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The Parke County Covered Bridge Festival is a fall festival which takes place in nine communities in Parke County, Indiana, United States. It celebrates the county's 31 covered bridges, and is attended by more than 2 million people each year. It begins on the second Friday in October and lasts 10 days.
Pike Fork of McElroy Creek Long truss: Dents Run Covered Bridge: Laurel Point, Monongalia County: 1889 40 feet (12 m) Dents Run King post: Fish Creek Covered Bridge aka "Hundred Covered Bridge" Hundred, Wetzel County: 1881, 2001 [4] 30 feet (9.1 m) Fish Creek King post: Fletcher Covered Bridge aka "Ten Mile Creek Covered Bridge" Cutler ...
At one time, as many as 53 covered bridges existed (wholly or in part) in Parke County. Today, 31 of those bridges survive, 10 of which have been closed to vehicle traffic. [2] The Jackson Covered Bridge is the longest single span covered bridge in Indiana. The Portland Mills Covered Bridge is the oldest of the county's covered bridges.
In Mingo Creek Park, spanning Mingo Creek Nottingham Township: Erskine Covered Bridge: TR 314 over Middle Wheeling Creek West Finley Township: Henry Covered Bridge: Spans Mingo Creek in Mingo Creek County Park Nottingham Township: Jackson's Mill Covered Bridge: Northwest of Burgettstown on TR 853 crossing King's Creek Hanover Township: Krepps ...
Three spans, longest covered bridge in the state and, by clear span, is sometimes claimed to be the longest historic covered bridge in the U.S. Closed to all but pedestrian traffic since 1972, and is currently undergoing restoration. Melcher Bridge: Montezuma, Parke County: 1896 83 feet (25 m) Leatherwood Creek Burr Arch: Mill Creek Bridge
The Mingo Creek Viaduct, officially called the Joe Montana Bridges, are a pair of twin girder bridges that carry Pennsylvania Route 43 over the Mingo Creek, Pennsylvania Route 88, and the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway between Union Township and Carroll Township, both of Washington County, Pennsylvania.
Billie Creek Village was a 70-acre open-air living history museum and park, filled with 38 historical buildings and structures, and hundreds of antiques and artifacts. It is located at near Rockville, Adams Township, Parke County, Indiana in the area known as the "Covered Bridge Capital of the World" for the county's 31 covered bridges
The Wilkins Mill Covered Bridge is north of Rockville, Indiana, United States. The single span Burr Arch Truss covered bridge structure was built by William Hendricks in 1906. The bridge is 120 feet (37 m) long, 16 feet (4.9 m) wide, and 13 feet (4.0 m) high. [4] [5] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. [3]