Hillsgrove Covered Bridge
Hillsgrove Covered Bridge is a covered bridge in Pennsylvania, at a modelled elevation of 267 m. Huckleberry Mountain stands 762 m to the southeast, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is High Knob, a peak 1.3 miles away.
The story
The Hillsgrove Covered Bridge is a Burr arch truss covered bridge over Loyalsock Creek in Hillsgrove Township, Sullivan County, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It was built around 1850 and is 186 feet (56.7 m) long. In 1973, it became the first covered bridge in the county to be placed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). The bridge is named for the township and nearby unincorporated village of Hillsgrove, and is also known as Rinkers Covered Bridge for an adjoining farm. Pennsylvania had the first covered bridge in the United States, and has had the most such bridges since the 19th century. They were a transition between stone and metal bridges, with the roof and sides protecting the wooden structure from the weather. The Hillsgrove bridge has load-bearing Burr arches sandwiching multiple vertical king posts on each side, for strength and rigidity. It was built by Sadler Rodgers, who also constructed the nearby Forksville Covered Bridge in the same year, with a similar design. The Hillsgrove bridge is the longest of three covered bridges remaining in Sullivan County, and served as a landing site for lumber rafts on the creek between 1870 and 1890. Nineteenth-century regulations restricting speed, number of animals, and fire are still posted on the bridge. Restoration work was carried out in 1963, 1968, 2010, and again in 2012 after serious flood damage. The bridge is still in use, with average daily traffic of 54 vehicles in 2012. Despite these restorations, it had a "structurally deficient" rating in the 2012 National Bridge Inventory, with a 16.5 percent structural sufficiency rating.[a]
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Wikidata Q11330322, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Built
- 1850
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- High Knob: 1.3 mi
- Bear Mountain: 1.9 mi
- Round Top: 2.0 mi
- Hogback Hill: 2.8 mi
- Middle Hill: 2.9 mi
- Armstrong-Rode Falls: 1.9 mi
- Old Bark Falls: 2.0 mi
- Dry Run Falls: 2.1 mi
- Lee's Falls: 2.3 mi
- Andrea Falls: 2.5 mi
- Forksville Borough Community Park: 4.0 mi
- Laporte Borough Ball Park: 9.3 mi
- Sullivan County Public Park: 9.5 mi
- Cosgrove Memorial Park: 9.6 mi
- King's Beach, Picture Rocks Park: 12.6 mi
- Laquin Lumber Co. mill: 11.8 mi
- Barclay Incline Brakehouse: 12.4 mi
- Picture Rocks Veterans Memorial: 13.0 mi
- Powder House: 14.7 mi
- tannery: 19.3 mi
- Eagles Mere: 5.7 mi
- Eagles Mere Air Museum and Eagles Mere Auto Museum: 7.7 mi
- Endless Mountains War Memorial Museum: 9.5 mi
- Baldwin House: 9.5 mi
- Sullivan County Historical Society Museum: 9.5 mi
- The Dell: 5.6 mi
- Tamarack Run Natural Area: 7.7 mi
- Conklin Run Wilderness Area: 10.4 mi
- Elklick Run Wilderness Area: 10.5 mi
- Rider Park: 16.1 mi
- Mighty Casey: 22.6 mi
- Bases Loaded (B): 22.9 mi
- Bases Loaded (C): 22.9 mi
- Bases Loaded (A): 22.9 mi
- Bases Loaded (D): 22.9 mi
- Masten: 8.4 mi
- Laquin: 11.9 mi
- Barclay: 13.7 mi
- Ricketts: 20.9 mi
- Fall Brook: 22.1 mi
- Mineral Spring: 4.9 mi
- Gibson Hollow Spring: 21.9 mi
- Railroad Springs: 22.8 mi
- Picture Rocks: 12.7 mi
- "The Pier": 15.6 mi
- Fisher Point: 23.2 mi
- Dry Run Picnic Area: 2.9 mi
- Glens Picnic Area: 23.4 mi
- Sullivan County Fairgrounds: 4.1 mi
- Luther's Mills Covered Bridge: 23.3 mi
- Baldwin House Garden: 9.5 mi
- STREAM Garden: 22.5 mi
- Forksville Covered Bridge: 4.1 mi
- Lake Jean Beach: 21.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 17.9 miles of Hillsgrove Covered Bridge. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Huckleberry Mountain | SE 143° | 762 m | 14.9 mi |
| Roundtop | SE 134° | 758 m | 12.2 mi |
| Hatch Mountain | NE 42° | 704 m | 15.9 mi |
| Cahill Mountain | NNE 22° | 703 m | 9.8 mi |
| Huckleberry Mountain | NE 39° | 700 m | 13.4 mi |
| Lake Knob | N 10° | 687 m | 8.7 mi |
| Bodine Mountain | W 274° | 659 m | 17.2 mi |
| Burnetts Ridge | WNW 282° | 656 m | 8.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:11 | 18:42 | 19:19 |
| June solstice | 05:34 | 20:03 | 20:45 |
| September equinox | 06:55 | 18:29 | 19:06 |
| December solstice | 07:30 | 15:56 | 16:41 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 22 | 23 | 31 | 43 | 55 | 63 | 68 | 66 | 59 | 47 | 37 | 27 |
| Precip in | 4.5 | 3.1 | 3.8 | 4.2 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 5.3 | 5.1 | 5.2 | 4.6 | 3.8 | 4.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Laporte, 10 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
National Register of Historic Places, reference 73001666OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata- National Register of Historic Places — Hillsgrove Covered Bridge, reference 73001666, listed 07/02/73.
OpenStreetMap element way/1437052232
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