“Why is the summer mist romantic and the autumn mist
just sad?”
~ Dorothy
Gladys “Dodie” Smith
~
1896-1990
~ from
“I Capture the Castle”
~
published 1948
Evoking a beguiling sense of mystery, the summer mist
rises from the Little Lehigh Creek under Bogert’s Covered Bridge on a warm late August evening
at Lehigh Parkway, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Bogert’s Covered Bridge spans 145
feet over the Little Lehigh Creek.
Built in 1841, its history traces
back to the mid-1700s when the Bogert family moved into a log cabin next to the
future site of the bridge. It is the oldest covered bridge in Lehigh County and
among the oldest in the country. It is open only to pedestrian and bicycle
traffic, as well as the occasional rider on horseback.
Bogert’s Covered Bridge is a wooden
Burr Truss bridge with vertical plank siding and a gable roof. It was placed on
the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
