Unity Covered Bridge

The Unity Bridge crosses Fall Creek near the small rural community of Unity, in the hills between Lowell and Jasper southeast of Eugene. Built in 1936 during Lane County's Depression-era covered bridge construction push, the 90-foot Howe truss span served local farm and timber traffic connecting outlying homesteads to the larger road network along the Willamette Valley's eastern edge. The bridge's setting along Fall Creek places it within the broader watershed later reshaped by the construction of Fall Creek Dam and Reservoir in the early 1960s, though the bridge itself lies outside the reservoir's inundation zone. Built with the standard weatherboard siding and shingled roofline typical of the county's covered bridge fleet, the Unity Bridge has been maintained through periodic county repair work over its more than eight decades of service. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 29, 1979, the bridge remains open to vehicle traffic today, serving as both a functioning rural crossing and one of the quieter, less-visited stops for those touring Lane County's full network of historic covered bridges.