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Claycomb Covered Bridge

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Bedford, Pennsylvania has over a dozen covered bridges. We were there for just a day so we only saw one and it’s a nice one.

Claycomb Covered Bridge stands at the entrance to Old Bedford Village. The village was still closed for the season but we were still able to park and look around the bridge.

According to their tourism bureau, the bridge was built in 1880 in another location and later moved to its present location on 1975.

The Burr Truss design was reinforced with steel to accommodate the larger vehicles that pass through here on their way to the village.

Despite being so close to the main highway into Bedford and the Turnpike which sits high above this spot, it’s surprisingly peaceful.

If you’re in the area, plan to see this and all the others via a driving tour created by the visitors center. Get information here!

Frankenmuth, Michigan

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It seems I’m beginning at the end of my Michigan adventure. First I told you about the breakfast diner we enjoyed on our way home. Today, we will talk Frankenmuth, our last day of fun before we headed back to Ohio.

We had less than a day here but we squeezed out of that day as much as possible. First, we toured a jaw dropping historic church before parking downtown to enjoy the Bavarian architecture, cute shops, a late lunch and more. Sometimes, just walking around a place is more entertaining than anything else.

The downtown trash cans say thank you!

It’s all in the details.

There are beautiful flowers everywhere you look.

Plus, a covered bridge!

It’s a quaint village that welcomes visitors and rolls out the welcome mat for them. Come back tomorrow and I’ll tell you about that historic church.

Travel The World

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“Can we just skip to the part of my life where I travel the world?” – Unknown

Image made in Indiana, April 2023.

Bridge Of Dreams

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They call it the Bridge of Dreams because skeptics thought that turning a 370 foot long railroad bridge into a covered bridge was impossible. Turns out it was expensive but not impossible at all.

Today, it’s the second longest covered bridge in Ohio, second only to this one up in Ashtabula County. It’s also the third longest in America.

The railroad bridge was constructed over the Mohican River in the 1920s and abandoned about seventy years later. Like so many abandoned rail lines in this country, a portion was acquired locally and eventually transformed into a rail trail called Mohican Valley Trail. The bridge was covered through private donations and grant money.

I visited on a cool October morning, pulling my jacket tighter as I walked the short distance from the parking lot to the bridge. The foliage along the trail was quite pretty. The trail is paved and rather wide so I’m told you sometimes will see Amish buggies along the way. In other words, watch where you step.

As much as I enjoyed being in the bridge, I better appreciated being under it. There’s enough room to park under the bridge and east access to the shore. This is clearly a popular place to fish and there are plenty of rocks to admire.

The view of the bridge from this vantage point is second to none.

The Mohican Valley Trail stretches about 4.5 miles from the village of Danville to the Holmes County line. It is open to pedestrians, cyclists and horses.

If you go, the address to use is 16606 Hunter Road. Use Brinkhaven or Danville as the town, depending on your navigation system. This is a great side trip if you’re in Ohio’s Amish Country.

Alley Park

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While out running around Saturday, I meandered into Alley Park near Lancaster, Ohio. Part of Lancaster’s city park system, it’s home to picnic areas, seven miles of trails, a terrific log cabin, nature center, a catch and release lake and this covered bridge.

It’s called the George Hutchins Covered Bridge. Built somewhere else in 1865, it was brought here for the Fairfield County Bicentennial Celebration in 2000.

At just 49 feet, it’s not an enormous bridge but it’s in great shape and the perfect venue for small events. In fact, it was decorated Saturday for a late day wedding.

I wandered around here for a bit before heading down the road to bargain shop at Peddlar’s Junction. Just before this, I had visited a local sunflower field. Read about that experience here!

Also, in case you need a pep talk – this flower was growing all alone in a pavement crack. If a little flower can muster this kind of resilience and will to live, we can too!

Alley Park

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While out running around Saturday, I meandered into Alley Park near Lancaster, Ohio. Part of Lancaster’s city park system, it’s home to picnic areas, seven miles of trails, a terrific log cabin, nature center, a catch and release lake and this covered bridge.

It’s called the George Hutchins Covered Bridge. Built somewhere else in 1865, it was brought here for the Fairfield County Bicentennial Celebration in 2000.

At just 49 feet, it’s not an enormous bridge but it’s in great shape and the perfect venue for small events. In fact, it was decorated Saturday for a late day wedding.

I wandered around here for a bit before heading down the road to bargain shop at Peddlar’s Junction. Just before this, I had visited a local sunflower field. Read about that experience here!

Also, in case you need a pep talk – this flower was growing all alone in a pavement crack. If a little flower can muster this kind of resilience and will to live, we can too!