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The Hogback Covered Bridge is a historic covered bridge near Winterset, Iowa. Named after a nearby limestone ridge, it was built in 1884 by Harvey P. Jones and George K. Foster over the North River on Douglas Township Road. The 106-foot-long (32 m) bridge was designed with a Town lattice truss system. It was built with steel pylons to support ...
The Hogback spans 98 feet over North River, four miles northwest of Winterset. While most of the covered bridges were named for nearby landowners, Hogback was named for the hogback ridge at the west end of the valley (its convex curve resembling the curve of a hog’s back).
Known locally as the Hogback Bridge, it spanned the North River some four miles northwest of Winterset, the county seat. The Hogback Bridge extended almost 100 feet; like its immediate predecessors, the Cedar Bridges, it employed a Town lattice truss, overlaid by a queenpost frame.
Hogback And Haunted Roseman Covered Bridges. Stop 19, Hogback Covered Bridge, built in 1884, gets its name from neighboring Hogback Ridge. Inside the bridge, write your story in the Hogback Dreamers Journal, a wooden pocket nailed to the bridge’s interior.
Jun 29, 2022 · A detailed guide to visiting the six covered bridges of Madison County Iowa: Cedar Bridge, Imes Bridge, Roseman Bridge, Holliwell Bridge, Cutler-Donahoe Bridge, and Hogback Bridge. The covered bridges were made famous by the novel and film The Bridges of Madison County.
These squared tubular covered bridges have a unique appearance duplicated only in a few other places in the world. Between 1868 and 1884, Madison County erected nineteen wooden covered bridges. Overtime, all but five of these structures were lost to floods, fires, progress or willful destruction.
Feb 7, 2023 · Built in 1884 by Benton Jones, the 97-foot Hogback Covered Bridge rests in its original location northeast of Winterset. Walk through the bridge and find the wooden framed Dreamer’s Journal where visitors can leave a message or note of their travels.
If you access Hogback Bridge from 195th Street, then Hogback Bridge Road, it’s just over two miles of gravel. The Roseman is the furthest on gravel – 4.3 miles if you turn onto Roseman Bridge Road from I-92 to Elderberry.
In a serene setting, the bridge makes a dramatic statement as it parallels the charmless modern bridge over the river. The ubiquitous graffiti is entertaining: profane, heartfelt, comical. It's 5½ miles from Winterset.
The Hogback Bridge is the northernmost of the six remaining covered bridges in Madison County, Iowa. It is the original 1884 structure at its original location. The bridge piers have been replaced with steel supports, and the structure was extensively renovated in 1992.
