Bridge Quest!

Here's the big picture: all bridges plotted on map and color-coded by county. Click for larger view.

You could probably comfortably see all the remaining covered bridges in New Brunswick in about five days of binge-visiting, if you chose to.  I am about two thirds of the way through the list and it will end up taking me over two years of good-weather seasons to see them all, as I have been taking my time and day-tripping only.

[Update 2017: I still haven't seen them all, so three years is the new estimate.]

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Step 1:  Print off a list of bridges (see Printable Bridge Lists in the 'Pages' column on the top right if you don't have one from another source).

Step 2:  Get maps to find the general to ever more specific locations. [I love maps and have not even activated the GPS in my SUV.]  One extra thing to try out for pre-orientation to the locations is to go to Street View on Google maps, where you can confirm your locations while taking a 'virtual' drive-through of the bridges.  Note any details you will need to have on your gadget, map, printout, or scrap of paper. You will have to switch to Earth view, i.e. satellite view, to hone in on a few bridges, because the locations are so remote that a Street View camera has not yet visited some routes (as of 2015).     

Step 3:  Organize your search party.  Always pack an excellent picnic, or find out about interesting lunch spots in the areas to be visited.  This is all part of the fun.  You will be hungry on these trips, count on it, and will discover things like Alma sticky buns (from Kelly's Bake Shop), Doaktown homemade donuts (from the Village Family Restaurant), and chowder in St.Martins (the Caves or Seaside Restaurants), to name a few tried and true favorites along the way.

*Also a good idea to pack: beach shoes or sandals that can get wet, in order to take pictures from damp, muddy river banks, or from in the water.  Many of the streams under the bridges are only knee-deep in the summer.  


Step 4: Go and find them.  

Step 5:  You are now part of an elite club of Bridge Questers.  Spread your enthusiasm.