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At Glimmerglass State Park, America’s Oldest Covered Bridge Turns 200

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This year’s 200th anniversary of the Hyde Hall covered bridge in Glimmerglass State Park near Cooperstown, the oldest covered bridge still standing in America, is being celebrated on October 11, 2025. It’s all traceable to one man: George Clarke.

Portrait of George Clarke, seated at a table with a book, dressed in early 19th-century attire, with a curtain and landscape view in the background.
Portrait of George Clarke, painted in 1829, by Samuel F.B. Morse. In the collection of the Saint Louis Art Museum. Clarke commissioned Hyde Hall and the innovative covered bridge leading to it, now the oldest covered bridge still standing in the country.
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