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The Gallon House Covered Bridge is a Howe Truss span that was originally built in 1916. It’s down a little farm road outside of Silverton. The parking is a little treacherous for motorcycles but since there are almost no cars on the road, it is completely possible to park in the middle of the bridge if you want.
Today Carl and I made a review of five covered bridges in north Linn county and one just over the county line in Marion County. Although that bridge used to sit in Linn county. Therefore it counts too. The bridges we visited are Hoffman Covered Bridge, Gilkey Covered Bridge, Shimanek Covered Bridge, Stayton-Jordan Covered Bridge, Hannah Covered Bridge, and Larwood Covered Bridge. One note for people making this same circuit.. some maps show Lulay Road between Jordan and Lacomb as going through and being paved. There are forest gates on the road about three miles along the road when coming from the Jordan direction. The pavement also runs out at the gates. We had to detour around to get between the Hannah and Larwood bridges. It wasn’t a bad detour but it was a bit annoying to have to backtrack after finding a locked gate.
Partway through the ride we ran into this wonderful sign. It reads “STOP. HAMMER TIME.” Some clever fellow made a stencil and painted up the sign for general amusement. For those interested, this sign (on both sides of the road, no less) is at the rail road crossing on Robinson Drive just west of Scio, Oregon.
