Thursday, 11 October and Friday, 12 October 2012

Ohio River and Covered Bridges Scenic Highway

As always, we really try to get into the country side. This was a great trek along the Ohio River.

Along the banks of the Ohio River, early in the morning mist. This is a view from our camper window. We were staying in a wonderful National Forest Campground. It had electricity and hot shows for $10/night!

We watched (and heard during the night) tug boats pushing very long barges laden with coal and other goods heading up and down the Ohio.

This was as close as we could get to the ducks! They were really skittish!

Ohio State highway 27 is designated as a scenic Ohio River and Covered Bridges By-Way. It was a really “winding” road but very beautiful. We followed the River for over 150 miles, camping at several places along the way. Here is one several covered bridges we stopped at. This one is still operational. Of course it created a challenge for driving through it. See the next couple of photographs!

Who’s driving? Just checking for clearance!

Plenty of clearance. There was a neat National campground on the other side!

The interior of another covered bridge. This one was first built in 1837. It has been destroyed by an ice flow (!!!) in 1920 and two floods. However, each time it was rebuilt.

An old miller’s house really back in the sticks. We came across this place when we followed a sign leading to another National Forest Campground. It was really in the sticks, 5 miles down a dirt road! There was no one else around. As we camped here, I kept thinking of the movie “Deliverance” since West Virginia was just across the river!

Our campground in the sticks! In the middle of the night, Meriam jabs me with her elbow asking “what is that?” A pack of coyotes were probably no more than 50 yards away serenading us (complete with their kids going yep, yep, yep!)