COVERED BRIDGE

I was playing around in JigZone. JIg saw puzzle site. In the bridges section spotted a familiar name. Not because of the bridge but a street in Springfield named for the pioneer family. Goodpasture bridge is one of fourteen covered bridges in Lane county still open to traffic.

Head on shot from the puzzle site. The bridge was built in the 1930's on the McKenzie highway near the little town of Vida. Named for Benjamin Franklin Goodpasture who was born in 1877. His parents settled in Lane County in the 1850's.

Shot from Wickipedia. It's 165 feet long, carries two lanes of traffic and is the second longest covered bridge in Oregon. It is listed in the National Registry of Historic places. In the 1980's the bridge was repaired, strengthened and some access modified to handle traffic more safely. Traffic on 127 can get a little crazy sometimes. Some folks just don't believe in slowing down especially on holiday weekends. I've been by the bridge dozens of times but never crossed it. My loss. It was just kind of interesting to find my little corner of the world on a puzzle site.