Among my niche maps, this one for covered bridges in Alabama. It’s not complete, and I’m having some back-and-forth about whether cute 12′ pedestrian covered walkways in public parks and residential side-yards built to look like the ones you and I think of as *real* covered bridges should be isted…but yeah! This gets the really big, beautiful, impressive ones and includes some that are just fun to run across too. The map is embedded at the bottom of this post.
And always, if you know of one that belongs, let me know — thanks!
Some of the faves
The newest one I’ve been through, at Madison County Nature Preserve in Huntsville on Green Mountain, is post & beam and built in 1974. The park is a super easy walk and really pretty.
This one in Waldo looks suspended in air
The Swann in Blount County is 324′ long which makes it the longest historic one in the state. It was built in 1933.
These are the supports for the nonextant Nectar Covered Bridge which was once the seventh-longest covered bridge in the country. It burned in 1993.
The bridge I grew up going to — Clarkson – Legg Covered Bridge in Cullman County. It’s 270′ long:
Horton Mill in Blount County is the highest covered bridge over water in the entire country
And I’m so tickled that I actually know someone who built a covered bridge! This is Tat Bailey, who was among the ultra-talented friends I got to know from being in the incredible circle of Wade Wharton. While both of these gentlemen are gone now, I think about them and celebrate them still…and will forever.
