Lets take a visit to the the Lovejoy Covered Bridge in Andover Maine.

— locals just call it the Andover covered bridge — and it’s a little gem tucked in South Andover, about a half-hour north of you in Bethel.

You’ll find it on Covered Bridge Road crossing the Ellis River at Lovejoy Covered Bridge.
Quick facts

• Built in 1868 to replace an earlier crossing, it cost the town $743.45 in taxes
• It’s Maine’s shortest covered bridge: 70 feet long, 20 feet wide, with a 17-foot roadway inside
• Paddleford truss design — a New England timber truss you don’t see many of anymore — sitting on big granite block abutments
• Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, one of only nine covered bridges left in the state
• About 9 miles north of US Route 2, right where the Ellis River narrows on the old road between Rumford Point and Andover village
  Why it’s called Lovejoy
  The name comes from the Lovejoy house that once stood on the east bank. The bridge has always been a workhorse, not a showpiece. In 1936 two boys tried to canoe under it when the Ellis was running just inches below the deck — the current sucked their canoe through, and a local guide had to fish them out. Then in 1983 a heavy sand truck fell right through the deck. Maine DOT rebuilt and reinforced it in 1984 so it could keep carrying local traffic
  Visiting from Bethel
  It’s an easy back-roads drive up Route 5 through Roxbury to South Andover. The bridge is still open to cars (one lane, go slow), and there’s a little pull-off for photos. People love it in fall for the foliage reflected in the Ellis, and because it’s off the main tourist loop you usually get it to yourself.
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