Quick Trip Nets 3 Local Bridges

We took a little ride to get some dinner at the Burger Barn in Jeffersonville today.  On our way there we stopped at the covered bridge just visible from the west side of the Wrong Way bridge in Cambridge village.  The bridge is known as the Gates Farm Bridge.  At one time it was called the Little Bridge when it use to sit next to the much more impressive Cambridge Bridge (now at the Shelburne Museum.)  It has been moved twice, once during the flood of 1927 where it was pushed downstream 20 feet and once when the course of the Seymour River was changed and the farmer still need to get to his field.  The Gates Farm Bridge is a Burr arch bridge.  A design created by Theodore Burr has parallel arches and king post timbers that allow the bottom of the bridge to be flat.

Gates Farm Bridge

The Gates Farm Bridge is a Burr arch bridge.

Next we headed a little way up route 108 toward Smuggler's Notch.  Not too far out of Jeffersonville on the left is Canyon Road.  A tenth of a mile down the road is the Scott Bridge over the Brewster River.  There is a nice little park next to the bridge overlooking the river.

Scott Bridge in Jeffersonville

The Scott Bride all has a Burr Arch.

Our final bridge of the evening was the Poland Bridge or the Cambridge Junction Bridge.  Sometimes it is even called the Kissing Bridge.  It is 152.9 feet long, one of the longest covered bridges in Vermont. The bridge is blocked to vehicle traffic.

Cambridge Junction Bridge over the Lamoille RIver.

We liked the raised railings down the sides to keep traffic in the center of the bridge.