Parks Covered Bridge
One of Tennessee's four historic covered bridges

• Bible Covered Bridge
• Doe River Covered Bridge
• Harrisburg Covered Bridge

Parks Covered Bridge
Parks Covered Bridge is the only one of Tennessee's four historic covered bridges located in the western portion of the state. Parks Covered Bridge is located in south central Obion County, approximately 20 miles from Union City. Originally, it was located between U.S. 51 (State Route 3 to the west) and State Route 211 (to the east) just north of the Dyer-Gibson County line (Trimble Quad, 428 NW), about one mile north of Trimble. Until 1997, it was located on private property and not open to the public, and the bridge spanned the Obion River Drainage Canal. In 1997, due to erosion at the original site that had endangered the historic bridge, the community salvaged as much material as possible and rebuilt the bridge in a city park, Parks Plaza, in nearby Trimble.

Parks Covered Bridge

According to Mr. Hamilton Parks of Trimble, his grandfather Emerson E. Parks built this bridge around 1904. The Parks or Trimble Covered Bridge, originally spanned a drainage ditch dividing two fields on Parks' farm. Although the bridge's primary purpose was agricultural, local traffic used it until 1928, when the highway department built a state route with a modern bridge nearby. The bridge remained on the Trimble farm until its relocation in 1997.