I made my fourth covered bridge trip up to Columbia County on Sunday 10-11-2009, this time hoping for a good amount of Fall foliage around the six bridges that I was targeting. It was sort of odd in that I didn’t find much Fall color changes directly around any of the bridges I stopped at but I did see a fantastic array of colors on the way up PA route 61 especially through the Centralia area and also on some of the single lane back roads that my GPS was favoring. There were bridge sightseers by the dozens today. The twin bridges of East and West Paden seemed especially busy. I have to hand it to Columbia County and those that work to preserve these bridges. They do a wonderful job of making each and every bridge a place that you want to take friends and family to go visit again and again.
The beautiful bridge above is the Kramer Covered Bridge which spans Mud Run in Columbia County Pennsylvania just outside of the town of Rohrsburg on Turkey Path Road. Built in 1881 by C.W. Eves, it has a Queen Post design design and is 50 feet in length. It was completely refurbished in 2007-2008 by Columbia County, who owns and maintains the bridge. There were several great angles you could shoot this particular bridge from including a little peninsula that the creek meanders around on the opposite side of the bridge. The WGCB # is 38-19-23.
There is an excellent covered bridge tour map in the form of a printable PDF offering two loops that cover all 25 covered bridges in Columbia and Montour countiess available here.
I shot this as nine bracketed RAW frames then combined into an HDR and tone mapped in Photomatix Pro with some extra work done in Topaz Adjust.
