Caution: Watch out for vehicles travelling through the bridge.
The current Point Wolfe Covered Bridge is a replacement built-in 1993 when the previous bridge was severely damaged in a construction mishap by a rock cliff being blasted to improve the 90° turn at the one end of the bridge. The Point Wolfe Bridge has been painted red.
Point Wolfe was drawn into the age of wooden ships, sea communications, and the Atlantic timber trade. Cut off from northern European supplies, Britain had turned to its North American colonies for wood. The assault began in the Ottawa Valley of Upper Canada and in the basins of New Brunswick's largest rivers, Saint John and the Miramichi. As the most accessible trees were removed, the lumbermen moved into more difficult terrain. Saint John merchants were quick to recognize the bay shore's forest wealth. Along the wild and unsettled Fundy coast were rivers reaching inland to forested hills, and sheltered river mouths where schooners could load sawn lumber. It was here at the river mouths that the history of the parking area began.
Point Wolfe Bridge is inaccessible to vehicular traffic in the winter, as the Fundy National Park closes off the road. Built-in 1992. Length 28.8m (94')
Directions: Route 1, Exit 211, Route 114 south for 41.5 km (25.7 miles), on to Point Wolfe Road in Fundy National Park of Canada.
Note: Cache is not located under the bridge, not on the trail, and not on the wooden guardrail or wooden fence.
Congrats to ajlong for FTF.