Parvin Covered Bridge

The Parvin Bridge crosses Lost Creek near the community of Dexter, southeast of Eugene, close to the Lowell and Dexter reservoir area. Built in 1921, the 75-foot Howe truss span is one of the older covered bridges surviving in Lane County, constructed a decade before the wave of Depression-era spans that make up much of the county's collection. Named for an early local family, the bridge served rural farm and timber traffic through the Lost Creek valley for decades and remains in a largely rural, low-traffic setting today. Like other Lane County bridges from this era, it uses vertical board-and-batten siding and a simple gabled roofline designed to shield the wooden Howe truss from the region's persistent winter rain, a maintenance strategy that has allowed many of the county's early spans to survive a century of use. Added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 29, 1979, the Parvin Bridge remains open to vehicle traffic and is one of the lesser-known stops for enthusiasts exploring the full extent of Lane County's covered bridge network beyond the more heavily visited Cottage Grove and McKenzie River clusters.