. If you look hard, you can see those curved Burr arches jutting out and into the rock on the far end of the bridge.Ī concrete arch bridge carries Narrows Road today. ![]() It’s easy to get underneath this wooden bridge, as a rocky path passes beneath it on its north side. I did it once with my sons, and except for the fact that my sons weren’t interested in helping paddle, it was fun. If you’re ever out this way, you can rent a canoe and paddle through Turkey Run on the creek. The bridge spans Sugar Creek where it narrows, hence the name of both the bridge and the road. Those giant curved members are the Burr arches. Like most of Parke County’s covered bridges, it features a Burr arch truss design. Britton’s many covered bridges in the county. The Narrows covered bridge was completed in 1882, and is considered the first of J. Within the park, you can hike to one of the covered bridges. People come to Parke County, Indiana, for two main reasons: to see the many covered bridges there, and to hike over the hills and through the canyons in Turkey Run State Park.
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