Covered Bridge Tour of Bucks County - NORTH Multi-Cache

This cache is a delightful seven-mile road tour through the pretty north Bucks County countryside. You'll visit three covered bridges. Get a clue at each bridge to determine the coordinates for a conventional cache near the third bridge - the Uhlerstown Covered Bridge. Have fun. Take a camera. Take Fido. Take the kids. Take grandma-this is wheelchair accessible.

See my companion cache tour of the South bridges - Covered Bridge Tour of Bucks County - South. GCB826 and West tour - GCHDPN If you pre-plan, you can do all three tours in an afternoon and avoid double-backing over the same territory. Or you can do each of the three tours separately. Note: Regular bridge is washed-out on Dark Hollow Road across the Tohickon Creek (Tinicum)so you'll have to use another road to "connect" tours. Bridge was to be re-opened April 1, 2004. Would the next person who finds it opened please confirm in your log? Tks.

If you enjoy tours like this one, check out my other covered bridge caches.

A. Frankenfield Covered Bridge N40 28.537 W75 5.979 Over the Tinicum Creek, this is a typical Town Truss design as are the other bridges for those who really want to know about these things!

Frankenfield quiz- What number is inscribed on a plaque embeded in the stone wall leading up to the bridge?

1. 26
2. 51
3. 35

ENTER A answer(1, 2 or 3) = ________

B. Erwinna Bridge N40 30.145 W75 4.465 is the shortest remaining covered bridge in Bucks.

Erwinna quiz- What number in black letters with a yellow background is on the power pole 40 feet south of the bridge on the west side of the road?

1. 74385
2. 62041
3. 92564

ENTER B answer(1, 2 or 3) = ________

C. Uhlerstown Covered Bridge N40 31.521 W75 4.394 PLEASE PARK 100 YARDS BEFORE THE BRIDGE TO KEEP THE LOCAL CITIZENRY HAPPY. DO NOT PARK ON THEIR PROPERTY OR BLOCK THEIR DRIVEWAYS. This bridge is unusual as it crosses the Delaware Canal at Lock Number 8 in the midst of a small settlement. Check out the spill through the canal that can be seen looking north from inside the bridge. No, do NOT enter north onto the private property on the east side of the bridge even though you're tempted.

Uhlerstown quiz- What number is inscribed on a plaque embeded in the stone wall leading up to the bridge?

1. 178
2. 203
3. 364

ENTER C answer(1, 2 or 3) = ________

Cache Coordinates:
Enter the number for each of your three answers and add them up:
A______ + B _______ + C _______ = Total ________

The coordinates for the cache are determined by your total (not all possible totals are listed. Only one right one and three wrong ones, enough to make you do the tour.)

If your total is 4, the cache coordinates are: N40 31.494 W75 04.377

If your total is 5, the cache coordinates are: N40 31.456 W75 04.392

If your total is 6, the cache coordinates are: N40 31.446 W75 04.385

If your total is 7, the cache coordinates are: N40 31.474 W75 04.386

Start your walking hunt from the public access path south of the bridge on the east side. Do NOT use private property accesses.

Cache is a paint sprayed Lock'n Lock container about 4" x 6".

The pictures are NOT spoilers.

Encrypted hint beneath poem.
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COVERED BRIDGE - REFLECTIONS

Abandoned above the coursing stream
Whose currents race so heedless by
Between high banks where granite boulders gleam.
Recalling the flowing years that fly,
The quickly fading then, the urgent now,
A corridor of memories that you endow
In muted shapes, where arching timbers rot
Half hidden and with shaded trusses blurred.
Footsteps muffled to my waiting ears
By dust laid deep on oaken planks now stirred
To echo thoughts long buried with the years.
Within your shadows sparked by errant beams
I walk again to find abandoned dreams.

Norman F. Brydon 1969
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