“Do not
go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a
trail.”
~ Ralph
Waldo Emerson
~1803-1882
What a wonderful way to spend a
summer evening, riding on horseback through historic Bogert’s Covered Bridge in
Lehigh Parkway, Allentown, Pennsylvania, as the late day sun dappled light
seems to trail them out of the bridge in early July.
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.
