Golden Gate Bridge, California

The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the internationally most renowned and most photographed bridges. It is the suspension bridge that connects San Francisco city/peninsula to Marin County, California. It has a 6-lane highway, 746 ft high, with the total length of 8,981 ft (2.7 km) and 90 ft wide.

The Golden Gate Bridge had originally the estimated cost of $100 M. The design was made because of Joseph Strauss’s thesis to design an 89 km-long railroad bridge, which was supposedly across the Bering Strait at the time, in the year 1916. He completed inland bridges of about 400 draw bridges though. Later, after some inputs from the consulting project experts, he promised that he could build the bridge for only $17 M. He spent 10 years of asking the support of the Northern California to realize the building of the bridge. Then, it was considered as practically, a suspension bridge was needed. The official name of the bridge was changed into ‘Golden Bridge and Highway District’ in 1923 by the Act of the state legislature. It opened on May 27, 1937.

If you wish to make a trip to this well-known bridge and the Golden Gate National Park, you might as well check the toll rates ($6 for southbound cars, $5 fast track, $3 for carpools at peak hours, for fast track only), how to pay the toll fees, background history of the bridge, other visitor's experience (their photos, merchandise and tours), the sidewalk hour schedules for bicyclists and pedestrians, the directions, transit, parking, weather, and the virtual bridge tour and the photo gallery.