Most Beautiful Bridge

[Voyager]

For some reason I really like the Nippon Clip-on Auckland Harbor Bridge:

[njroadhorse]

My personal favorite is the Main Street Bridge in Jacksonville, FL

[algorerhythms]

I'm somewhat surprised the New River Gorge Bridge hasn't come up yet.

[deathtopumpkins]

Now THAT's a bridge!

[agentsteel53]

The Bay Bridge.  The Golden Gate Bridge's underappreciated cousin.  I think it's just as lovely; it just happens to not have as many optimal vantage points.


large version: http://www.artistjake.com/lj/DSC_3666A.jpg

[Alex]

And that is my new wallpaper!

[akotchi]

I hope to get half as good a shot of that bridge when I go out there in May!  Wow, that is beautiful . . .

[Voyager]

Why I like the Golden Gate Bridge more: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sfstreetlight/

[deathtopumpkins]

Ooh... nice Bay Bridge shot! I think that's pushing the Golden Gate's monopoly on good pictures.

[agentsteel53]

thanks

Bay Bridge is hard to get good photos of because Yerba Buena Island is swarming with all kinds of authorities and prohibitions about where you can't go and how quickly you must cease to exist ... there is a piece of the island that is marked as a Coast Guard station, and I respect their property, but to put up, all around the other parts of the island, all sorts of hideous warning signs about how trespassing is going to cost you three arms, four legs, and a penis ... that's just savage. 

[Voyager]

Yup, only good place they usually let you get photos is from Treasure Island.

Another bridge I like:

[Anonymity Lane]

(I know, old thread, but I figure it's okay to post in seeing as how it's on the first page and all)

I've only ever been on it once (2005), but I'm partial to the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. Its beauty is heightened to me by the fact that it looks like it has so much space to itself, it's otherwise wide open water.

[corco]

The Rainbow Bridge in Idaho- it blends so well with the surrounding setting

(photo credit NSBP)

[Anonymity Lane]

That one is rather cool-looking, I've never seen it until today.

[english si]

The Ballyshannon bypass bridge in Ireland looks good during the day, but better at night

However, Chenonceau is probably my favourite one that I've been across.

[MDOTFanFB]

It would have to be between the Ambassador Bridge between I-75/I-96 in Detroit and ON 3 in Windsor, ON and the Veteran's Glass City Skyway on I-280 in Toledo, OH, though I've only crossed the latter. The former is a suspension bridge built in 1929, the latter a cable-stayed bridge built in 2007.

[SteveG1988]

1926 Ben Franklin Bridge. Beautiful at night and during the day. Impressive due to it being a bridge that was planned to carry a variety of traffic from the start, rail,Streetcar(never used but planned),Pedestrian, and normal cars

[mightyace]

For me it's covered bridges.

I'm sorry I don't have a picture at the moment.

[algorerhythms]

Ponte do Paiva in Recife, Brazil, is a rather beautiful bridge. The picture in the link shows the bridge while the highway leading to it was still under construction. When I was there in December, the highway was still partially under construction (the tollbooth on the approaching highway was completed, but north of the tollbooth the highway was a dirt road).

edit - and I should note that I didn't take that picture, I found it on Google Maps (didn't have my camera with me when we went to Cabo do Santo Augostinho). I did take a bunch of pictures of Boa Viagem, though those aren't as much of roadgeek interest.

[aridawn]

My two bridges I love are: 1. The Park Bridge on the trans-can 1 just east of Golden, BC

http://www.journalofcommerce.com/images/archivesid/24262/100.jpg

2. The Oresund Bridge between Denmark and Sweden

http://www.composedvolcano.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/o1.jpg

[nexus73]

The Golden Gate Bridge is the most iconic bridge on the planet IMO.  It's the Mona Lisa of bridges.

Rick

[Stephane Dumas]

For me it's covered bridges.

I'm sorry I don't have a picture at the moment.

I spotted some videos of covered bridges located in Quebec, like that one in Fort-Coulonge in the Ottawa River valley

The longest covered bridge in Hartland, New Brunswick

[1995hoo]

I've always liked the Clifton Suspension Bridge (hey, that's me in the foreground back in April 2007).

[SteveG1988]

One bridge i always liked the look of, despite its infamous reputation was the 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Yes it had a bad design in terms of deck width, and using solid girders. But at the same time they were just learning the techniques.

It just looks so graceful, the towers are not over the top on the art deco touches, fairly simple bridge.

[papaT10932]

It sounds a little cliche to choose such a famous bridge, but I do consider to George Washington to be the most beautiful. It's so graceful yet powerful. It speaks to American strength and symbolizes an era when this country embraced its power and potential.