The Halpin Covered Bridge, also called the High Covered Bridge, is a wooden covered bridge

Covered bridge

A covered bridge is a bridge with enclosed sides and a roof, often accommodating only a single lane of traffic. Most covered bridges are wooden; some newer ones are concrete or metal with glass sides...

 that crosses the Muddy Branch of the New Haven River in Middlebury, Vermont on Halpin Covered Bridge Road. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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 in 1974.

The bridge is of Town lattice design. It has the distinction of being the highest covered bridge above a waterway in the state (water flows a full 41' below the bridge in a small gorge). Hence the bridge's other appellation as the "High Bridge". Originally built to serve a marble quarry operation (which may explain the unusually high clearance), it now serves only one family farm: the Halpins.

Recent history

The bridge had minor repairs made in the 1960s. In 1994 the bridge had extensive work done by Jan Lewandoski. The bridge was completely removed from its crumbling marble abutments, and new concrete abutments created for it,