Photographs and stories by Jim Grey

Tag: Parke County Indiana

Side-by-side bridges on Narrows Road in Indiana’s Turkey Run State Park

A covered bridge and a concrete arch bridge in Turkey Run State Park in Parke County, Indiana.

22 April 2021
US 36 and the Pikes Peak Ocean-to-Ocean Highway in Montezuma, Indiana

The old highway as it passed through Montezuma, on a very different alignment from today.

29 January 2021
The original alignment of US 36 and the Pikes Peak Ocean-to-Ocean Highway in western Parke County, Indiana

A couple of old alignments of US 36 and the Pikes Peak Ocean-to-Ocean Highway in Parke County, Indiana.

22 January 2021
US 36 and the Pikes Peak Ocean-to-Ocean Highway at Indiana’s Billie Creek Village

A look at old US 36 as is passes by Billie Creek Village and over the Billie Creek Covered Bridge.

8 January 2021
Gravel alignment of US 36 and the Pikes Peak Ocean-to-Ocean Highway in Parke County, Indiana

An old alignment of US 36 in western Indiana that never got paved — it’s a gravel road!

18 December 2020
Raccoon Lake and the submerged US 36 and Pikes Peak Ocean-to-Ocean Highway

Let’s return now to my 2007 road trip along US 36 and the Pikes Peak Ocean-to-Ocean Highway in western Indiana. US 36 used to pass through the flood-prone land on either side of Big Raccoon Creek in Parke County. The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers resolved to control the flooding, and so between 1956…

11 December 2020
single frame: Inside the Bridgeton Covered Bridge

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29 June 2017