Mineral Springs Park Covered Bridge
Tishomingo County, Iuka. Rebuilt 1993, 45 ft. long. Marketed as Mississippi's only publicly accessible covered bridge, in a park built around a historic mineral spring.
Mineral Springs Park Covered Bridge crosses Indian Creek inside Iuka's Mineral Springs Park, a site with a history that stretches back to the 1904 World's Fair, where water from the park's natural springs won a gold medal for quality. Mississippi has no surviving 19th-century covered bridge, but this modern 45-foot span over Indian Creek has become the state's most widely promoted example, regularly billed by area tourism as "Mississippi's only covered bridge" open to the public.
A flood destroyed the original structure in 1991, and the bridge was rebuilt in 1993, restoring the crossing to its historic park setting, where it now shares grounds with picnic areas, spring-fed pools, and hiking trails in the northeastern Mississippi hill country near the Alabama and Tennessee borders. Its rebuilt form keeps the covered bridge tradition alive in a state that, unlike its Appalachian and Midwestern neighbors, never had a 19th-century timber-truss bridge-building era of its own.