The 1850 Forksville Covered Bridge is a Burr arch truss that spans Loyalsock Creek in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania. This 152 ft. 11-inch bridge was named for the borough it is in, which in turn is named for its location at the confluence or "forks" of the Little Loyalsock and Loyalsock Creeks. It was built with multiple vertical king posts, for strength and rigidity for Sullivan County by Sadler Rogers (or Rodgers), a native of Forksville who was only 18 at the time.  The name of the bridge comes from the community of Forksville, which is on land first settled in 1794.

Although there were 30 covered bridges in Sullivan County in 1890, only five were left by 1954, and as of 2011, only three remain: Forksville, Hillsgrove, and Sonestown. All three are Burr arch truss-covered bridges and were built in 1850. Rogers built the Forksville and Hillsgrove bridges across Loyalsock Creek. Although most sources do not list the builder of the Sonestown bridge, a 1997 newspaper article on the remaining Sullivan County covered bridges reported that Rodgers had designed it too.

In the 19th century, the Forksville Covered Bridge survived major floods on March 1, 1865, and June 1, 1889, that destroyed other bridges in the West Branch Susquehanna River valley. The bridge survived another major flood on November 16, 1926, when a dam broke upstream but was "badly damaged" by an ice jam on January 23, 1959, in a flood that left blocks of ice weighing up to 500 pounds in the streets of Forksville.

The bridge was restored in 1970 and 2004 and is still in use. It had an average daily traffic of 240 vehicles in 2014. Despite the restorations, as of 2009 the bridge structure's sufficiency rating on the National Bridge Inventory was only 17.7 percent and its condition was deemed "basically intolerable requiring high priority of corrective action". It is one of three remaining covered bridges in Sullivan County, and according to Susan M. Zacher's The Covered Bridges of Pennsylvania: A Guide, its location "over the rocky Loyalsock Creek" is "one of the most attractive settings in the state."

The restoration work of 1970 was completed by T. Corbin Lewis of Hillsgrove Township, a retired electrical contractor, whose low bid of $48,000 was accepted over a Baltimore, Maryland, firm's $185,000 bid. The NBI says the bridge was "reconstructed" in 2004 but does not give further details. The entire bridge has been reinforced with steel girders, including vertical beams. In 2006 the red bridge was repainted, which took about three weeks, and in 2015, the bridge was briefly closed for $162,000 in waterproofing and concrete repairs to its abutments.

The 2009 National Bridge Inventory (NBI) lists the covered bridge as 152 feet 11 inches long, with a roadway 12 feet 2 inches wide, and a maximum load of 3.0 short tons (2.7 metric tons). As of 2011, each portal has a small sign reading "1850 Sadler Rogers" at the top, above a sign with the posted clearance height of 8.0 feet, and a "No Trucks Allowed" sign hanging below these. The covered bridge rests on the original stone abutments, which have since been reinforced with concrete. 

The bridge was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

Located at:  N41 29.30    W76 36.01     -     WGCB #38-57-01

Photographed in May 2023.