Quechee George

This is Quechee Gorge, a mile long gorge cut through the hills of Vermont at the end of the last ice age.  It is a spectacular thing to see and it draws a lot of visitors.  It is 165 feet deep, and it is crossed by a wonderful steel arch bridge constructed in 1911.  Originally it was a railroad bridge.  Later it was converted to a vehicle and pedestrian bridge which now carries Route 4 over the gorge. This view is from the walkway of the bridge.  I am reading a book about the construction of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, and this bridge and the Verrazano Narrows bridge were both built by the American Bridge Company!  How's that for a coincidence!

This is a view from under the bridge.  There is a walkway that leads to a trail that runs under  the bridge and then along one side of the gorge and you can follow the trail down for a mile to a flat area, and a place where you can go swimming.

 

Here are bathers and hikers on the rocks at the end of the trail.  You can see the water where people swim at the right side of the photo.

And this is a view from the swimming hole up toward the bridge in the distance.