This 112 Year Old Trestle Bridge Isn’t Used By Trains Anymore, But It’s Anything But Abandoned

This slice of history offers plum views of the Delaware River and all the red elderberries you can forage

The view through the bushes, across the train tracks on the Pennsylvania side of this sweet relic

What do you like to do for fun? My husband, toddler and I love to scurry around the woods like a bunch of squirrels, finding things that have been forgotten about, buried under a century or brush, slowly rotting into oblivion. We also like to see the various animals and insects, too.

This bridge is out in the open, and we’ve driven past and under it many, many times. On a few occasions, we even tried to go find a way to access it, but were unsuccessful. We had hoped to try to drive across it, which was our first mistake. The bridge, a former train trestle, in fact, is very accessible, but only by foot. The tracks that used to cross it are long gone (though some wooden beams are still lying along the side of the trail in the woods), and only the coarse grey stones that used to pad the tracks are left in its place providing a sturdy trail any curious venturer can follow from New Jersey to Pennsylvania, or vice versa.

My son and husband pose in front of the ancient, picturesque water gap.