Pisgah Covered Bridge

Pisgah Covered Bridge crosses the West Fork Branch of the Little River inside the Uwharrie National Forest near the Pisgah community in Randolph County. Built in 1911 by local builder J. J. Welch for a remarkably modest $40, the one-lane, 54-foot bridge was a simple, practical crossing built at the low end of even the era's construction costs, using a modified Queen truss design suited to the small budget and the modest span required.

Despite its low-cost origins, the bridge earned lasting recognition, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. It's one of only two covered bridges left standing in North Carolina, alongside the more architecturally unusual Bunker Hill Covered Bridge to the west, and its setting inside a national forest gives it a quieter, more secluded character than most surviving covered bridges — a modest wooden crossing that has outlasted more than a century of North Carolina's road-building history.