Honeymoon Covered Bridge Jackson
— — red boards over moving water.
Not only on a wall.
“A red covered bridge at the entrance to Jackson, New Hampshire, carrying the village road over the Ellis River. Built in 1876, a Paddleford truss with added arches, locally known as the Honeymoon Bridge. The Ellis comes down from the eastern shoulder of Mount Washington. Cross it and you are in the village proper, with the inn, the church, and the road up to Pinkham Notch ahead.
Honeymoon Covered Bridge Jackson, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
The bridge crosses the Ellis River at the southern entrance to Jackson village in Carroll County, on the eastern edge of New Hampshire's White Mountains. It was built in 1876 by Charles Austin Broughton and his son Frank, using a Paddleford truss reinforced with laminated wooden arches. The single span runs about 121 feet. Locals call it the Honeymoon Bridge, after the wedding-travel tradition that has long sent couples through it on the way into the village. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
The Ellis River drains the eastern flank of Mount Washington and the Carter–Moriah range, joining the Saco River at Glen a few miles south. The reach under the bridge holds clear, cold water most of the year, with shallow rapids upstream and a deeper pool below. Jackson Falls, a long granite cascade on the Wildcat Brook tributary, sits about half a mile up Carter Notch Road from the bridge. The river is open to fly-fishing, with brook and brown trout in the runs above the village.
The bridge reads differently across the year. Late September into early October draws leaf-peepers off Route 16, with maples on the village side turning red and gold against the red bridge boards. Winter brings cross-country skiers from the Jackson Ski Touring trail network, which runs about 150 kilometres through the village. Spring is high water and mud. Summer brings hikers heading up to Tuckerman Ravine via Pinkham Notch, the trailhead about ten miles north. The bridge itself is open year-round to one lane of traffic.