🌉 Pine Brook Covered Bridge
Waitsfield, VT · built 1872
Photo: Steven Bergeron via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)Also called the Wilder Bridge, this small king post span is one of only two surviving 19th-century king post covered bridges in Vermont and one of two surviving covered bridges in Waitsfield. By the mid-1970s it had deteriorated so far that posts were wedged into the streambed to prop it up. Restorer Milton Graton rebuilt it in 1976-77, placing steel beams just beneath the deck as a fail-safe for overloads rather than altering the historic trusses, an approach meant to preserve the bridge's authenticity. It is also a contributing property of the Mad River Valley Rural Historic District.
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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.