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Bridges you've walked across

Started by kurumi, June 03, 2010, 12:55:51 PM

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rte66man

Quote from: Max Rockatansky on January 12, 2020, 03:51:12 PM
I recently walked over the Wawona Covered Bridge while hiking out in Yosemite. 

Shoot, I've been across that numerous times.  Didn't know you could count it.
When you come to a fork in the road... TAKE IT.

                                                               -Yogi Berra


rte66man

Quote from: cl94 on March 28, 2020, 05:04:49 PM
I can add the Forth Road Bridge, Humber Bridge (part), and George Washington Bridge to the list of major bridges I have crossed on foot.

New Forth or old Forth (or Queensbury RR for that matter)?
When you come to a fork in the road... TAKE IT.

                                                               -Yogi Berra

rte66man

Lived in London for nearly 7 years so I've walked across all of the major Thames River bridges west from Tower Bridge to Battersea.  Since that was many years ago, that doesn't include the pedestrian bridge the Death Eaters destroyed in Half-Blood Prince  :bigass: :bigass:
When you come to a fork in the road... TAKE IT.

                                                               -Yogi Berra

bulldog1979

Last fall, I walked across Harvard Bridgetma from Cambridge to Boston. From there, we continued southward across the Mass Pike before circling back to hit the T.

wanderer2575

I posted this in "Michigan Notes" on on the Midwest board a couple days ago, but will repeat here:

The 2020 Labor Day Mackinac Bridge Walk has been cancelled due to the pandemic.  It's partly about concerns with maintaining social distancing, and partly that bridge toll revenues are obviously in significant decline and the funding isn't available to cover the $300,000 in expenses.

https://www.michigan.gov/documents/mdot/Mackinac_Bridge_annual_walk_2020_suspended_May_2020_690524_7.pdf

Max Rockatansky

Walked across the bridge at Stevenson Creek Falls on Million Dollar Road yesterday:

0 by Max Rockatansky, on Flickr

Max Rockatansky

A new one for me today: the 1958 Wishon Dam spillway bridge.  I also hiked across the 1938 Dinkey Creek Bridge again earlier in the day.  The latter is notable since it's likely the only wooden truss bridge ever built in California. 

Buck87

I added a new one this past weekend, the Smithfield Street Bridge over the Monongahela in Pittsburgh

pderocco

I don't keep track of these things, but I do recall walking this Bridge to Nowhere:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_to_Nowhere_%28San_Gabriel_Mountains%29


roadman65

Bear Mountain Bridge between Highlands, NY and Cordtland, NY.
Every day is a winding road, you just got to get used to it.

Sheryl Crowe

pderocco

I can think of a bunch more, but nothing huge. First, three interesting footbridges: the old Navajo Bridge across the Colorado next to the new bridge carrying US-89A, the Sundial Bridge in Redding CA,
and the bouncy Capilano Suspension Bridge in North Vancouver BC. I've also walked quite a few modest but somewhat historic bridges in the Boston area, mostly over the Charles River, including the old and new Washington St (Charlestown) Bridges, the original and refurbed Longfellow Bridge, the Harvard Bridge with its smoot measurements, and the Boston University Bridge, where you could theoretically have a plane flying over a car driving over a train traveling over a boat.

I've also skated over a lot of urban bridges, including the Interstate (I-5) and I-205 Bridges over the Columbia River. The latter was quite a chore.

oscar

#186
Tower Bridge (unsigned CA 275) between Sacramento and West Sacramento, in summer 1979 when I lived in downtown Sacramento, and walked across the river to a barbershop. Also the historic Million Dollar Bridge east of Cordova AK, plus the Roebling Bridge mentioned above.

Quote from: pderocco on February 16, 2026, 02:53:37 AMI can think of a bunch more, but nothing huge. First, three interesting footbridges: the old Navajo Bridge across the Colorado next to the new bridge carrying US-89A, the Sundial Bridge in Redding CA, and the bouncy Capilano Suspension Bridge in North Vancouver BC.

I walked the Capilano and Lynn Canyon pedestrian suspension bridges in North Vancouver, in part to test my college psychology professor's theory that such bridges induce romantic feelings. The Lynn Canyon bridge did the trick, though alas the attractive woman also on the bridge was busy leading a tour group, so I couldn't follow though. The Capilano bridge induced only nausea.
my Hot Springs and Highways pages, with links to my roads sites:
http://www.alaskaroads.com/home.html

Max Rockatansky

I got lucky on my return crossing of the Capilano Suspension Bridge.  The path across was clear and was to cross in seconds given a crowd wasn't there to make it sway.  The contrast in how people weight the bridge down and make it sway around is quite the contrast. 

The Hanapepe Swinging Bridge on Kauai was in way worse shape than the Capilano span.  That actually has foot planks loose in the center of the span.

kphoger

Quote from: oscar on February 26, 2026, 08:38:12 PMI walked the Capilano and Lynn Canyon pedestrian suspension bridges in North Vancouver, in past to test my college psychology professor's theory that such bridges induce romantic feelings.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on February 26, 2026, 08:44:15 PMI got lucky on my return crossing of the Capilano Suspension Bridge.

tmi

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