Wawona Covered Bridge, Yosemite National Park, CA
This covered bridge was built by Galen Clark in 1868 and spans the South Fork of the Merced River near Wawona in the national park. In the initial days, the area had Ponderosa pine and Douglas fir, but it lacked one essential element.. a roof!
But by the late 1880s, the Wawona Hotel’s owners, a trio from Vermont supposedly homesick for a bit of New England, had the bridge covered.
Its initial purpose was to provide a direct route to Yosemite Valley for local horse traffic and pedestrians. But today, visitors can walk the same stretch that Ralph Waldo Emerson once traversed.
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5 thoughts on “11 Most Beautiful Covered Bridges in America”
Thank you. Excellent photography!
Absolutely awesome. I don’t live very far from the covered bridge in Newfield, NY. I have been through often.
A beautiful covered bridge with old mill next to it in Bridgeton, Ind. This is in Parke County Indiana.
Wow so many covered bridges in West Virginia such as Staats Mill in Ripley or the historical Phillipi covered bridge the first land bsttle of the Civil War etc put some of these to shame what a one person view of beautiful covered bridges
You totally left out all of the beautiful covered bridges of Parke County in Indiana. They are the home of the Covered Bridge Festival held every year in October over a 10 day period.