If someone told you they painted a picture of a covered bridge and you thought they were exaggerating, wait until you see the Smolen-Gulf Covered Bridge.
This stunning structure in Ashtabula County looks so perfectly composed, so ideally situated, that your brain might briefly wonder if someone built it specifically for Instagram, except it predates Instagram by several years.
The bridge stretches 613 feet across the Ashtabula River valley, making it the longest covered bridge in the entire United States.
That’s not just the longest in Ohio, or the longest in the Midwest, but the longest in the whole country…