Day 4 - Wiggly Bridge and Steedman Woods
This morning was cloudy here but we took our morning walk at the Wiggly Bridge & Steedman Woods Loop Trail near York Harbor. The trail leads across a man-made causeway on the York River and across the Wiggly Bridge over to Steedman Woods. The bridge is probably the world’s smallest suspension bridge, built in the 1930’s, and actually does wiggle when you walk across it. It is a steel structure with an arched wooden deck that spans 75 feet between the towers. There were pretty views of the York River and fishing boats in the harbor followed by a short jaunt through a beautiful patch of forest. Steedman Woods is a nature reserve on a forested peninsula, surrounded by the York River and Barrell’s Mill Pond. According to the sign, “Richard Steedman gave the land to Old York in 1978 to be kept ‘forever wild’”.