Each October, more than 1 million tourists descend on the otherwise quiet Parke County. Its Covered Bridge Festival ... In Mecca, artisans set up booths near a restored one-room schoolhouse.

Each October, during the Covered Bridge Festival, sleepy Parke County is wide awake with activity ... it originally spanned the Whitewater River near Brownsville. “I love our covered bridge ...

In the Midwest there's a type of bridge so widely celebrated it gets its own festival that lasts 10 days. The 2024 Parke County Covered Bridge Festival starts Friday in Rockville. Here's what you ...

In fact, Parke County has more covered bridges than any other county in the U.S. and, boy, are they proud of that fact. Each year Parke County has a Covered Bridge Festival that they claim can ...

Headquartered on the courthouse lawn in Rockville, the Parke County Covered Bridge Festival runs from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. all 10 days, spanning nearly every Parke County town and featuring 31 covered ...

Called "Indiana's largest festival," the Parke County Covered Bridge Festival kicks off Friday Oct. 14. The festival runs through Oct. 23. The 10-day festival always begins on the second Friday in ...