Bartley Ranch Covered Bridge

Bartley Ranch Covered Bridge crosses Evans Creek at the entrance to Bartley Ranch Regional Park in Reno, a Washoe County park built around a working 1930s ranch property. Built in 1993, the 96-by-39-foot pedestrian span, topped with a small cupola, is the largest and most publicly accessible of Nevada's small handful of covered bridges — a state with no historic 19th-century covered-bridge tradition of its own.

Nevada's covered bridges are almost entirely private, modern stringer structures built on ranches and residential properties across the state, from a Venetian-themed span at a Las Vegas casino resort to small farm crossings in Douglas and Pershing counties. Bartley Ranch's bridge stands apart as a genuinely public landmark, greeting visitors to a park that hosts concerts, weddings, and community events on the high desert outskirts of Reno.