Honey Run Bridge is a wooden covered bridge on Honey Run Road located about halfway in between Chico and Paradise in northern California. It is one of the few covered bridges left in California and is the only tri-span bridge in the United States. The Bridge was originally built in 1886 by George Miller and was later covered in 1894. The bridge crosses Butte Creek and intersects with Centerville Road in Butte County, California. It was open to traffic until a car crashed into it in 1965, causing it to collapse on the eastern span. An alternative steel bridge was built upstream for vehicular traffic; the old bridge is part of a county park and is used by pedestrians.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 23, 1988.
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