Oregon has about 50 historic covered bridges, more than any other state west of the Mississippi, and Lane County alone has about 20. Our directory lists 51.
New York's covered bridges run from the 1825 Hyde Hall Bridge near Cooperstown to the Catskills spans of Delaware, Ulster and Sullivan counties. Our directory lists 24.
Indiana has nearly 100 historic covered bridges, including the 31 of Parke County, which calls itself the Covered Bridge Capital of the World. Our directory lists 88.
West Virginia has 17 historic covered bridges, including Philippi, the only covered bridge still carrying a U.S. numbered highway. Our directory lists 16.
California's covered bridges include several from the Gold Rush era and Bridgeport, the longest single-span wooden covered bridge in the world. Our directory lists 10.
Historic covered bridges of New Hampshire, the Granite State, home to the Cornish-Windsor Bridge, the longest wooden covered bridge in the United States.
The Kapellbrücke in Lucerne is the world's oldest surviving covered truss bridge — and it nearly burned to nothing in nine minutes on an August night in 1993.
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