Snowy Range Pass

Snowy Range Pass

Saturday, August 31, 2019

When they close the road, the GPS will take you anywhere…


27 June 2019


After leaving The White-Water Canal site we decided to visit the Medora Covered Bridge.  This is the longest covered bridge in the USA.  It looked like an easy short ride on highways.  We plugged it into the GPS and headed out.  After just a few miles, we saw a sign stating road closed ahead.  We could see down the road that was indeed a road closed sign.  So, we took a left turn on a smaller road in this rural farm area.  The GPS quickly recalculated and started giving advice. 


At first it was OK; we were driving thru paved scenic farmland on numbered county roads.  After a couple turns, it took us on a gravel road.  Now, we normally avoid these roads but thought it would be ok.







 After several more of these turns, we ended up on a very small gravel and dirt road.  There was really no place to turn around safely, so we pressed on until we reached a very small and old bridge with a 3-ton weight limit.




We were stuck.  After looking over the bridge, I crossed it smartly without any drama and we continued this rough road but now with flooded fields on both sides.  Some part of the road had standing water, finally, we reached the main road, where we could see the bridge.











After the bridge visit, we saw several closed road signs, but cars were just going pass them.  It turned out that the closed road signs were for flooded roads from previous heavy rains.  Apparently, they do not take these signs down or cover them when not needed.

1 comment:

Nickie and Jim said...

Makes you wonder, doesn't it? :-)