WayfarrowRyot Covered Bridge
Covered bridge · Bedford County, Pennsylvania
Ryot Covered Bridge is a covered bridge in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania has 231 covered bridges on record at Wayfarrow, 12 of them in Bedford County.
It was built in 2004, in the postwar decades, making it the 131st oldest of the 134 in Pennsylvania with a recorded construction date; it is about 84 feet long (40th longest of 83 measured in Pennsylvania).
Status check, 2026-11: The c.1867-69 Burr-truss bridge was burned by teenage arsonists in 2002 and rebuilt in 2004. It was removed from the National Register because too little original material remained, and some sources give its length as 84 or 86 ft. Ryot Covered Bridge is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It stands at 40.1422° N, 78.6250° W.
Key facts
| Current structure built | 2004 |
|---|---|
| Length | 84 ft |
| Heritage designation | National Register of Historic Places listed place |
| National Register | Listed |
| Coordinates | 40.14222, -78.62500 |
Nearby places
- New Paris Covered Bridgecovered bridge · Bedford County · 1.2 mi
- Dr. Knisley Covered Bridgecovered bridge · Bedford County · 1.7 mi
- Snooks Covered Bridgecovered bridge · Bedford County · 3 mi
- Osterburg Covered Bridgecovered bridge · Bedford County · 5 mi
- Heirline Covered Bridgecovered bridge · Bedford County · 8.8 mi
- Diehls Covered Bridgecovered bridge · Bedford County · 9.3 mi
- Cliffsghost town · Bedford County · 11.5 mi
- New Baltimore Bridgecovered bridge · Somerset County · 13.3 mi
- Halls Mill Covered Bridgecovered bridge · Bedford County · 16.3 mi
- Trostletown Bridgecovered bridge · Somerset County · 17.3 mi
- Glessner Bridgecovered bridge · Somerset County · 17.6 mi
- Shaffer's Bridgecovered bridge · Somerset County · 20.3 mi
Questions
Where is Ryot Covered Bridge?
Ryot Covered Bridge is in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, at 40.1422, -78.6250.
How many covered bridges are in Bedford County?
Bedford County, Pennsylvania has 12 covered bridges on record at Wayfarrow.
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