About
Glen Hope Covered Bridge carries Hickory Hill Road over Little Elk Creek west of Lewisville in Elk Township, Chester County, less than half a mile north of the Maryland line. It is a Burr truss bridge built in 1889 and the southernmost covered bridge in Chester County. Wikipedia and Uncovering PA give its length as 65 ft, while coveredbridges.net gives 78 ft. County Lines magazine listed it in 2025 among Chester County bridges open to cars.
History
Menander Wood and George E. Jones built the bridge in 1889. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 10, 1980, as part of the Covered Bridges of Chester County nomination. Vandals burned it in 1987, and it was restored by 1994.
Design
The Burr truss pairs a timber arch with a multiple kingpost truss. Glen Hope has vertical plank siding and window openings at the eaves.
Visiting
The bridge is on Hickory Hill Road southeast of Oxford. Uncovering PA notes some room to pull off on the north side of the road, about 100 yards from the bridge.
Sources: Glen Hope Covered Bridge (Wikipedia), Glen Hope Covered Bridge (coveredbridges.net), Visiting the covered bridges of Chester County (Uncovering PA)
Photo: Smallbones, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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