Drift Creek Bridge is a 66-foot Howe truss covered bridge spanning Bear Creek near Rose Lodge in Lincoln County, Oregon. Built around 1914, it is one of the oldest covered bridges on the Oregon Coast and sits in a lush coastal forest setting characteristic of the Lincoln County hill country east of Lincoln City.
The bridge carries Bear Creek Road through a forested valley where the creek winds through stands of Sitka spruce and red alder. Its 1914 construction date makes it a survivor of the earliest generation of 20th century covered bridge building in coastal Oregon, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
Drift Creek Bridge was constructed in 1914 to serve the homestead farms and small timber operations in the Drift Creek valley. The Lincoln County coast had been settled by pioneers who found the narrow creek valleys of the Coast Range suitable for small-scale farming despite the heavy rainfall.
The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 as one of Oregon's significant early covered bridges. Drift Creek itself is notable for its role in the recovery of wild coho salmon in the central Oregon Coast region.