Road Bridge
Inside the anchorage of the Brooklyn side of the Brooklyn Bridge is a cavernous complex of eight 50-foot tall spaces. These cathedral-like rooms were walled off and used for storage for many years, until 1983, when an arts organization installed an exhibit there as part of the bridge's centennial....
The Bay system is at its narrowest point at the western end of Carquinez Strait, a six mile long submerged canyon that separates San Pablo Bay from Suisun Bay. The Bay Area's bridges have many superlatives associated with them, and the Carquinez Bridge is no exception. It was called the highest...
A bridge-tunnel structure extending 17.65 miles across Chesapeake Bay, which makes it the longest bridge-tunnel structure in the world, completed in 1964.
Spanning the Delaware River, this 1,644-foot bridge is one of the longest cantilever bridges in the USA.
A number of important and historic water crossings are clustered in the south Bay. The Dumbarton Bridge was the first road bridge to span the Bay, and today it connects the built-out Silicon Valley to the real estate of the south-east Bay. The train bridge south of the Dumbarton Bridge was the...
This small bridge is a relic from the first coast-to-coast highway. It is a historic monument and has a large plaque, however, the site is located within the restricted zone of Dugway Proving Ground.
This steel bridge, carrying cars on U.S. Route 64,650 feet above the Rio Grande River, is the fifth highest bridge in the USA, and is otherwise notable for its dramatic location, 10 miles northwest of Taos, New Mexico. It opened in 1965. The four bridges in the USA higher than this one are the...
This suspension bridge, over the deep Royal Gorge in the Arkansas River, is said to be the highest bridge in the world, at 1,053 feet above the water level, and was constructed in six months in 1929. Today, the bridge is somewhat overwhelmed by the tourism industry surrounding it. Several western...
The Bay Bridge is one of the most impressive bridges in the country, though, like the City of Oakland it serves, it is usually upstaged by it's flashier neighbor, San Francisco's Golden Gate. The bridge's four mile span is composed of two halves. The Oakland side is supported on pilings resting on...
It was ten years between the famous collapse of the Tacoma Narrows bridge and the construction of the new bridge in 1950, and the remains of Galloping Gertie still lie submerged in the water below the current mile long span.