Last night we arrived into Milford by going under a bridge that was 11’ 6” high... Our RV is 11 feet high! We drove slowly under it.
Today was supposed to be an hour’s drive either by interstate or by backroads. In this area, backroads can be dangerous without a GPS that warns you about height, weight and width restrictions. Nevertheless…Terry insisted that we take the backroads.
After driving about a half hour, we were about to cross the Riegelsville bridge over the Delaware River into Pennsylvania when we saw the sign “Weight Restriction 3 Tons”…we’re 7 tons! We quickly veered off and pulled to the side of the road to figure out what to do. There’s not a lot of turn around areas when you hit one of these spots.
As we were contemplating our options, a local came up and said this was one of 3 bridges in the US with this open plate construction - the Brooklyn Bridge, the Cincinnati Bridge and this Riegelsville Bridge. Several weeks ago an 18-wheeler ignored the warnings and tried to plow his way across the bridge. Caused tremendous damage and was punished severely.
She recommended we turn around and follow the road along the river back to Milford, take that bridge across the Delaware River and come back up the other side BUT we’d have to go through “The Narrows” as the locals called it. It’s about 4 miles of one-lane road and there is a place where cactus grows on the rocks nowhere else on the east coast except this place. I didn’t see the cactus – I was worried about on-coming traffic, which thankfully never materialized! All in all, a white-knuckle ride in the RV.