🌉 Holmes Creek Covered Bridge

Also called the Lakeshore Bridge, this 41-foot span by Leonard Sherman is the shortest authentic covered bridge in Vermont still carrying vehicles, sits at the state's lowest bridge elevation (about 112 feet, beside Lake Champlain at Charlotte Beach), and is one of only three tied-arch covered bridges left in Vermont. Town selectmen specified its size in the language of the day: big enough for 'a load of hay, high and wide.' In the late 1800s the Holmes family ran one of New England's largest apple orchards just southwest of the bridge, shipping fruit from a pier whose submerged pilings remain in the lake. The bridge was rehabilitated in 1993.

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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.