Covered Bridge Festival

Today we packed up the car and headed down the road to the Covered Bridge Festival. It takes place annually in Parke County, which is on the east side of Indiana, between Terre Haute and Lafayette.

Festival central is in Rockville.

There is a road on the east side of Indianapolis called "Rockville Road". Guess where it goes.

A small town diner in Danville. I would make a Matlock joke here, but I can't think of anything from the Andy Griffith Show.

Jill and Madelyn in front of the covered bridge in Bridgeton. This bridge was actually destroyed by arson a few years ago, but it was rebuilt in 2006. We have another picture from 2001 with Jill sitting in the Jeep in front of the original. I don't know if you can open the picture to enlarge it, but all of the covered bridges have the phrase "Cross This Bridge at a Walk". We did drive the Envoy across two of the bridges in Parke County, one of which was built in the 1860's. I bet they didn't have 4,000 pound SUVs in mind when they designed them, but it held up (a few creaks and groans notwithstanding).

Another shot of the Bridgeton covered bridge. This picture was taken from a window in the Old Mill marked "Best View in Town: FREE". If you look at the mill in the next picture, it was the 3rd window in from the left, 2nd up from the bottom.
The scene in Bridgeton. The festival was all on the south side of the bridge (the far side in the picture), while most of the parking was on the north side, so you walk across the covered bridge to get to the festival.