Bridges
Name | Height feet | Spans | Completed | State |
---|---|---|---|---|
Royal Gorge Bridge | 1053 | Arkansas River | 1929 | Colorado |
Mike O'Callaghan – Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge | 890 | Colorado River | 2010 | Arizona / Nevada |
New River Gorge Bridge | 876 | New River | 1977 | West Virginia |
Foresthill Bridge | 730 | American River | 1973 | California |
Glade Creek Bridge | 700 | Glade Creek | 1988 | West Virginia |
Glen Canyon Bridge | 700 | Colorado River | 1964 | Arizona |
Rio Grande Gorge Bridge | 660 | Rio Grande | 1965 | New Mexico |
Perrine Bridge | 486 | Snake River | 1974 | Idaho |
Navajo Bridges | 470 | Colorado River | 1929/1995 | Arizona |
Pine Valley Creek Bridge | 450 | Pine Valley Creek | 1974 | California |
Moyie River Bridge | 424 | Moyie River | 1965 | Idaho |
High Steel Bridge | 420 | Skokomish River | 1929 | Washington |
Cold Spring Canyon Bridge | 420 | Cold Spring Canyon | 1964 | California |
Lewiston-Queenston Bridge | 370 | Niagara River | 1962 | New York |
Hoffstadt Creek Bridge | 370 | Hoffstadt Creek | 1994 | Washington |
Thomas Creek Bridge | 345 | Thomas Creek | 1961 | Oregon |
Fred G. Redmon Bridge | 325 | Selah Creek, a Yakima River tributary | 1971 | Washington |
Rex T. Barber Veterans Memorial Bridge | 300 | Crooked River | 2000 | Oregon |
Hurricane Gulch Bridge | 296 | Chulitna River | 1921 | Alaska |
Crooked River High Bridge | 295 | Crooked River | 1926 | Oregon |
Pecos River High Bridge | 273 | Pecos River | 1944 | Texas |
Emlenton Bridge | 270 | Allegheny River | 1968 | Pennsylvania |
South Fork Eel River Bridge | 265 | South Fork Eel River | 2009 | California |
Bixby Creek Bridge | 260 | Bixby Creek | 1932 | California |
Clay's Ferry Bridge | 250 | Kentucky River | 1946 | Kentucky |
George Westinghouse Bridge | 240 | Turtle Creek | 1932 | Pennsylvania |
Jeremiah Morrow Bridge | 239 | Little Miami River | 1965 | Ohio |
Verrazano-Narrows Bridge | 226 | The Narrows | 1964 | New York |
Whirlpool Rapids Bridge | 225 | Niagara River | 1897 | New York |
Peter Guice Memorial Bridge | 225 | Green River | 1972 | North Carolina |
Golden Gate Bridge | 220 | San Francisco Bay | 1937 | California |
San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge | 220 | San Francisco Bay | 1936 | California |
Laurel Creek Gorge Bridge | 220 | Big Laurel Creek | 2002 | North Carolina |
George Washington Bridge | 212 | Hudson River | 1931 | New York/New Jersey |
Valley View Bridge | 212 | Cuyahoga Valley | 1978 | Ohio |
Lewis and Clark Bridge | 210 | Columbia River | 1930 | Oregon/Washington |
Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge | 206 | Narragansett Bay | 1969 | Rhode Island |
Astoria-Megler Bridge | 205 | Columbia River | 1966 | Oregon/Washington |
St. Johns Bridge | 205 | Willamette River | 1931 | Oregon |
Rainbow Bridge | 202 | Niagara River | 1941 | New York |
Hite Crossing Bridge | 200 | Colorado River | 1966 | Utah |
Tacoma Narrows Bridge | 200 | Puget Sound | 1950/2007 | Washington |
San Diego-Coronado Bridge | 200 | San Diego Bay | 1959 | California |
Mackinac Bridge | 199 | Straits of Mackinac | 1957 | Michigan |
Sunshine Skyway | 197 | Tampa Bay | 1987 | Florida |
Commodore Barry Bridge | 192 | Delaware River | 1974 | Pennsylvania / New Jersey |
Hawk Falls Bridge (Pennsylvania Turnpike - Northeast Extension) | 190 | Hawk Falls Trail, Lehigh River branch | 1957 | Pennsylvania |
Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge | 186 | Cooper River | 2005 | South Carolina |
Chesapeake Bay Bridge | 186 | Chesapeake Bay | 1959 | Maryland |
Richmond – San Rafael Bridge | 185 | San Francisco Bay | 1956 | California |
Talmadge Memorial Bridge | 185 | Savannah River | 1990 | Georgia / South Carolina |
Sidney Lanier Bridge | 185 | South Brunswick River | 2003 | Georgia |
Deception Pass Bridge | 180 | Puget Sound | 1935 | Washington |
Fred Hartman Bridge | 178 | Houston Ship Channel | 1995 | Texas |
Rainbow Bridge | 177 | Neches River | 1936 | Texas |
Horace Wilkinson Bridge | 175 | Mississippi River | 1968 | Louisiana |
Fremont Bridge | 175 | Willamette River | 1973 | Oregon |
Dames Point Bridge | 175 | Saint Johns River | 1989 | Florida |
Wilson Creek Bridge | 175 | Wilson Creek, a Roanoke River tributary | 2001 | Virginia |
Delaware Memorial Bridge | 174 | Delaware River | 1951 | Delaware / New Jersey |
Crescent City Connection | 170 | Mississippi River | 1958 / 1988 | Louisiana |
Sunshine Bridge | 170 | Mississippi River | 1964 | Louisiana |
South Norfolk Jordan Bridge | 169 | Elizabeth River | 2012 | Virginia |
Veterans Memorial Bridge | 165 | Mississippi River | 1995 | Louisiana |
Quechee Gorge Bridge | 163 | Ottauquechee River | 1911 | Vermont |
The Freedom Bridge | 163 | U. S. Route 6 and U. S. Route 11 | 1955 | Pennsylvania |
Hi-Line Railroad Bridge | 162 | Sheyenne River | 1908 | North Dakota |
High Bridge | 160 | Mississippi River | 1987 | Minnesota |
Luling Bridge | 158 | Mississippi River | 1983 | Louisiana |
Blue Water Bridge | 155 | St. Clair River | 1938 | Michigan |
Huey P. Long Bridge | 153 | Mississippi River | 1935 | Louisiana |
Ambassador Bridge | 152 | Detroit River | 1929 | Michigan / Ontario |
Mathews Bridge | 152 | Saint Johns River | 1953 | Florida |
Rosendale trestle | 150 | Rondout Creek | 1872 | New York |
Thousand Islands Bridge | 150 | St. Lawrence River | 1937 | New York |
McCullough Bridge | 150 | Coos Bay | 1936 | Oregon |
Varina-Enon Bridge | 150 | James River | 1990 | Virginia |
Paul Bryant Bridge | 150 | Black Warrior River | 2004 | Alabama |
Carquinez Bridge | 148 | Carquinez Strait | 1927 / 1958 / 2003 | California |
Natchez Trace Bridge | 145 | Tennessee State Route 96 | 1993 | Tennessee |
Glenn L. Jackson Memorial Bridge | 144 | Columbia River | 1982 | Oregon / Washington |
Hart Bridge | 141 | Saint Johns River | 1967 | Florida |
Cochrane–Africatown USA Bridge | 140 | Mobile River | 1991 | Alabama |
Corpus Christi Harbor Bridge | 138 | Port of Corpus Christi | 1959 | Texas |
Benicia–Martinez Bridge | 138 | Carquinez Strait | 1962 / 2007 | California |
Cascade Creek Trestle | 137 | Cascade Creek | 1889 | Colorado |
Antioch Bridge | 135 | San Joaquin River | 1978 | California |
Benjamin Franklin Bridge | 135 | Delaware River | 1926 | Pennsylvania / New Jersey |
Bourne Bridge, Sagamore Bridge | 135 | Cape Cod Canal | 1935 | Massachusetts |
Braga Bridge | 135 | Taunton River | 1965 | Massachusetts |
Brooklyn Bridge | 135 | East River | 1883 | New York |
Governor Thomas Johnson Bridge | 135 | Patuxent River | 1978 | Maryland |
Hell Gate Bridge | 135 | East River | 1916 | New York |
Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge | 135 | Narragansett Bay | 1992 | Rhode Island |
Mount Hope Bridge | 135 | Mount Hope Bay | 1929 | Rhode Island |
Penobscot Narrows Bridge and Observatory | 135 | Penobscot River | 2006 | Maine |
San Mateo – Hayward Bridge | 135 | San Francisco Bay | 1967 | California |
All-America Bridge | 134 | Little Cuyahoga River | 1982 | Ohio |
Devil's Slide Bridge | 130 | Shamrock Ranch | 2008 | California |
Gene Hartzell Memorial Bridge | 98 | Lehigh River | 2001 | Pennsylvania |
Canton Viaduct | 70 | Neponset River | 1835 | Massachusetts |
The height needed for bridges over major ship routes is around 220 feet (67 m) so there are many bridges with approximately that height.
Read more about this topic: List Of Bridges In The United States By Height
Famous quotes containing the word bridges:
“... this single span,
Reaching for the world, as our lives do,
As all lives do, reaching that we may give
The best of what we are and hold as true:
Always it is by bridges that we live.”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
“On such a night, when Air has loosed
Its guardian grasp on blood and brain,
Old terrors then of god or ghost
Creep from their caves to life again;”
—Robert Bridges (18441930)
“And Reason kens he herits in
A haunted house. Tenants unknown
Assert their squalid lease of sin
With earlier title than his own.”
—Robert Bridges (18441930)