Covered Bridge Festival 2024 Iowa Usa. Organizers are hoping people turn out this weekend for the 53rd madison county covered bridge festival. It will be the first festival since a deadly tornado tore.
The first madison county covered bridge festival was held in 1970, started by a group of active and passionate citizens. Madison county is the covered bridge capital of iowa, with the largest group of covered bridges that exists in one area in the western half of the mississippi valley.