Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Covered bridges from a bygone era embrace a romantic view of Iowa, inspiring a bestselling novel, a Hollywood movie, and a ...

Thousands of visitors filled the streets of Winterset Saturday for the city's annual Covered Bridge Festival as a cool breeze tossed colorful autumn leaves along the downtown square. Each year, local ...

The Bridges of Madison County, popularized by Robert James Waller's novel and the subsequent film, features six historic covered bridges. The High Trestle Trail Bridge, a half-mile long former ...

WINTERSET — The Bridges of Madison County were off the regular RAGBRAI route Wednesday, but riders found them anyway. On the fourth day of the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, riders ...

WINTERSET, Iowa -- Nobody bats an eye when a tourist heavy with cameras appears along the road in this tiny rural town. More than a decade after the movie "The Bridges of Madison County" was released, ...

The Winterset Stage will present a special concert version of the Tony Award–winning musical The Bridges of Madison County during the 2025 Covered Bridge Festival, October 11–12, at the historic Iowa ...

Looks like your best bet to find a love that lasts is going to be in Winterset. The home of covered bridges was ranked as the most likely city in Iowa where a Hallmark movie might be set. Think of ...

Our first visit to Madison County, Iowa, 30 years ago, had not been planned around the now-famous 19th century covered bridges there, or the longtime annual festival that celebrates them. Back then, ...

WINTERSET, Iowa -- One of the historic covered bridges in central Iowa, the setting for Robert Waller's best-selling novel The Bridges of Madison County, was destroyed by fire, officials said ...