Locust Creek Covered Bridge By Smorkle (Read 632 times)

[Smorkle]

My little woman and I took a ride Sunday (10/3) to the Locust Creek Covered Bridge state historic site. This place is really cool. The bridge was built in the 1860's and used to cross Locust Creek before the creek was rerouted. The road too was rerouted and now this bridge sits in the middle of the woods as a testament to the way things once were.

It's a nice ride up, but the actual road out to the bridge is gravel, but well maintained. It is only about a mile and a half. I had no trouble riding it slowly. At the end of the road there is a place to park and then an easy ¼ mile walk to the bridge itself. There are no restrooms at the site.



All of my pics from this trip can be found at my facebook photo page: www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=234568&id=568009226&l=04c0ce226a

Info about the bridge (and 3 others similar to it) can be found here: www.mostateparks.com/locustbridge.htm

A map of how we went is here: maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&vps=1&jsv=282d&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=109748207347256256451.000491be314720b418e79&mid=1286333020

[Bashan]

Great post Smorkle, thanks. That's eerie that the creek AND road were rereouted, kinda left that bridge out hanging out to dry. What kind of camera do you use? Rich

[Smorkle]

All of these pics were taken with my cell phone camera. My old digital camera gave up the ghost when I left it sitting on my scooter overnight at the STO the night it poured rain. C'est la vie.