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The Parke County Covered Bridge Festival is a fall festival which takes place in nine communities in Parke County, Indiana, United States. It celebrates the county's 31 covered bridges, and is attended by more than 2 million people each year. It begins on the second Friday in October and lasts 10 days.
The Rupert Covered Bridge Number 56 is a burr arch bridge with a triple span 164 feet (50 m) long and the entire length is approximately 185 feet (56 m). The road inside the bridge is 17.25 feet (5.26 m) wide, with a clearance of 9.8 feet (3.0 m).
Oct. 15—With 31 covered bridges scattered throughout Parke County in locations as disparate as Turkey Run State Park and Little Raccoon Creek, it's the ideal location for a covered bridge festival.
Rockville hosts the Parke County Covered Bridge Festival. Notable people Mark L ... This page was last edited on 7 June 2024, at 17:15 (UTC).
Parke County has 31 covered bridges and is widely referred to as the 'Covered Bridge Capital of the World'. [8] It is the site for the Parke County Covered Bridge Festival which has been held in October each year. [9] Parke County is included in the Terre Haute, Indiana, Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Beginning way back in 1855, the Bloomsburg Fair hosted its 168th annual festival throughout the past week, beginning last Friday and wrapping up today. Aside from an endless assortment of food ...
At one time, as many as 53 covered bridges existed (wholly or in part) in Parke County. Today, 31 of those bridges survive, 10 of which have been closed to vehicle traffic. [2] The Jackson Covered Bridge is the longest single span covered bridge in Indiana. The Portland Mills Covered Bridge is the oldest of the county's covered bridges.
Billie Creek Village was a 70-acre open-air living history museum and park, filled with 38 historical buildings and structures, and hundreds of antiques and artifacts. It is located at near Rockville, Adams Township, Parke County, Indiana in the area known as the "Covered Bridge Capital of the World" for the county's 31 covered bridges