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This list of Oregon covered bridges contains the 51 historic covered bridges remaining in the U.S. state of Oregon. Most covered bridges in Oregon were built between 1905 and 1925. At the height of their use, there were an estimated 450 covered bridges in Oregon, which had dwindled to 56 by 1977. [1] As of 2021, there were only 49 remaining.
The Ritner Creek Bridge was the last covered bridge on a state highway in Oregon. It carried Oregon Route 223 (OR 223) over Ritner Creek between Pedee and Kings Valley, about 15 miles (24 km) south of Dallas, or 10 miles (16 km) north of the junction with U.S. Route 20 (US 20) in Wren. Built in 1927, in 1976 the bridge was lifted from its ...
Lane County was the first Oregon county to build covered bridges on a large scale. Today, the county has more surviving covered bridges than any other county west of the Mississippi River, with a total of 17 bridges, including 14 that are still open to traffic. The county's engineering division maintains the covered bridges that are open to ...
The Grave Creek Bridge is a covered bridge in Josephine County in the U.S. state of Oregon. [1] It carries Sunny Valley Loop Road over Grave Creek about 15 miles (24 km) north of Grants Pass and within sight of Interstate 5 (I-5). [1] Built in 1920, it originally carried U.S. Route 99, the Pacific Highway. The only remaining covered bridge in ...
The original bridge, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from the ocean, once carried the main north–south route along the coast. Newer bridges later carried most of the north–south traffic and, after a concrete bridge bypassed the Drift Creek Bridge in the 1960s, Lincoln County preserved it as a pedestrian crossing and a monument to 19th-century ...
The Pengra Bridge is a covered bridge near Jasper in the U.S. state of Oregon. [1] The 120-foot (37 m) Howe truss structure carries Place Road over Fall Creek in Lane County. [2] It replaced an earlier bridge, built in 1904, that crossed the creek a few feet further upstream. [2] Pengra Bridge was named in honor of Byron J. Pengra, a government ...
The Rock O' the Range Bridge, also called the Swalley Canal Bridge, is a bridge located north of Bend, Oregon, U.S., on a street adjacent to U.S. Route 97. It is the only covered span in the state of Oregon on the east side of the Cascade Range. It is also one of very few privately owned covered bridges in Oregon. [3]
Sandy Creek Bridge is a covered bridge spanning Sandy Creek near the community of Remote in southwestern Oregon in the United States. [2] The bridge crosses the creek near its mouth on the Middle Fork Coquille River in Coos County. [3] Built in 1921, the bridge carried Oregon Route 42 over the creek until bypassed by a newer bridge in 1949. [4]