Park County Indiana is home to two Indiana State Parks and the 2,110 acre Raccoon Lake State Recreation Area. In addition Parke County is home to 31 covered bridges, more than any other county in the nation. Rockville is the county seat and also is the starting point for 5 different well marked self driving road tours to see most of the 31 bridges.
The 245′ Bridgeton Bridge and associated mill, The bridge was burned by arson in 2005, rebuilt in 2006.
These historic bridges are fairly evenly scattered over the 444 square miles of the county. Every October over two million visitors converge on Parke County for the world famed 10 day Covered Bridge Festival. People come to see the bridges and shop any of the thousands of vendors who occupy building’s or temporary tents that sprout up allover the county.
Crooks Bridge, 132′ long, built in 1856 by Henry Wolfe
Neet Bridge, 125′ long, was built in 1904 by JJ Daniels
Note the Red Arrow. This shows the easy self driving tour routes.
We took the 34 mile long Red Route starting at the Rail Road Depot in Rockville. This drive brought us up close and personal to eight old covered bridges. Some we could drive across, some were closed to traffic with a new roadway running next to the bridge.
Harry Evans Bridge, 65 ‘ long, built by JA Britton in 1908
Showing the Burr-Arch support design of the Evans bridge. This design is found in 30 of the Park County bridges including one double Burr-Arch.
Our road trip to Parke County was, in our opinion, most successful. Along with our drive along the Red Route of covered bridges, we also had some other stops that we’ll share in other articles here. Just know this: a road trip to Parke County Indiana offers country roads and viewing historic bridges, enjoyable dining and shopping opportunities. Click here for the Park County Visitor’s Center website.
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Did you ever follow Milford Street? He traveled across the eastern states photographing all of the historic covered bridges. Once he completed his goal, he made his blog private. So, it was nice to see a covered bridge again. Thanks for this post.
https://milfordstreet.wordpress.com/
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Thanks, I have heard of Milford Street but have never seen his blog. Yes it is still private. We have covered several bridges in East Central Indiana, can be found in our archives. (As you can tell, I enjoy historic bridges, including stone and iron versions!
Thanks again
Maj
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wow – I just looked up Milford Street blog recently – was wondering about him – Chris, right? either way – I liked his blog and it was nice to see you mention him here. Hope he is well – and I did enjoy his travel shares too
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He said that he was concerned about whether his blog adhered to both EU and U.S. privacy protocols with regards to login credentials, and the gathering and storage of personal data.
I advised him that WordPress blogs do comply with data collection guidelines, but he remained unsure, and made his blog private.
I’m not sure if there wasn’t something else going on, but that was my understanding.
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Hi – thanks so much for letting me know that! And how awesome that you reached out to him.
I bet there were many factors at play – including wanting to maybe no blog anymore – and the whole data collection thing is a big deal… hmmmm
thanks again for letting me know this
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What a delightful post!
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looks like a great place and historic bridges sound so interesting
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