🌉 Fisher Railroad Covered Bridge

Built in 1908 by the Boston and Maine Railroad for the St. Johnsbury and Lamoille County Railroad, the Fisher Bridge is a rare double-web Town lattice railroad bridge with a full-length monitor cupola along its roof to let steam-locomotive smoke escape. Threatened with replacement by a steel truss in 1968, it was instead saved by adding a pier and four steel girders under the deck. At its 1974 National Register listing it was the last covered bridge in the United States still carrying railroad traffic; the railroad abandoned the line in 1994, and the bridge is now part of a park and the Lamoille Valley Rail Trail. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 1, 1974.

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Bridge facts compiled from the National Register of Historic Places, the Vermont Covered Bridge Society and town histories. Map pin is approximate.