The Hemlock Covered Bridge is a covered bridge in a rural part of Fryeburg, in Oxford County, Maine. Built-in 1857, it carries Hemlock Bridge Road over the Old Course Saco River, near the western shore of Kezar Lake in eastern Fryeburg. It is the last surviving 19th-century covered (of seven built) in Fryeburg. A single-span Paddleford truss bridge, strengthened with laminated wooden arches, with a total length of 116 feet, its total height, from deck to gable peak, is 20 feet, with an internal clearance of 14 feet. The roadbed is 16 feet wide. The bridge rests on granite block abutments at a mean height of 15 feet above the river bed. The Old Course Saco River, which the bridge spans, is a remnant of the original course of the Saco River, which was bypassed by canal digging in the early 19th century.

In 1815 local residents successfully petitioned the state to bypass this large meander which locals described as "thirty-six miles of river and six miles of country". At this time five bridges crossed the Saco. Hemlock Bridge is the last of the seven bridges still standing and is maintained by the state. The bridge was reinforced to carry local traffic in 1988.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 and designated as a Maine Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers in 2002.

Located at:  N44 04.770    W70 54.191     -     WGCB #19-09-02

Photographed in June 2022