The Danley Covered Bridge, built in 1887, is in West Finley Township. The builder of the structure is unknown. The "Queenpost Truss" was utilized in the construction of the bridge.

The length is 39 feet and the width is 11 feet 7 inches. Washington County owns and maintains the structure and landscape around the bridge. The Danley crosses Robinson Fork, Wheeling Creek, and is open to vehicles.

The Danley is located along a gravel township road in a hidden valley of Washington County. The Danley is covered with vertical plank siding on both sides and portals and has a sheet metal gable roof. It also has a plain, box-like appearance, painted barn red both inside and out.  The bridge also has a deck of crosswise planking and two rectangular windows on each side, as well as the typical eave openings. The Danley Bridge rests on stone and mortar abutments with stone and mortar wing walls on one end and concrete wing walls on the other side. The deck is also supported by two sets of wooden timbers that rest in the streambed. It is thought that this bridge, and others like it, were the handiwork of local carpenters. The timbers in the Queenpost Truss construction of the bridge are all sawn, which indicates the date of the bridge's construction is post-1860. Records indicate it was closed temporarily between 1996 and 2000 for restoration.

Of the 1,500 covered bridges that once stood in the state of Pennsylvania, approximately 200 remain as of 2019.

Danley Bridge was posted to the National Register of Historic Places on June 22, 1979.

Located at:  N40 03.307   W80 26.370        -        WGCB #38-63-11

Photographed in September of 2008

Photos by Millard Farmer