The Golden Gate Bridge is a
suspension bridge crossing the Golden Gate, the one-mile-wide (1.6 km)
strait-linking San Francisco bay and the Pacific Ocean. The structure of the
San Francisco, California - San Francisco Peninsula - Marin County, conveying both
US Highway 101 and California State Route 1 over the strait. The bridge is one
of the most widely seen images of San Francisco, California, and the United
States. It has been announced one of the Wonders of the Modern World by the
American Society of Civil Engineers.
The Frommer 's Movement of the
Golden Gate Bridge "Perhaps the most wonderful, surely the most captured,
bridge in the world. At the season of its opening in 1937, it was both the
longest and the tallest suspension bridge on the planet, with a fundamental
range of 4,200 feet (1,280 m) and an all out of height of 746 feet (227 m).
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, CA, USA
