Timber bridge
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A timber bridge or wooden bridge is a bridge that uses timber or wood as its principal structural material. One of the first forms of bridge, those of timber have been used since ancient times.
The Beam bridge
Trestles are useful as approaches to bridges over marshes and shallows
Holzbrücke Rapperswil-Hurden, a modern bridge on the route of one of the oldest known timber bridges.
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Covered bridge
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A covered bridge is a timber-truss bridge with a roof, decking, and siding, which in most covered bridges create an almost complete enclosure. The purpose of the covering is to protect the wooden stru
The Cogan House Covered Bridge, Pennsylvania
Spreuer Bridge in Lucerne
Schuylkill Permanent Bridge in Philadelphia, the first documented covered bridge in America
Covered bridge in Macon, Georgia, 1877