4980N 4 Ft. Cedar Wood Garden Bridge with Side Rails, Natural

It didn’t take too long to put this bridge together and it now sits across our dry creek bed in our perennial garden. Looks pretty darn cute!

Easy to build. Ready to stain (we stained ours). Much sturdier than we thought it would be.

My landscaper put the bridge together for me. Said he reinforced a few areas. I may have inaccurately measured, so he also set up blocks to support it sitting on my dry river bed. It looks beautiful post staining it. Sturdy to walk on.

The bridge is beautiful and I stained it and put together. It took time but looks terrific!

Great little bridge. Covered a trip hazard on a walkway that is not very wide. Assembly required; took a while. Sturdy and functional.

I needed a functional footbridge for my dry creek bed but also wanted something attractive. I looked at options ranging up to $1,000 but gambled that I could reinforce this one to make it just as strong as more expensive ones. The gamble paid off and I am very satisfied. The box arrived in good shape with no broken pieces. All parts were present. A few have small cracks but with proper sealing and regular maintenance (like a wood deck) as well as the reinforcing I did I don’t think they will open with time. The quality of the millwork is excellent for the price. If you read other reviews you will wonder if it is sturdy or somewhat weak. I think the truth is somewhere in between. Mine felt fairly sturdy once fully assembled and I did carefully and lightly walk across it to test. Since I needed mine to be functional and crossed regularly I had already decided to reinforce it. Hopefully you can see in the photos how I did it and there is another reviewer's pics that show a great approach. I braced each footboard on the underside of the bridge with 1” x 2” struts cut from pressure treated lumber. They are pegged in from the sides with wood dowels and also screwed to the footboards from underneath. You can also see I added a baseboard at each end of the bridge using 3/4” x 6” pressure treated lumber. Before assembly I stained and sealed every part with Olympic brand Elite Stain Sealant - Cedar Mountain color. All-in it was probably another $100.00 of extra supplies and with the effort I’m confident this garden bridge will hold up to regular crossing of people, lawn more, and weather. Assembly – the instructions are only one page. If you’ve put together a good number of things you should find them fairly easy to follow – but if not take your time and look at other customer photos for better visuals of how it goes together. Without all the extras I did I could have assembled it in 2-3 hours. With all the extras I spent about 12 hours. Last - the lights are NOT included. They also came from Amazon: “Greluna Solar Wall Lights”

Purchased this bridge about 2 years ago from the Manbury Store. I picked this one because it said it was made of cedar and was resistant to moisture, decay and insect damage. I used a semi-transparent stain and it looked great for about a year. Had to restain and it had some damage from water and elements. Another year went by and by the second year, the wood slats for the bridge, almost half were rotted from the elements. I have a cedar wood mailbox and cedar wood fence, these are all over 10 years old and dont have any rot issues like this bridge has. It is used as a decorative bridge, but is supposed to be able to bear weight. Did not realize it as so rotted, that when i stepped on it, 3 of the slats colapsed and my foot went thru.

It’s really nice as a ornamental piece for your pond

needs lots of screws to be assembles once assembled beautiful little addition to the garden

Perfect for my small under-the-deck area. Easy to assemble without an electric drill - I used a regular screwdriver.

Great bridge . Well designed, including all the nuts & bolts. You will need to stain / clear coat the wood.

Overall a decent product for the price. I had to make some modifications to suit my needs. As others have mentioned, you should use wood glue during assembly to avoid creaks and things loosening up over time. I also had to instal some of the slats upside down because of the way they were curved - not an issue as the wood is soft enough for the screws to countersink on the back side as well (or it would be easy to bore some pilot holes as needed). I mainly needed this mini-bridge for the winter fat biking trail I like to build in my yard. There is a swale / small creek through the back of the property that almost never freezes, and that’s where I tend to sink and make a mess. I often hit this spot at speed and it’s in a slight turn as well. Because of that, I could not have the railings installed as I would most likely crash through them. The way the bridge is designed, the railing providing some structural support to the deck by reinforcing the outer two spans. It also means that crashing through the railings would most likely destroy the bridge completely by ripping the outer spans that are made of two pieces bolted together. To reinforce all 3 support spans, I installed some leftover lumber on the underside in a letter H pattern as seen in my photos. The hardware was more than long enough to do that. With this reinforcement, and glue on all contact surfaces, the bridge is rock solid and I have no issues hitting it at speed on the fat bike and bouncing the back tire off it for hours on end. For my application, you would definitely need to reinforce this bridge, as it’s not meant to be used with no railings and/or to withstand the dynamic loads of a bicycle at speed. Overall I am happy with it; it serves its purpose with the minor upgrades I made. I intend to seal it when the weather gets warmer and hope to get many years of use out of it.

I’m quite satisfied with the final product. I was feeling a little skeptical about buying a wood backyard/garden bridge online, but it’s going to look great in my yard! It took myself 40 minutes to build, not bad for a lady!