Best's Covered Bridge, Brownsville

Name: Best's Covered Bridge
Address: Brownsville, United States

#4 among attractions in Brownsville

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Best's Covered Bridge is a historic covered bridge in West Windsor, Vermont, that carries Churchill Road over Mill Creek, just south of Vermont Route 44. Built in 1889, it is an architecturally distinctive laminated arch structure with a post-and-beam superstructure. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. ()

Coordinates: 43°27'19"N, 72°30'59"W

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West WindsorBrownsville United States

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Best's Covered Bridge – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Mount Ascutney, Ascutney Mountain Resort, Cavendish Universalist Church, Bowers Covered Bridge.

3.2 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Trail
Mount Ascutney, Brownsville
82 min walk • Mount Ascutney is a mountain and inactive volcano in the U.S. state of Vermont. At 3,144 feet, it is the second-highest peak in Windsor County. Mount Ascutney is a monadnock that rises abruptly from the surrounding lowlands.
2.6 miE
Winter sport, Ski area
Ascutney Mountain Resort, Brownsville
66 min walk • Ascutney Mountain Resort was a downhill ski area on the western side of Mount Ascutney in Brownsville, Vermont that operated from 1946 until 2010.
6.6 miSW
Church, Greek Revival architecture
Cavendish Universalist Church, Cavendish
170 min walk • Cavendish Universalist Church is a historic church building on Vermont Route 131 in Cavendish, Vermont. It was built in 1844 by Scottish immigrant stonemasons, using a "snecked" ashlar stone finish that is rare in the state outside the immediate area.
1.4 miE
Bridge
Bowers Covered Bridge, Brownsville
35 min walk • The Bowers Covered Bridge is a historic covered bridge, carrying Bible Hill Road across Mill Brook in the Brownsville section of West Windsor, Vermont.
6.8 miSW
Bridge
Spaulding Bridge, Cavendish
175 min walk • The Spaulding Bridge is a historic Parker pony truss bridge carrying Mill Street across the Black River in Cavendish, Vermont. Built in 1905, it is one of the state's few surviving examples of a metal truss bridge built before state aid and standardization of bridge types became widespread in Vermont.
7 miSW
Gothic Revival architecture
Glimmerstone, Cavendish
178 min walk • Glimmerstone is a historic mansion house on Vermont Route 131, west of the village center of Cavendish, Vermont. Built 1844–47, it is a distinctive example of Gothic Revival architecture, built using a regional construction style called "snecked ashlar" out of locally quarried stone flecked with mica.
4.8 miNW
Town
Reading
124 min walk • Reading is a town in Windsor County, Vermont, United States. The population was 687 at the 2020 census.