What famous bridges have you been across?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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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.

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.

Both times wasn’t just driving over but stopping to hit the visitors center, take some photos, walk out onto the pedestrian portion, etc.

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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:

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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. Most recently famous for a Reese Witherspoon movie.

One of the most scenic bridges I’ve been across is the original one 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:

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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.

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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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Since you’ve sailed under the London Bridge, hopefully you used good discretion (not to mention good aim) when pissing off of it :wink:

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Bixby Creek Bridge, 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:

That one time was enough; road surface was in terrible condition.

A few times:

Several times:

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Only The Golden Gate.
Ran it twice (at night!) while participating in the (then Providian)Relay and five times running Houlihans To Houlihans.

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I forgot the Puente Nuevo, an 18th century stone arch bridge in Ronda, Spain. Also the Aguas Livres, 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.

If this link 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.

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 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.

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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 “Bridge over the Atlantic” I have tavelled over the “Atlantic” on this bridge both on foot and by car

The Victoria Falls Bridge, Victoria make Niagra look tiny. I also started a rafting trip directly below it in the 1980s