Old Union Crossing Covered Bridge

OLD UNION CROSSING COVERED BRIDGE

Where: Mentone in DeKalb County, Alabama

When Built: 1863

GPS Coordinates: 34°32′3.51″N, 85°35′56.47″W 

Union troops built this 90-foot-long bridge as a means to get across Otter Creek. When Otter Creek dried up in 1972, the structure was moved to where it stands today, on private property over the Little River. You’ll have to travel a private dirt road to get here, so contact Shady Grove Dude Ranch (the property housing the bridge) if you want to visit.

See all 14 of the covered bridges we photographed in Alabama at this link.

All photography by Gary Clark, a former Southern Living Magazine travel photographer and photographer of the United States Postal Service 2014 Star-Spangled Banner Forever stamp. See more of Gary's work and contact him at www.thegaryclark.com.