About
The Randall Covered Bridge, also called the Burrington or Old Burrington Covered Bridge, stands beside Burrington Bridge Road northeast of Lyndonville, just south of Vermont Route 114. It spans the East Branch of the Passumpsic River. It is a single-span queenpost truss bridge 68 feet long and about 15 feet wide. It no longer carries the road and is closed to vehicles.
History
The bridge was built in 1865; its builder is unknown. It carried Burrington Bridge Road until 1965, when a new bridge was built upstream. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 13, 1974. The Vermont Covered Bridge Society lists a restoration in 2008.
Design
The queenpost trusses, about 13 feet apart, have iron rods running from the peaks of the diagonal bracing to the bottom chord. The bridge has a gabled roof with wide eaves, vertical board siding about halfway up the sides and a wooden plank deck.
Visiting
The bridge sits next to Burrington Bridge Road and is bypassed. Dale Travis's list describes it as closed to motor traffic and private, and no source we found describes public access.
Sources: Burrington Covered Bridge (Wikipedia), Randall Covered Bridge (Vermont Covered Bridge Society), Dale J. Travis Vermont covered bridge list
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