Fleming Bridge
Sheridan, Sheridan County. A wooden roof and siding were added over an existing steel bridge in 1994 to help retard rust, giving the Fleming Bridge over Little Goose Creek its covered-bridge look — Wyoming has no historic 19th-century covered bridges of its own.
Wyoming's covered bridges are entirely a modern phenomenon; the state never had a 19th-century tradition of building them, and most of its covered spans sit on private land, out of public view. The Fleming Bridge over Little Goose Creek in Sheridan is a rare exception — publicly visible from the road and unusual in how it came to look like a covered bridge at all.
Rather than being built from scratch as a covered structure, the Fleming Bridge began as a conventional steel span. In 1994, a wooden top was added over the original metal bridge specifically to help retard rusting — a practical maintenance decision that happened to give the 50-foot bridge the classic silhouette of a covered bridge.
Located just south of downtown Sheridan off US87, the bridge is one of the most accessible covered spans in Wyoming, even though its origin story has more to do with corrosion prevention than architectural tradition.