Little Buffalo State Park

Bring your camera on this hike. It starts out on an 82-foot-long covered bridge—and not just any covered bridge. This is a Burr Truss, patented by Theodore Burr of Connecticut, architect and builder of the longest, single-arch bridge in the world (also in Pennsylvania). How about a tour of a restored 19th Century gristmill, with one of the largest waterwheels east of the Mississippi? Take a self-guided nature tour, then walk the path of a peculiar, narrow gauge railroad on your way to an inlet where you might see a little green heron, an egret, or a blue-winged teal. End your hike at the Blue Ball Tavern, built in 1811, now the local historical society headquarters. Terrain: A series of abandoned railroad grades, pine needle nature trails, rocky footpaths, grassy paths, and blacktop lead you to a covered bridge, an historic gristmill, a nature trail through a hemlock forest, a creek side marsh, deep hollows, and an open meadow.