# What famous bridges have you been across? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 1, 2025, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-bridges-have-you-been-across/1016448 "2025-04-01T09:36:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2025, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-bridges-have-you-been-across/1016448/21 "2025-04-01T13:54:38Z")
Made a detour through West Virginia on one of our Chicago → DC drives to cross the New River Gorge bridge. Website says that “The New River Gorge Bridge is the longest steel span in the western hemisphere” and who am I to argue. [![](https://www.nps.gov/npgallery/GetAsset/3f422525-8835-462a-8cbf-8d701c066ac0/) ](https://www.nps.gov/npgallery/GetAsset/3f422525-8835-462a-8cbf-8d701c066ac0/) > **[New River Gorge Bridge - New River Gorge National Park & Preserve (U.S....](https://www.nps.gov/neri/planyourvisit/nrgbridge.htm)** > > camping areas of New River Gorge While in New Mexico, we took a trip out to the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge. Not as long but still well worth the visit in my opinion. [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Rio_Grande_Gorge_Bridge.jpg) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Rio_Grande_Gorge_Bridge.jpg) > **[Rio Grande Gorge Bridge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Gorge_Bridge)** > > The Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, locally known as the "Gorge Bridge" or the "High Bridge", is a steel deck arch bridge across the Rio Grande Gorge 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Taos, New Mexico, United States. Roughly 600 feet (180 m) above the Rio Grande, it is the seventh highest bridge in the United States. > The bridge was started in 1963 and completed in 1965. It was dedicated on September 10, 1965 and is a part of U.S. Route 64, a major east–west road. The span is 1,280 feet (390 m): two 300-... Both times wasn’t just driving over but stopping to hit the visitors center, take some photos, walk out onto the pedestrian portion, etc. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2025, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-bridges-have-you-been-across/1016448/22 "2025-04-01T13:55:06Z")
Travelled over the golden gate and (less famous) bay bridge in San Francisco many times when I lived in SF. Menai bridge from Angelsey to mainland Wales many times when visiting family in Angelsey I’ve walked the top of tower bridge in London, which is pretty cool if you are visiting that neck of the woods. The rebuilt Stari Most bridge in Mostar, Bosnia: > **[Stari Most](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stari_Most)** > > Stari Most (lit. 'Old Bridge'), also known as Mostar Bridge, is a rebuilt 16th-century Ottoman bridge in the city of Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It crosses the river Neretva and connects the two parts of the city, which is named after the bridge keepers (mostari) who guarded the Stari Most during the Ottoman era. During the Croat–Bosniak War, the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina used the bridge as a military supply line, and the bridge was shelled by the Croatian Defence Co ---
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Another crosser of the Astoria-Mecklenburg bridge and the Golden Gate. Oh, the Oakland-Bay bridge and Lions Gate. I haven’t seen mention of [The Bridge of the Gods](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_of_the_Gods_(modern_structure)). Most recently famous for a Reese Witherspoon movie. One of the most scenic bridges I’ve been across is the [original one](https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/crooked-river-bridge-oregon) across the Crooked River in Central Oregon. It’s now a pedestrian bridge. ---
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Used to cross the Sunshine Skyway about once a month for work. And of course this one on the drive from Miami: > **[Seven Mile Bridge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Mile_Bridge)** > > The Seven Mile Bridge is a bridge in the Florida Keys, in Monroe County, Florida, United States. It connects Knight's Key (part of the city of Marathon, Florida) in the Middle Keys to Little Duck Key in the Lower Keys. Among the longest bridges in existence when it was built, it is part of the Overseas Highway in the Keys, which is part of the 2,369-mile (3,813 km) U.S. Route 1. > There are two bridges in this location. The modern bridge is open to vehicular traffic; the older one only to pede... ---
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When I was seven years old our family drove to Colorado for vacation. I remember walking across the Royal Gorge Bridge. I do remember it was very high. The Wiki page says it is 955 feet above the Arkansas River. Not many notable bridges around these parts of the Midwest. The only “famous” I bridge I travel across with some regularity is the Mackinac Bridge in Michigan. ---
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I’ve been over the Francis Scott Key Bridge before it famously collapsed. I was feeling groovy across the 59th St Bridge. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2025, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-bridges-have-you-been-across/1016448/27 "2025-04-01T14:37:00Z")
I’ve crossed the Key Bridge also. And the 14th Street Bridge in DC the same time Air Florida flight 90 hit it. Fortunately, I was at the opposite end, headed away from the site of the crash. ---
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I walked across the Sydney Harbor Bridge on March 18, 2003…the day protestors painted NO WAR on the Opera House. It caused quite a stir, as you might expect. ---
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I’ve not only driven across the Mackinac Bridge many times, I walked it once-- they host a bridge walk every Labor Day. That was a cool experience-- the view of the Straits of Mackinac from the bridge is amazing, and you obviously don’t get nearly as much time and opportunity to appreciate it when driving over. ---
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One of my fairly unique accomplishments is that I have walked over, driven over, sailed under and pissed off of London Bridge in _both_ of its locations. ---
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> [@silenus](#): > > …sailed under and pissed off of London Bridge Since you’ve sailed under the London Bridge, hopefully you used good discretion (not to mention good aim) when pissing off of it 😉 ---
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[Bixby Creek Bridge](https://californiathroughmylens.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Bixby-Bridge-7.jpg), hundreds of times. I grew up in the area. In high school, my friends and I would drive there at night, park the car and walk to the little bench built into the handrail at the halfway point. Sit on the bench and look for meteors. ---
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Once: > **[Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verrazzano-Narrows_Bridge)** > > The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge (/ˌvɛrəˈzɑːnoʊ/ VERR-ə-ZAH-noh; also referred to as the Narrows Bridge, the Verrazzano Bridge, and simply the Verrazzano) is a suspension bridge connecting the boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City, United States. It spans the Narrows, a body of water linking the relatively enclosed New York Harbor with Lower New York Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. It is the only fixed crossing of the Narrows. The double-deck bridge carries 13 lanes of Interstate 2... That one time was enough; road surface was in terrible condition. A few times: > **[George Washington Bridge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Bridge)** > > The George Washington Bridge is a double-decked suspension bridge spanning the Hudson River, connecting Fort Lee in Bergen County, New Jersey, with the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It is named after George Washington, a Founding Father of the United States and the country's first president. The George Washington Bridge is the world's busiest motor vehicle bridge, carrying a traffic volume of over 104 million vehicles in 2019\[update\], and is the world's only s T... Several times: > **[Woodrow Wilson Bridge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson_Bridge)** > > The Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge, also known as the Woodrow Wilson Bridge or the Wilson Bridge, is a bascule bridge that spans the Potomac River between Alexandria, Virginia and Oxon Hill, Maryland in Prince George's County, Maryland. The original bridge was one of only a handful of drawbridges in the Interstate Highway System. It contained the only portion of the Interstate System owned and operated by the federal government until construction was completed and it was turned over to the Vir... ---
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Only The Golden Gate. Ran it twice (at night!) while participating in the (then Providian)[Relay](https://www.goldengaterelay.com/) and five times running [Houlihans To Houlihans.](https://secretsanfrancisco.com/across-the-bay-race/) ---
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I forgot the [Puente Nuevo](https://www.discoverronda.com/puente-nuevo.html), an 18th century stone arch bridge in Ronda, Spain. Also the [Aguas Livres](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81guas_Livres_Aqueduct), which is an old Roman aqueduct in Lisbon. I’ve crossed the Yukon River numerous times, but there are no famous bridges. ---
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Knights Ferry Bridge just off of CA 120 in Stanislaus County, the longest covered bridge west of the Mississippi. It’s been closed for a couple of years with no re-opening date yet. [![](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54423357927_c78380112f_c.jpg) ](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54423357927_c78380112f_c.jpg) If [this link](https://photos.app.goo.gl/cLatzEGX5FTVEMPf8) works, you should get a 360 view from inside. (you might have to click on the image to get the 360 view) ---
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Mr. Criver’s Bridge. The Very Narrow Bridge. Key Bridge (you had to cross it to get to Dixie Liquors.) ---
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Too many to count, really. One that stands out is Telford’s Menai bridge between Anglesey and mainland North Wales, for historic reasons. ---
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I think most of mine have already been listed: On various visits to the Bay Area I’ve driven across Golden Gate Bridge, and I’ve walked on it to about the halfway point and then turned back and walked back to San Francisco. I’ve also driven across the (less famous) Bay Bridge – both the old eastern span and the new replacement eastern span, and of course the western span (the more recognizable suspension bridge). In New York I’ve walked across the Brooklyn Bridge, and I’ve ridden the subway across the (less famous) [Manhattan Bridge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Bridge). On a family road trip when I was a kid we passed through West Virginia and stopped at the overlook for the New River Gorge Bridge before driving across it. Looking at it from the overlook was kind of cool. Driving across it was kind of underwhelming, at least from my perspective as a kid; it just felt like a boring freeway bridge. Depending on your definition of famous (It did appear in the 2002 film [XXX](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXX_(2002_film)) starring Vin Diesel) I have driven across the Foresthill Bridge near Auburn, CA. I attempted to walk across it once, but my fear of heights would not allow it. It’s the 4th highest bridge deck in the US, and IIRC at the time it was the 7th highest in the world, but then China went on a big infrastructure building binge and built a bunch of higher bridges that knocked it way down in the world rankings. > **[Foresthill Bridge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foresthill_Bridge)** > > The Foresthill Bridge, also called the Auburn-Foresthill Bridge or the Auburn Bridge, is a road bridge crossing over the North Fork American River in Placer County and the Sierra Nevada foothills, in eastern California. It is the highest bridge by deck height in California, the fourth highest in the United States, and among the seventy highest in the world at 730 feet (220 m) above the river. > Originally constructed to replace a river-level crossing of the American River that would have been fl... ---
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Too many to mention, I have been over most of the bridges over the Thames in London, several of the bridges around Manhatten, all 3 bridges over the Forth, (including the railway bridge which bto7ght the saying “like painting the Forth Bridge” for a task that is never ending. A couple of the more interssting bridges I have crossed are: The Iron Bridge (as the first bridge made of Iron when built it was THE Iron Bridge today it is a symbol of the Industrial Revolution > **[The Iron Bridge](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iron_Bridge)** > > The Iron Bridge is a cast iron arch bridge that crosses the River Severn in Shropshire, England. Opened in 1781, it was the first major bridge in the world to be made of cast iron. Its success inspired the widespread use of cast iron as a structural material, and today the bridge is celebrated as a symbol of the Industrial Revolution. > The geography of the deep Ironbridge Gorge, formed by glacial action during the last ice age, meant that there are industrially useful deposits of coal, iron o... The “Bridge over the Atlantic” I have tavelled over the “Atlantic” on this bridge both on foot and by car > **[Clachan Bridge](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clachan_Bridge)** > > The Clachan Bridge (also known as the Bridge over the Atlantic) is a simple, single-arched, hump-backed, masonry bridge spanning the Clachan Sound, 13 kilometres (8 mi) southwest of Oban in Argyll and Bute, west of Scotland. It links the west coast of the Scottish mainland to the island of Seil. > The bridge was originally designed by John Stevenson of Oban (and not by Thomas Telford as sometimes quoted) and was built between 1792 and 1793 by engineer Robert Mylne. The original design had two a... The Victoria Falls Bridge, Victoria make Niagra look tiny. I also started a rafting trip directly below it in the 1980s > **[Victoria Falls Bridge](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Falls_Bridge)** > > The Victoria Falls Bridge crosses the Zambezi River just below the Victoria Falls and is built over the Second Gorge of the falls. As the river forms the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia, the bridge links the two countries and has border posts on the approaches to both ends, at the towns of Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, and Livingstone, Zambia. > The bridge was the brainchild of Cecil Rhodes, part of his grand and unfulfilled Cape to Cairo railway scheme, even though he never visited the falls an... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-bridges-have-you-been-across/1016448.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-bridges-have-you-been-across/1016448.md?page=3)