Mount Zion Covered Bridge

Mount Zion Covered Bridge, near Mooresville, Kentucky, spanned the Little Beech Fork on Kentucky Route 458 for about 150 years and became one of the state's best-known covered bridges. Built in 1871 and also called the Beech Fork and Mooresville bridge, it was long regarded as Kentucky's longest multi-span covered bridge, though records disagreed on its exact length. Once described as a Burr truss, restoration work from 2015 to 2017 reclassified it as a multiple kingpost truss with added arches, revealing an early structural change. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, it later served as a tourist attraction before fire destroyed it in 2021.

Kentucky · United States