Wendling Bridge is a 60-foot Howe truss covered bridge spanning Mill Creek near Marcola in Lane County, Oregon. Built in 1938, it takes its name from the former logging community of Wendling, established in the 1890s as a company town for the Hines Lumber operation in the upper McKenzie foothills.
The bridge carries Wendling Road through a pastoral valley northeast of Springfield, in an area that once supported one of the largest sawmill operations in the region before transitioning to a quieter agricultural character.
Wendling Bridge was built in 1938 in the former company town corridor established by George Hines' extensive logging operations in the upper McKenzie country. The Wendling townsite, named for a company executive, was home to hundreds of mill workers and their families before the timber was exhausted and the operation closed.
The bridge stands as one of the few remaining traces of the industrial and rural community that once thrived in this valley. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.