Crawfordsville Bridge, Covered bridge in Crawfordsville, Oregon.
Crawfordsville Bridge is a 105-foot Howe truss bridge over the Calapooia River beside Oregon Route 228 near Crawfordsville in Linn County, Oregon. Built in 1932, it was bypassed in 1963 and is now kept by the Linn County Parks & Recreation Department as a pedestrian crossing. A small park with a picnic table and fire pit stands next to it.
It was built in 1932 as part of Oregon's expansion of rural infrastructure during the early 20th century. The structure gained official recognition when it was added to the National Register of Historic Places nearly 50 years after its construction.
Since 1990 the bridge has hosted Bridge Day, a festival held each summer. A small park beside the span has a picnic table and fire pit, and the bridge appeared in the 1976 television movie The Flood.
You can walk across this structure and stop at the adjacent small park to picnic or rest along the riverbank. The site offers basic amenities and is easy to access for visitors looking for a brief outdoor stop.
The bridge appears in the 1976 television movie The Flood, a production that used the 1932 Howe truss as a filming location. The structure had already been bypassed for road traffic in 1963, thirteen years before the filming.
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