We went to a Thousand trails Park in Clinton, IL. to rest up for a while. Since we have been traveling at a fairly fast speed to get ahead of the weather, we were pretty tired. Stayed a week. This park is in the middle of nowhere so we thought there wasn't anything to see around here. WRONG. This is the Covered bridge capital of the U.S. Their annual festival was going on. This is the biggest festival in IN. One day we went looking. We didn't want to go to the festival, just look at covered bridges. We had to go thru 2 towns that had booths, what a zoo. Could barely get thru, people wandering onto the streets without really looking for cars. Signage for the bridges is bad if you aren't from the area. Out of the 6 on the route we chose, we find 2. There are 31 all together in the area. We didn't find the 2 oldest ones, built in 1886.
This is the Roseville bridge, built in 1910
All covered bridges are basically the same. Pointed roof, all wood and painted red. Didn't realise that they span the rivers, no beams down in the water
This is a drive thru bridge. Notice the extra wood for the cars to drive on.
This is the NEET Bridge, built in 1902.
This is only a walking bridge. Notice there is no extra wood for cars. The entrances are blocked
This is our campsite in Clinton, IN, close to the covered bridges
The view from our campsite. There were 10 lakes at the campground covering 250 acres.
Denny and I taking a walk thru the campground.
First 5th wheel RV that we have ever seen with a back door. Very unusual. Lots of RV's decorated for fall/Halloween wherever we went in Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana
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