The 1851 Coburn Covered Bridge is a historic covered bridge, carrying Coburn Road over the Winooski River, once called the Onion River, in eastern East Montpelier, Washington County, Vermont.  Built by Larned Coburn and given to the town in exchange for having the town road pass by his house, it is the town's only surviving 19th-century covered bridge. 

The Coburn Covered Bridge stands in far eastern East Montpelier, about 2.7 miles east of the town center. Coburn Road runs north from US Route 2, roughly paralleling the south-flowing Winooski River and eventually crossing it. The bridge is oriented east-west and is a single-span queen post truss structure with embedded iron rods. It is 69.5 feet long and 16.5 feet wide, with a roadway width of 13.5 feet (one lane), and rests on abutments of concrete and stone faced with concrete. The exterior side walls are sheathed in vertical board siding to a height of about 7 feet. The portals are sheathed to their full height in vertical siding and have segmented-arch tops. The bridge roof is metal. The roadway deck consists of three steel beams carrying a concrete floor; this is the result of work done in the 1970s.

Of the over 500 covered bridges built in Vermont, as of 2019, only 104 remain.

Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on October 9, 1974.

Located at:  N44 16.850    W72 27.253      -      WGCB #45-12-02 

Photographed in July of 2019.