Golden Gate Bridge

The Golden Gate Bridge is the famous orange suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the narrow strait where San Francisco Bay meets the Pacific Ocean. Opened in 1937, its main span of 4,200 feet (1,280 m) made it the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time, and its Art Deco towers rising 746 feet through the fog became the defining symbol of San Francisco and one of the most recognized structures on Earth.

Painted a warm "International Orange" so it stands out in the bay's frequent fog, it was an audacious feat of Depression-era engineering, built across a deep, cold, current-swept channel many had thought impossible to bridge. Today it carries U.S. Route 101 and tens of millions of vehicles a year, along with crowds of pedestrians and cyclists drawn to walk beneath its soaring cables with the city, the bay, and the open ocean spread out around them.

• San Francisco Bay
  The great natural harbor of Northern California related