The
Old Union Crossing
Covered Bridge is privately owned, spanning
the West Fork of the Little River between Cloudmont Ski & Golf Resort and
Shady Grove Dude Ranch, off Co. Rd. 614 in
DeKalb County.
The bridge was built sometime between 1863 and 1864 by Union
Army troops over Otter Creek, now a dry creek bed, located near the town of Lincoln in either Talladega
County or Calhoun County.
The Old
Union Crossing
Covered Bridge was purchased in 1972
by Jack Jones, original owner of Cloudmont Ski & Golf Resort, and moved
north to Lookout Mountain near Mentone. The covered
section was built over an existing steel cable bridge in 1980.
The Old
Union Crossing
Covered Bridge is one of the five
covered bridges in the state of Alabama
built before 1950 that is still of existence today. It is not on the National
Register of Historic Places, mostly because of being rebuilt and losing most of
its integrity.
Today, the bridge mostly serves as
a crossing for horseback riders on the trails to and from Shady Grove Dude
Ranch.
Please be courteous to the
property owners and ask permission before crossing the bridge.
256-634-4344
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| West Fork of Little River |
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| That's our buggy peeking around the corner before crossing. |
This bridge looked too scary to cross. I walked across it first. It felt very strong but I must say I wasn't so sure about crossing it in the car. The problem was we couldn't back up. The road was so steep and had gravel that caused our tires to spin. So we really had no choice but to cross it... John did it and we lived to tell about it, haha- Yay!!
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