The 1954 Irish Bend Covered Bridge is a wooden covered bridge located near Corvallis, in Benton County, Oregon. The 60-foot-long (18 m) Howe truss bridge crossing Oak Creek was built using a standard Highway Division design dating back to the 1920s. It originally spanned a slough of the Willamette River on Irish Bend Road near Monroe. The span may originally have been constructed over the Long Tom River about 30 miles to the south and later moved to the Irish Bend site, but research on this issue is ongoing.

In 1975, however, following the installation of two large culverts, Irish Bend Road was realigned, and the bridge fell into a state of disrepair to eventually be dismantled in 1988 to make way for a more modern concrete span.

Benton County and Oregon State University (OSU) agreed to reconstruct the bridge on University property. $30,000 was raised by the Irish Bend Advisory Committee, and Benton County provided an additional $30,000 to fund the project, which was completed in 1989. Because no maintenance had been performed for more than 15 years, many of the timbers had rotted. New stringers were donated by a local mill, and an engineering firm provided the foundation without charge. Due to its relocation, the bridge was removed from the National Register in 1989, but later in 2013 it was relisted.

Today, the bridge is part of a path through the research farm between 35th and 53rd Streets on the west side of the OSU campus, spanning Oak Creek. Although the property is owned by the university, maintenance is carried out by the Benton County Parks Department, since the bridge is part of a bicycle and pedestrian path along Oak Creek.

The Irish Bend Bridge was originally added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. Delisted in 1989, then relisted in 2013.

Located at:  N44 33.992   W123 18.048       -       WGCB #37-02-09

Photographed in May of 2025

Photos by Millard Farmer