Royal Gorge Bridge

The Royal Gorge Bridge is a wooden-planked suspension footbridge that hangs 956 feet (291 m) above the Arkansas River in central Colorado, making it for decades the highest bridge in the world and still one of the highest in the United States. Built in 1929 purely as a tourist attraction, it spans the dramatic granite chasm of the Royal Gorge, a slot the river has cut more than a thousand feet deep into the rock.

Visitors can walk or drive across its swaying deck of timber planks and look straight down to the railroad and whitewater far below. The surrounding park added a gondola, a zip line, and other attractions, and after a 2013 wildfire swept through and destroyed most of the park's buildings, the bridge itself survived and the park was rebuilt. It remains a classic stop on the way through the Colorado Rockies.

• Colorado
  The highest state, crown of the Rocky Mountains related