Wholly G'rails of US Covered Bridges Traditional Cache
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Wholly G'rails of US Covered Bridges
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The cache is located near the bridge parking/viewing area.
The Smolen-Gulf Bridge is a covered bridge which carries State Road
across the Ashtabula River in northern Ashtabula County, Ohio. At
613 feet, it is the longest covered bridge in the United States – a
title formerly held by the Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge in New
Hampshire – and the fourth longest covered bridge in the world. The
bridge, one of 16 drivable covered bridges in the county, was
designed by John Smolen, former Ashtabula County Engineer when the
idea of bridging the Ashtabula River Gulf with a wooden structure
was first conceived in 1995. The county's 17th publicly accessible
covered bridge cost approximately $7.78 million to build and
features walkways along both sides. It is constructed of four 152
feet sections that rest on concrete abutments and three concrete
piers, and rises more than 93 feet over the river, carrying two
lanes of legal-weight traffic. The bridge consists of 3 feet thick
pieces of Douglas fir or yellow pine, with hemlock or yellow poplar
being used for the siding. The builder was Union Industrial
Contractors and Koski Construction. We borrowed the name for this
cache from the Wholly G'Rail Series started by Foxult in Charlotte,
NC.
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