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Total number of covered bridges: Over 100. The actual number
depends on your definition of a covered bridge. Some only consider covered
bridges built with trusses to be “authentic”. There are covered bridges over
private driveways, in parking lots, as well as on well traveled roads over
major rivers. The Vermont Covered Bridge Society publishes one of the
definitive books on Vermont covered bridges.
Town with the most covered bridges: Montgomery with 6,
followed by Lyndon, Northfield and Tunbridge each with 5.
Oldest
covered bridge: The Pulp Mill Bridge in Middlebury (1820) followed by
the Village, Big Eddy, or Great Eddy Bridge (1833) in Waitsfield. It should be
noted that there are a couple of covered bridges in Vermont where the building
date is unknown – the Scribner Bridge in Johnson and the Sayres Bridge in
Thetford.
Newest
covered bridge: The Ledoux Hometown Bridge and the Hitchcock-Cormier
Bridge were both built in 2008.
Longest
covered bridge: The Cornish-Windsor Bridge (449′ 5″) between Cornish, NH
and Windsor, VT is the longest covered bridge touching Vermont. The bridge is
in New Hampshire but its western terminus is on the Vermont side of the
Connecticut River. The longest bridge entirely in Vermont is the West
Dummerston Bridge (280′) in West Dummerston followed by the Scott Bridge (276′)
in Townshend.