Name: Covered Bridge

Where: Near Yellow Springs, Greene County, Ohio

Difficulty 1.5

Placed 23 November 2001 by Flyfisher

Life was a little simpler than the rush of today. At least it looks
that way from our vantage point. Computers were not yet part of
science fiction. Science fiction was Jules Verne. Structural wood
was still cheaper than structural steel. Buildings, fences, and
bridges were almost all made of wood.

But bridges needed to remain strong with the passing of heavy wagons
pulled by horses and later tractors and trucks. Paint was not enough
protection for the bridge structural members from the ravages of
weather. So roofs and sides were put on wooden bridges to keep them
dry.

In the late twentieth century, many of these bridges were replaced by
steel or by concrete bridges. In a few cases money was available to
move the wooden covered bridge to a park or somewhere it might be
appreciated.

To find this bridge, use a topographic or road map to find Grinnell
Road just outside Yellow Springs. A couple hundred yards north of
its crossing the Little Miami River, on the south-west side of the
road is a turn-off where you can park.

If you desire a GPS coordinate, it is N 39 deg 47.120 min W 83 deg
52.607 min.

The bridge is across a field at a heading of 250 degrees. The length
of the bridge is 24 of my paces. Enjoy the babbling of the brook
under the bridge. Try to ignore the graffiti left by this
generation's vandals not that this is the first to deface these
beautiful bridges.

Keeping going absolutely straight up the hill in front of you a total
of 38 paces. At the foot of the two honey locust trees (big thorns)
the letterbox lies under two or three stones.

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