Kurtz's Mill Covered Bridge is a covered bridge

Covered bridge

A covered bridge is a bridge with enclosed sides and a roof, often accommodating only a single lane of traffic. Most covered bridges are wooden; some newer ones are concrete or metal with glass sides...

 that spans Mill Creek

Mill Creek (Conestoga River)

Mill Creek is a tributary of the Conestoga River in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in the United States.Mill Creek joins the Conestoga River near the community of Lyndon.-References:...

 in the Lancaster County Park in Lancaster County

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Lancaster County, known as the Garden Spot of America or Pennsylvania Dutch Country, is a county located in the southeastern part of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the United States. As of 2010 the population was 519,445. Lancaster County forms the Lancaster Metropolitan Statistical Area, the...

, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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, United States

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. The bridge is also known as the County Park Covered Bridge, Baer's Mill Covered Bridge, Isaac Baer’s Mill Bridge, Keystone Mill Covered Bridge, Binder Tongue Carrier Covered Bridge, and Mill 2A Covered Bridge. The bridge is accessible to road traffic from within the park.

The bridge has a single span, wooden, double burr arch trusses design with the addition of steel hanger rods. The deck is made from oak planks. It is painted red, the traditional color of Lancaster County covered bridges, on both the inside and outside. Both approaches to the bridge are painted in red with white trim.

The bridge's WGCB

World Guide to Covered Bridges

The World Guide to Covered Bridges is a covered bridge numbering system. The system was invented by John Diehl, the chairman of the Ohio Covered Bridge Committee. The committee first used the numbering system in 1953 to publish a list of covered bridges in Ohio....

 Number is 38-36-03. Unlike most historic covered bridges in the county, it is not listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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. It is located at 40°0′48.6"N 76°16′59.9"W (40.0151, -76.2822).

History

The bridge was built in 1876 by W. W. Upp over the Conestoga River

Conestoga River

The Conestoga River, also referred to as Conestoga Creek, is a tributary of the Susquehanna River flowing through the center of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.-Geography:...

. In 1972, it was damaged by the floodwaters caused by Hurricane Agnes

Hurricane Agnes

Hurricane Agnes was the first tropical storm and first hurricane of the 1972 Atlantic hurricane season. A rare June hurricane, it made landfall on the Florida Panhandle before moving northeastward and ravaging the Mid-Atlantic region as a tropical storm...

. It was repaired by David Esh in 1975 and moved to its present location in the Lancaster County Park over Mill Creek, a tributary

Tributary

A tributary or affluent is a stream or river that flows into a main stem river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean...

 of the Conestoga River.

Dimensions

• Length: 94 feet (28.7 m) span
  Span (architecture)
  Span is the distance between two intermediate supports for a structure, e.g. a beam or a bridge.A span can be closed by a solid beam or of a rope...
  
  and 90 feet (27.4 m) total length
• Width: 11 feet 8 inches (3.6 m) clear deck and 15 feet (4.6 m) total width
• Overhead clearance: 11 feet 6 inches (3.5 m)
• Underclearance: 19 feet 6 inches (5.9 m)