For 2018, we upgraded our geotrail to an official Geocaching GeoTour! Learn more about Pennsylvania's Clearfield County GeoTour, which offers a series of 5 related geocaching adventures: Forgotten Clearfield, Hometown Heroes, Waterways, Cemeteries, and Parks and Recreation. Codes are hidden within each cache. Collect 25 codes from across all 5 series and you qualify for a collectible prize. If you complete all 5 and have your passport validated, you can receive a trackable geocoin.
This caches is part of a series of caches highlighting the bridges that span the West Branch of the Susquehanna River in Clearfield County and part of the 2015 CCGT Geotrail. This should be a cache and dash and you may need to be mindful of mugglers. Please briing your own pen or pencil.
This bridge is the only remaining covered bridge over any of the branches of the Susquehanna Rivers. Thomas McGee, son of town founder Rev. James McGee, built this 122 foot single span Burr arch truss bridge in 1873 for $175. The materials he used include hand hewed white pine timber from the area. It was the last covered bridge built in Clearfield County. Thousands of logging rafts floated under this bridge, including the last raft in 1938. There is a nice park here on private land that is open for the public. There are some facts posted not only on the history of the McGees Mills covered bridge, but also on why bridges were built with roofs that was interesting. Please be respectful and enjoy. If you havent found the McGees Mills cache (GCX7Z1) yet, now is the time to do it. One last fact on this location. A LONG, LONG time ago, Curwensville Troop 13 often used this location to either start canoe trips or camp overnite while on canoe trips that started in Cherry Tree. I was one of those scouts! Now that was a long time ago!
