Note: Completion year and longest suspended span length may not be known for all bridges listed below.
Also, span lengths are sometimes estimated based on satellite imagery.
Year Completed |
Bridge |
Location |
Crossing - Feature |
Coordinates |
Longest Suspended Span (meters) |
Images |
Year Completed |
Bridge |
Location |
Crossing - Feature |
Coordinates |
Longest Suspended Span (meters) |
Images |
1855 | Niagara Suspension | Niagara Falls, New York, USA and Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada | Niagara River | | 250.33 | Images |
1864 | Clifton | Bristol, England, United Kingdom | River Avon | 51.45496 N 2.62781 W | 213.97 | Images |
1883 | Brooklyn (Great East River) | New York and Brooklyn, New York, USA | East River | 40.706 N 73.99667 W | 486.31 | Images |
1903 | Elisabeth (Elizabeth, Erzsébet) | Budapest, Hungary | Danube River | | 289.86 | Images |
1929 | Royal Gorge | Canon City, Colorado, USA | Arkansas River | 38.46129 N 105.32541 W | 268.22 | Images |
1931 | George Washington (GWB) | New York, New York and Fort Lee, New Jersey, USA | Hudson River | 40.85333 N 73.955 W | 1,066.8 | Images |
1937 | Golden Gate | San Francisco and Marin County, California, USA | San Francisco Bay | 37.82 N 122.47667 W | 1,280.16 | Images |
1939 | Lions Gate (First Narrows) | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | Vancouver Harbor - Burrard Inlet | 49.31533 N 123.13846 W | 472.44 | Images |
1940 | Tacoma Narrows (Galloping Gertie) | Tacoma and Gig Harbor, Washington, USA | Puget Sound | 47.267015 N 122.548462 W | 853.44 | Images |
1957 | Mackinac (Mighty Mac) | St. Ignace and Mackinaw City, Michigan, USA | Straits of Mackinac | 45.820533 N 84.727667 W | 1,158.24 | Images |
1966 | 25 de Abril (Tagus, Salazar, April 25th) | Lisbon, Portugal | Tagus River | 38.6968 N 9.179 W | 1,012.85 | Images |
1973 | Bosporus (Bogaziçi, 15 July Martyrs, First, Bosphorus) | Istanbul, Türkiye | Bosporus Strait | 41.046655 N 29.033788 E | 1,073.81 | |