Since this has morphed into a lets-name-a-bunch-of-bridges thread, I must mention another that I have walked across:
I’m going to go with The 59th Street Bridge (Feelin’ Groovy)
Bripsters?
Someone has probably already pointed this out, but the San Francisco [-Oakland] Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge are two different bridges. Nobody living in the area would ever confuse the two, though visitors often do.
Well, the only reason “What’s the most famous!” threads are at ALL interesting is that you can learn cool stuff from other people who know about other cool stuff than you do. Otherwise, THIS thread would have about 14 posts of blather over whether the Golden Gate or the Tower “was more famous.”
Did you know the Colorado Street Bridge is called the “Pasadena Suicide Bridge”? And that it has ghosts?
I tossed up between Golden Gate bridge and Tower bridge. I think I’ll go for Tower bridge as I have fridge magnets with it on but none with the GGB.
Actually I hate Pittsburgh as much as the average Clevelander. Clevelandier? Clevelandtonian? Something like that. Lets just say my second favorite football team is whoever beats the Steelers last.
For bragging rights I would offer the Barre/Market Street Bridge across from beautiful downtown Edwardsville PA.
Well, actually the Edwardsville/Kingston border. And Edwardsville doesn’t really have what most people would consider a downtown. But still ----------- 
As a Londoner, until recently I would have said Tower Bridge every time.
But a few weeks ago I was in San Francisco for the first time and just fell in love with the Golden Gate bridge. We rode under it on a bay tour (saw a humpback whale, yes really! Star Trek IV!), drove across it, and on our free day I made my partner walk across it with me.
And walking back to our hotel one night we saw the Bay Bridge all lit up and that was beautiful too.
I don’t get this, I think Brooklyn and then London not Golden. Why is the Golden Gate Bridge so noteworthy?
I voted Tower and the only other one that crossed my mind was Golden Gate. It wouldn’t occur to me that someone would vote otherwise. Now, I don’t know why the GGB is so noteworthy, I just thought of it because it’s famous, but then again I can say the same for Brooklyn. Tower Bridge OTOH is distinctive.
I voted “other” as the London Bridge is the first name that came to mind and it’s not on your list.
The Brooklyn Bridge was the first of its size and the depth of the Caissons. It is very distinctive looking with its Gothic Cathedral look. It made 2 large cities into 1 effectively on top of that. Brooklyn was a separate large city before The Bridge and a few years later became part of a now much greater NYC. The Brooklyn Bridge opened 1883 and the cities merged in January 1, 1898.
I assume I am missing something about the Golden Gate Bridge but it looks like most other suspension bridges to me outside of color.
I think it’s partly the setting, and partly the proportions - length v height etc, and the length between the towers, it just looks so slender and graceful.
Brooklyn Bridge is handsomely Germanic; however I think Bifröst Bridge is rather more memorable.
Ditto. Growing up, everyone knew that song. The first verse, anyway.
Worthless family trivia: my little sister had one of those hand-cranked music boxes that played “London Bridge Is Falling Down” when she was at an age where she was just as likely to crank it backward as forward. So everyone in my family knows what “London Bridge” sounds like, played backward.
We used to joke that if we ever needed to surreptitiously signal our presence to one another, whistling “London Bridge” backward would be perfect - we’d recognize it, and who else would be whistling that tune?
I didn’t expect such a spirited discussion about bridges. Love it!
I’m a little surprised that the Golden Gate is polling so far ahead of Brooklyn, which I thought would give GGB a run for its money. I’ve had the pleasure to walk across both of them, each very cool in its own way.
I drove over the Ponchartrain earlier this year, which I quite enjoyed. And I recall taking the Chesapeake Bay Bridge many years ago. The interesting thing about that bridge is that it dips under the water into a tunnel at two points along the way. It’s a rather disconcerting view for a moment!
The Bay Bridge is actually two bridges connected by a tunnel through an island. The Eastern span was replaced about 4 years ago, making it not only more structurally sound but also much more aesthetically pleasing. The Golden State Warriors now use that span as their logo, which ups its recognition factor a bit, but it’s still nowhere near as famous as the Golden Gate.
In addition to the Lorain-Carnegie Bridge with its magnificent Guardians, Cleveland also has its own Bridge to Nowhere, the Superior Viaduct bridge.
Though probably the most famous Bridge to Nowhere in the world is the Pont D’Avignon in France.
Speaking of beautiful views of these two bridges, check out these two blog pages. Spectacular aerial views of the San Francisco Bay Area, including both bridges. Both pages also include links to YouTube videos from which these still photos were taken.
(No, that isn’t me in those photos. I wish it was me!)
(ETA: P.S.: You can click on most of those pics to embiggen.)
As long as this thread is now segueing into discussion of lesser-known but still interesting bridges, let’s not forget the Sundial Bridge in Redding, Ca. – A footbridge over the northern reaches of the Sacramento River.
And yes, the suspension tower, designed to look like a sundial, is in fact a real functional sundial. Calibrated for June 21 (summer solstice), it casts a shadow on a little grassy area at the end of the bridge. The grassy area is surrounded by a low brick wall with the hour markings set into it.
Not the most famous (that’s obviously the GGB), but got to be one of the most interesting to drive – the Eshima Ohashi Bridge.
