The 1840 Upper Falls Covered Bridge, also known as the Downers Covered Bridge, spans the Black River, carrying Upper Falls Road in western Weathersfield, Windsor County, Vermont. The Town lattice truss bridge was built in 1840 and rebuilt in 2008.

Upper Falls Bridge is a single-span Town lattice truss structure, set on one modern concrete abutment, and another of dry-laid stone that has been faced in concrete. It is 120 feet long with a gabled overhang of 4 feet at each end and is 18.5 feet wide with a roadway width of 15 feet (one lane). The sides of the bridge are clad in vertical board siding. Square window holes are cut into each side of the exterior. The bridge is covered by a metal roof. The gable ends of the portals are finished in horizontally laid boards, with partial gable returns and a triangular line of molding, a nod to Greek Revival architecture popular at the time of its construction.

The bridge was built in 1840 by James Trasker of Claremont, New Hampshire. It is distinctive among Vermont's many surviving covered bridges for the Greek Revival elements of its gables, and for the remarkably good condition of the surviving stone abutment, which has precisely laid stonework. At the time of its National Register listing in 1973, it was not in very good condition; it underwent a complete reconstruction in 2008.

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

Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on August 28, 1973.

Located at:  N43 23.907    W72 31.327     -     WGCB #45-14-08 

Photographed in July of 2019.