The Albany Covered Bridge, a wooden covered bridge over the Swift River built in 1858, just off the highway on Passaconaway Road.
Watch for the signed left turn onto Passaconaway Road in just a moment, because down that short spur, spanning the Swift River, stands the Albany Covered Bridge — a beautiful wooden covered bridge built back in eighteen fifty-eight, more than a hundred and sixty years ago, and you can still drive right through it. You might wonder why on earth they roofed a bridge — it wasn't for the travelers' comfort. It was to protect the great wooden trusses underneath from rain and snow and rot; a covered bridge can last a century or more, where a bare wooden one might rot away in a decade or two. New England kept building them long after the rest of the country moved to iron, and this is one of the loveliest survivors. Picture a horse and wagon clopping through that dim wooden tunnel with the river rushing below. We're into the last few miles now, the forest beginning to open toward the town of Conway.