Antelope Creek Bridge

The Antelope Creek Bridge now stands beside Eagle Point's veterans memorial in Covered Bridge Park, though it began life in 1922 built by brothers Wes and Lyle Hartman to carry the old Medford-Crater Lake Road, today's Highway 62, over Antelope Creek north of Medford. Once a newer span replaced it on that route, the bridge sat unused and slowly deteriorated until 1987, when volunteers dismantled it piece by piece and reassembled it several miles away over Little Butte Creek in Eagle Point, a full physical relocation rather than a simple repair. The move backfired administratively: restoration work added side windows that weren't part of the bridge's original design, and the National Park Service delisted it from the National Register of Historic Places in 1988 as a result. It took 24 years for the alterations to be corrected and the bridge to earn its way back onto the Register in 2012. Notable for its cantilevered buttresses, ribbon-style openings under the eaves, and semi-circular portal openings, the modified queenpost truss bridge is open only to foot traffic today, serving as a quiet historic centerpiece of its adopted park.