Covered Bridge Festival 2024 Winterset Iat. Please join us for the 2024 madison county covered bridge festival, an annual celebration of madison county's history, heritage and covered bridges, and our most popular event of the year! Winterset, iowa — you don't usually see hundreds of people around the madison county courthouse every day, but it's a special time of year — the madison.

Madison county covered bridge festival. 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.