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Creamery Covered Bridge

Creamery Covered Bridge is a covered bridge in Vermont, at a modelled elevation of 121 m. Jolly Mountain stands 615 m to the southwest, 8.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Creamery Bridge Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Molly Stark Scenic Byway runs past it.

The story

The Creamery Covered Bridge is a historic covered bridge in West Brattleboro, Vermont. Now closed to traffic, the Town lattice truss bridge formerly carried Guilford Road across Whetstone Brook, just south of Vermont Route 9. Built in 1879, it is Brattleboro's last surviving 19th-century covered bridge.

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Dates from 1879.

Wikidata Q22073301, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

What the record says

Built
1879

How to reach it

Coordinates42.84976, -72.58581

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Creamery Bridge Park: 0.0 mi
  • Whetsone Park: 0.4 mi
  • Living Memorial Park: 0.4 mi
  • Crowell Playground: 0.9 mi
  • Lynch Park: 1.1 mi
Museums: 28
Cliffs: 21
  • Mine Ledge: 2.6 mi
  • Table Rock: 14.8 mi
  • Mine Ledge: 16.1 mi
  • Troy Cliffs: 17.8 mi
  • Rose Ledge Upper Tier: 18.3 mi
Historic sites: 21
  • Hinsdale Raceway: 4.0 mi
  • Massachusetts-Vermont Border Monument: 9.3 mi
  • New Hampshire/Vermont/Massachusetts Tri-State Granite Marker: 10.7 mi
  • Oya Hill: 16.2 mi
  • Gravity Foundation Monument: 16.4 mi
Attractions: 16
  • Parrish Shoes Sign (Jumanji): 16.6 mi
  • Wolves Den: 16.9 mi
  • rock overhang: 16.9 mi
  • rock scramble: 17.0 mi
  • hole in wall: 17.1 mi
Artworks: 11
  • Molly Stark: 14.5 mi
  • Reaching: 16.3 mi
  • Aurora: 16.4 mi
  • Trinity Bicycle Shop: 16.4 mi
  • Baseball: 16.5 mi
Waterfalls: 10
Beaches: 7
  • Green Mountain Beach: 11.8 mi
  • The Ledges: 14.7 mi
  • Richmond Town Beach at Cass Pond: 18.0 mi
  • Fitzwilliam Town Beach on Laurel Lake: 23.5 mi
  • Corona Beach: 23.9 mi
Covered bridges: 4
Picnic sites: 3
Gardens: 2
Ghost towns: 2

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 9.8 miles of Creamery Covered Bridge. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Jolly MountainSW 235°615 m8.6 mi
Blue MountainWSW 253°610 m9.1 mi
Lyman HillW 275°607 m7.4 mi
Central MountainW 281°607 m8.1 mi
Chase HillWSW 255°567 m6.5 mi
Prospect HillSW 231°552 m9.6 mi
Dummerston HillNW 311°500 m5.5 mi
Governors MountainWSW 249°497 m4.5 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5518:2519:03
June solstice05:1319:5020:33
September equinox06:3818:1218:50
December solstice07:1915:3416:20

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 5080 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F202331435564696860483727
Precip in3.12.83.43.43.84.44.54.34.34.93.53.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Keene, 15 mi away.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

National Register of Historic Places, reference 73000202OpenStreetMapWikidata
  • National Register of Historic Places — Creamery Covered Bridge, reference 73000202, listed 08/28/73.

OpenStreetMap element way/1087081066

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