Bartlett Covered Bridge
— — a red barn the river runs past.
Not only on a wall.
“A 166-foot Paddleford-truss bridge over the Saco River on the western edge of Bartlett, New Hampshire, painted barn red and roofed in dark shingle. Built in 1851, retired from highway service in 1939, the bridge now houses a small gift shop and lives just off Route 302. The river below runs wide and shallow over rounded cobble, with the southern Presidentials standing twelve miles to the north. — from the studio
Bartlett Covered Bridge, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
Bartlett Covered Bridge crosses the Saco River on the western edge of Bartlett, New Hampshire, in Carroll County, just off U.S. Route 302. The bridge measures 166 feet across a single span on a Paddleford truss, the pattern devised by Peter Paddleford of Littleton in the 1840s. The structure dates to 1851 and was retired from highway service in 1939, when a steel bridge replaced it on the highway alignment. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Mount Washington and the southern Presidentials rise twelve miles to the north.
The Saco River drains the Presidential Range and runs east through Bartlett toward the Atlantic at Saco, Maine. Above the bridge the river runs shallow and wide over rounded granite cobble, dropping about ten feet per mile through this reach. The flow peaks in late April with snowmelt off Mount Washington and runs low and clear from late July through September. The pool below the bridge is a popular swimming hole through August and a put-in for tubers running down to Glen.
The bridge has not carried traffic since 1939 and is closed to vehicles. The interior houses a small private gift shop, open seasonally from late May through October, reached by a short paved drive from Route 302. Parking is free along the river bank. The Mount Washington Valley Chamber of Commerce lists the bridge among the four working historic spans in the valley alongside Albany, Saco River, and Honeymoon. No state-park fee applies; the structure is privately maintained.