The Pengra Bridge is a 120-foot Howe truss covered bridge spanning Fall Creek in Lane County, Oregon. Built in 1938 by master bridge builder Gust Lium, it stands along Fox Hollow Road near the community of Jasper — one of several covered bridges clustered in the rolling foothills east of Eugene that have made Lane County the covered bridge capital of Oregon.
The bridge is finished in the characteristic white-painted vertical board siding common to Lane County structures of the era, with open portals that frame a distinctive view of the surrounding fir forest and creek. It remains open to one-way vehicle traffic and is a popular stop on the Lane County covered bridge tour route.
Pengra Bridge was designed and constructed in 1938 by Gust Lium, a Norwegian-born craftsman who built several of Lane County's most enduring covered bridges during the 1930s and 1940s. Lium employed the Howe truss system — a design combining timber compression members with steel tension rods — that was well suited to the region's abundant old-growth Douglas fir and the engineering knowledge of local crews.
The bridge takes its name from Byron J. Pengra, an early Oregon pioneer and surveyor who served as Surveyor General of Oregon in the 1860s and played a central role in laying out the military road through the Cascades that would become the basis for many of the county's rural routes.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003 as part of a statewide covered bridge multiple property nomination, the Pengra Bridge has undergone preservation work to maintain its structural integrity while retaining its historic character. It remains one of the most photogenic and frequently visited of Lane County's covered bridges.





