The Phillips Covered Bridge is southeast of Montezuma, Indiana, in Parke County, Indiana, and crosses Rocky Run, also known as Big Pond Creek. Unlike the rest of the bridges of Parke County, it is a single-span King Post bridge structure, having no arches, that was built by Joseph A. Britton in 1909.

The bridge also holds the distinction of being the shortest covered bridge in Parke County. It is a four-segment King's Post truss bridge. It took these honors in 1957 when its sister bridge, the Weisner Covered Bridge, was washed out. The Weisner Covered Bridge was built the year before the Phillips Covered Bridge by J.A. Britton, also using a four-segment King Post truss, but it was shorter than the Phillips Bridge.

The Phillips Covered Bridge is often known as the Arabia Covered Bridge because the surrounding area was known as "Little Arabia." This name may have originated from Syrian Muslim immigrants who had settled nearby. The Arabia Church had been built on the hill south of the covered bridge. The only remains of the church now, though, are a step, a foundation, and some broken stained glass. However, the church's cemetery, Arabia Cemetery, remains, and many of the headstones are inscribed with the "Phillips" name, showing that the Phillips family had been prominent in the area near the bridge. The 1908 Parke County Atlas shows that the Phillips owned all the land west and south of the bridge.

Length of largest span: 39 ft.; total length: 60 ft.; deck width: 15.1 ft.; vertical clearance above deck: 13.1 ft.

Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on December 22, 1978.

Located at:  N39 46.33   W87 19.34     -     WGCB #14-61-12

Photographed in May of 2022

Photos by Millard Farmer