The most accessible of the six covered bridges, parked inside Winterset City Park rather than out in the fields. Seventy-nine feet of pine timbers under a flat-pitched roof, painted the standard barn red. The setting — a city park with a playground and picnic shelters — strips away some of the romance of seeing one at the end of a gravel road, but it makes for a good orientation stop before driving the loop.
Walk through, photograph the framing of the trusses, then head out to find the others where they stand.