Kingsley Covered Bridge

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Kingsley Covered Bridge is a covered bridge in Vermont, at a modelled elevation of 211 m. Killington Peak stands 1,293 m to the northeast, 8.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Clarendon Gorge Wildlife Management Area, a nature reserve 0.9 miles away. Crossroad of Vermont Byway passes 6.2 miles off.
The story
The Kingsley Covered Bridge (also called the Mill River Bridge) is a wooden covered bridge carrying East Street across the Mill River in Clarendon, Vermont. Built about 1870, it is the town's only surviving 19th-century covered bridge. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
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Wikidata Q6413300, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Weight limit
- 3 st
How to reach it
- 6.2 mi off the Crossroad of Vermont Byway
- 9.4 mi off the Scenic Route 100 Byway
- 13.2 mi off the Stone Valley Byway
- 18.2 mi off the Lakes to Locks Passage, National
Overlooks nearby
- Overlook View · 18 mi
- Lincoln Covered Bridge · 19 mi
- Mt Tom · 22 mi
- Martin's Mill Covered Bridge · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Round Hill: 2.5 mi
- Button Hill: 3.4 mi
- Granite Hill: 3.6 mi
- Flat Rock: 3.7 mi
- Bear Mountain: 3.7 mi
- Wallingford Main Street Historic District: 4.0 mi
- Whites Memorial Park: 5.4 mi
- Tinmouth Channel Wildlife Management Area: 5.6 mi
- Justin Thomas Memorial Park: 5.7 mi
- Main Street Park: 5.9 mi
- Paul P Harris: 4.0 mi
- Old Stone Shop: 4.2 mi
- Wilson Castle: 7.6 mi
- Edward Hastings Ripley: 8.8 mi
- Doug Casella: 8.8 mi
- Clarendon Gorge Wildlife Management Area: 0.9 mi
- VT State Land: 9.6 mi
- Giffords Woods State Park: 12.3 mi
- Friends of Haystack: 15.3 mi
- TNC (Future): 15.8 mi
- Norman Rockwell Museum: 7.2 mi
- Community Historical Museum of Mount Holly: 9.7 mi
- Vermont Marble Museum: 10.8 mi
- President Calvin Coolidge Museum and Educational Center: 11.1 mi
- New England Maple Museum: 14.0 mi
- Lower Tier: 11.1 mi
- Upper Tier: 11.1 mi
- Deer Leap: 11.2 mi
- Top Rock: 11.2 mi
- Blueberry Ledges: 13.7 mi
- Mead's Falls: 6.5 mi
- Irene Falls: 8.3 mi
- Otter Creek Falls: 10.7 mi
- Buttermilk Upper Falls: 12.2 mi
- Buttermilk Middle Falls: 12.3 mi
- Pine Hill Park: 7.4 mi
- Beast Mountain Coaster: 10.1 mi
- Ballard Farm: 12.1 mi
- Taylor Farm: 20.6 mi
- Site of Original Burton Snowboard Factory and Shop: 21.5 mi
- Rutland Water Fountain: 6.0 mi
- The Leash Sculpture: 6.0 mi
- Oculus: 6.8 mi
- Mandala II: 13.3 mi
- Chiseled Slate monoliths: 14.7 mi
- Gorham Covered Bridge: 11.8 mi
- Best's Covered Bridge: 21.8 mi
- Middle Covered Bridge: 22.2 mi
- South Pomfret Covered Bridge: 22.3 mi
- Upper Falls Covered Bridge: 22.7 mi
- Southeast Community Garden: 5.3 mi
- Northwest Community Garden: 6.6 mi
- Northeast Community Garden: 6.6 mi
- Japanese Garden: 14.9 mi
- Manchester Community Garden: 24.3 mi
- Vermont Welcome Center: 18.1 mi
- Spruce Peak Shelter Spring: 24.0 mi
- Stoughton Pond Recreation Area: 24.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.1 miles of Kingsley Covered Bridge. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Killington Peak | NE 47° | 1,293 m | 8.2 mi |
| Pico Peak | NNE 33° | 1,206 m | 9.6 mi |
| Little Killington | NE 51° | 1,194 m | 7.5 mi |
| Mendon Peak | NE 44° | 1,170 m | 6.8 mi |
| Skye Peak | NE 50° | 1,158 m | 9.1 mi |
| Shrewsbury Peak | ENE 61° | 1,122 m | 7.8 mi |
| Ramshead Peak | NE 40° | 1,100 m | 9.2 mi |
| Snowdon Peak | NE 43° | 1,095 m | 8.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:56 | 18:26 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:12 | 19:53 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 06:40 | 18:13 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 07:22 | 15:32 | 16:19 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 19 | 21 | 30 | 43 | 55 | 64 | 68 | 66 | 58 | 47 | 36 | 26 |
| Precip in | 2.7 | 2.2 | 2.7 | 3.1 | 3.6 | 4.3 | 4.6 | 4.0 | 3.4 | 4.0 | 2.8 | 3.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Rutland, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
National Register of Historic Places, reference 74000257OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata- National Register of Historic Places — Kingsley Covered Bridge, reference 74000257, listed 02/12/74.
OpenStreetMap element way/1052543872
Day trips start here
- Woodstock · 22 mi
- Brownsville · 24 mi
- Quechee · 27 mi
- Windsor · 28 mi
- Cornish · 29 mi
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