Terms of use

Every Covered Bridge republishes facts from United States federal records (National Park Service and Federal Highway Administration) and, where a page says so, official county inventories. Federal records are public domain; the selection, arrangement, artwork, and text of this site are © Cabin Fever Media.

Reliance

Every Covered Bridge is a directory compiled from public records — principally the National Register of Historic Places (National Park Service) and the National Bridge Inventory (Federal Highway Administration), with a small number of modern bridges carried on official county inventories. Records lag the real world: a bridge shown here may since have been posted, closed, damaged, or destroyed, and a posting or clearance shown here may have changed since the record was inspected. Nothing on this site is a promise that a bridge is open, passable, or safe for any vehicle or load. Before travelling to a bridge, and always at the bridge itself, obey posted signs, weight and clearance limits, and official state and local road information. If a sign and this site disagree, the sign is right.

Corrections

Records improve when people who know a bridge speak up. If a page here is wrong, tell us through the contact page — corrections are checked against the public record before they are published, and a fact that cannot be verified is removed rather than argued over.