Covered Bridge Tour of Bucks County - SOUTH Virtual Cache

This fifteen-mile road tour takes you through the pretty south Bucks County countryside. You'll visit three covered bridges. It's a delightful virtual trip.

See my companion cache tour of the North bridges - Covered Bridge Tour of Bucks County - North. GCB81C Since this South tour is now a virtual, you can go either direction. But if you want to link up with the companion tour in the north, which is a conventional cache, I'd suggest starting at Van Sant and head north all the way. Note: Regular bridge is washed-out on Dark Hollow Road across the Tohickon Creek so you'll have to use another road to "connect" both tours. Then head up north picking up my West bridge tour - GCHDPN If you pre-plan, you can do all three caches in one giant loop. Or you can do each of the three tours separately.

If you enjoy tours like this one, check out my other covered bridge caches. Click on Covered Bridge Bookmark Alan2 on right.

A. Cabin Run Covered Bridge N40 25.926 W75 6.760 Over the Cabin Run Stream, this is a typical Town Truss design as are all the other bridges. Cabin Run quiz- What number is attached on a power pole 40 feet from the north side of the bridge on the west side of the road.?

1. 87
2. 29
3. 12

B. Loux Covered Bridge N40 25.364 W75 7.649 is the other covered bridge over the Cabin Run stream. Loux quiz- What’s the name of one of the commissioners on the plaque located on one of the bridge approach railings?

1. Jim Purdys
2. Benjamin Wiggins
3. Ted Kennedy

C. Van Sant Covered Bridge N40 19.586 W74 57.458 Also known as the Beaver Dam bridge crosses the Pidcock Creek. It’s close to New Hope which is a wonderful place to shop and spend time in all the boutiques. Van Sant quiz- What’s the name of one of the commissioners on the plaque located on one of the bridge approach railings?

1. Frank Smith
2. Abraham Thomson
3. Elton John

In order to report a “find” for this cache send an email to me with the three answers.

Go ahead and post your “find” at the same time – I trust ya. If you have a camera, post a picture of your touring crew at one of the bridges. It’ll make for a nice album.

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THE BRIDGE BUILDER

An old man going a lone highway
Came at the evening cold and gray
To a chasm vast and deep and wide.

The old man crossed in the twilight dim
The sullen stream had no fears for him
But he turned when safe on the other side
And built a bridge to span the tide.

"Old man," said a fellow pilgrim near
"You are wasting your time with building here.
You never again will pass this way
Why build you this bridge at eventide?"

The builder lifted his old gray head
"Good friend in the way that I've come," he said,
"There followeth after me today
A youth whose feet must pass this way.

This stream that has been as naught to me
To the fair-haired youth might a pitfall be.
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim
Good friend, I am building the bridge for him."

Unknown

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