List of bridges in the United States by height
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This is a list of the highest bridges in the United States by height over land or water. Height in this list refers to the distance from the bridge deck to the lowest point on the land, or the water surface, directly below. A bridge's deck height is greater than its clearance below, which is measured from the bottom of the deck structure, with the difference being equal to the thickness of the deck structure at the point with the greatest clearance below. Official figures for a bridge's height are often provided only for the clearance below, so those figures may be used instead of actual deck height measurements. For bridges that span tidal water, the clearance below is measured at the average high water level.
The minimum height for inclusion in this list is 130 ft (40 m), which may be either the deck height or the clearance below depending on available references. Note that the following types of bridges are not included in this list: demolished high bridges; historic high bridges such as those over reservoirs—regardless of current reservoir levels—that were filled after the bridge was complete, unless the dam has since been removed; and vertical-lift bridges, even those with raised span heights greater than this list's minimum height.
The clearance below required under bridges for the largest ships—container ships, ocean liners and cruise ships—is around 220 feet (67 m) so there are often bridges with approximately that height located in coastal cities with bays or inlets, such as New York City's Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.[1]
List of bridges[]
Height | Name | Spans | Completed | State(s) |
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955 ft (291.1 m) | Royal Gorge Bridge | Arkansas River | 1929 | Colorado |
900 ft (274.3 m) | Mike O'Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge | Colorado River | 2010 | Arizona / Nevada |
876 ft (267.0 m) | New River Gorge Bridge | New River | 1977 | West Virginia |
730 ft (222.5 m) | Foresthill Bridge | American River | 1973 | California |
700 ft (213.4 m) | Glen Canyon Dam Bridge | Colorado River | 1959 | Arizona |
Phil G. McDonald Bridge (Glade Creek Bridge) | Glade Creek | 1988 | West Virginia | |
565 ft (172.2 m) | Rio Grande Gorge Bridge | Rio Grande | 1965 | New Mexico |
486 ft (148.1 m) | Perrine Bridge | Snake River | 1976 | Idaho |
470 ft (143.3 m) | Navajo Bridge (dual spans; the 1929 span is 467 ft high) | Colorado River | 1929 / 1995 | Arizona |
464 ft (141.4 m) | Moyie River Canyon Bridge | Moyie River | 1965 | Idaho |
450 ft (137.2 m) | Pine Valley Creek Bridge | Pine Valley Creek | 1974 | California |
400 ft (121.9 m) | Cold Spring Canyon Arch Bridge | Cold Spring Canyon | 1964 | California |
388 ft (118.3 m) | (dual spans)[2][3][4][note 1] | Burro Creek | 1966 / 2005 | Arizona |
375 ft (114.3 m) | High Steel Bridge | Skokomish River | 1929 | Washington |
370 ft (112.8 m) | [5][6] | Hoffstadt Creek | 1994 | Washington |
Lewiston–Queenston Bridge | Niagara River | 1962 | New York / Ontario (Canada) | |
350 ft (106.7 m) | Hansen Bridge | Snake River | 1966 | Idaho |
347 ft (105.8 m) | Vance Creek Bridge | Vance Creek | 1929 | Washington |
345 ft (105.2 m) | Thomas Creek Bridge | Thomas Creek | 1961 | Oregon |
325 ft (99.1 m) | Fred G. Redmon Bridge | Selah Creek | 1971 | Washington |
320 ft (97.5 m) | Crooked River Railroad Bridge | Crooked River | 1911 | Oregon |
300 ft (91.4 m) | Rex T. Barber Veterans Memorial Bridge | Crooked River | 2000 | Oregon |
296 ft (90.2 m) | Hurricane Gulch Bridge | Hurricane Gulch | 1921 | Alaska |
295 ft (89.9 m) | Crooked River High Bridge | Crooked River | 1926 | Oregon |
Galena Creek Bridge | Galena Creek | 2012 | Nevada | |
285 ft (86.9 m) | Sunlight Creek Bridge[7] | Sunlight Creek | 1985 | Wyoming |
283 ft (86.3 m) | Young's High Bridge | Kentucky River | 1889 | Kentucky |
275 ft (83.8 m) | High Bridge of Kentucky | Kentucky River | 1877 | Kentucky |
Pecos River High Bridge | Pecos River | 1944 | Texas | |
273 ft (83.2 m) | [8] | Pecos River | 1957 | Texas |
270 ft (82.3 m) | Emlenton Bridge | Allegheny River | 1968 | Pennsylvania |
265 ft (80.8 m) | U.S. Route 460 Connector Bridge[9][10] | Grassy Creek | 2016 | Kentucky / Virginia |
260 ft (79.2 m) | Bixby Creek Bridge | Bixby Creek | 1932 | California |
255 ft (77.7 m) | Confusion Hill Bridges (south span) | South Fork Eel River | 2009 | California |
250 ft (76.2 m) | Fairfax Bridge | Carbon River | 1921 | Washington |
Mingo Creek Viaduct | Mingo Creek | 2002 | Pennsylvania | |
245 ft (74.7 m) | Clays Ferry Bridge[11] | Kentucky River | 1946 / 1963 / 1998 | Kentucky |
240 ft (73.2 m) | Genesee Arch Bridge | Genesee River | 2017 | New York |
George Westinghouse Bridge | Turtle Creek | 1932 | Pennsylvania | |
239 ft (72.8 m) | Jeremiah Morrow Bridge | Little Miami River | 2016 | Ohio |
238 ft (72.5 m) | [12] | Kuskulana River | 1910 | Alaska |
228 ft (69.5 m) | Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge | The Narrows | 1964 | New York |
225 ft (68.6 m) | Peter Guice Memorial Bridge | Green River | 1972 | North Carolina |
Whirlpool Rapids Bridge | Niagara River | 1897 | New York / Ontario (Canada) | |
220 ft (67.1 m) | Golden Gate Bridge | Golden Gate | 1937 | California |
Laurel Creek Gorge Bridge | Laurel Creek | 2002 | North Carolina | |
San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge (western span) | San Francisco Bay | 1936 | California | |
212 ft (64.6 m) | George Washington Bridge | Hudson River | 1931 | New York / New Jersey |
Valley View Bridge | Cuyahoga Valley | 1977 | Ohio | |
Walkway over the Hudson | Hudson River | 1889 | New York | |
210 ft (64.0 m) | Lewis and Clark Bridge | Columbia River | 1930 | Oregon / Washington |
206 ft (62.8 m) | Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge | Narragansett Bay | 1969 | Rhode Island |
205 ft (62.5 m) | Long Beach International Gateway Bridge | Back Channel, Port of Long Beach | 2020 | California |
St. Johns Bridge | Willamette River | 1931 | Oregon | |
204 ft (62.2 m) | Thomas Rukavina Memorial Bridge[13][14][15] | Rouchleau Mine Pit | 2017 | Minnesota |
203 ft (61.9 m) | Leo Frigo Memorial Bridge | Fox River | 1981 | Wisconsin |
202 ft (61.6 m) | Rainbow Bridge | Niagara River | 1941 | New York / Ontario (Canada) |
200 ft (61.0 m) | Hite Crossing Bridge | Colorado River | 1966 | Utah |
Mackinac Bridge | Straits of Mackinac | 1957 | Michigan | |
Mon–Fayette Expressway Bridge | Monongahela River | 2013 | Pennsylvania | |
Red Cliff Bridge | Eagle River | 1940 | Colorado | |
San Diego–Coronado Bridge | San Diego Bay | 1969 | California | |
Tacoma Narrows Bridge (dual spans) | Tacoma Narrows | 1950 / 2007 | Washington | |
196 ft (59.7 m) | Astoria–Megler Bridge | Columbia River | 1966 | Oregon / Washington |
192 ft (58.5 m) | Commodore Barry Bridge | Delaware River | 1974 | Pennsylvania / New Jersey |
191 ft (58.2 m) | San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge (eastern span) | San Francisco Bay | 2013 | California |
190 ft (57.9 m) | [16] | Mud Run | 1957 | Pennsylvania |
186 ft (56.7 m) | Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge | Cooper River | 2005 | South Carolina |
Chesapeake Bay Bridge (dual spans) | Chesapeake Bay | 1952 / 1973 | Maryland | |
Goat Canyon Trestle | Goat Canyon | 1933 | California | |
185 ft (56.4 m) | Francis Scott Key Bridge | Patapsco River | 1977 | Maryland |
Richmond–San Rafael Bridge | San Francisco Bay | 1956 | California | |
Sidney Lanier Bridge | Brunswick River | 2003 | Georgia | |
Talmadge Memorial Bridge | Savannah River | 1991 | Georgia | |
Vincent Thomas Bridge | Los Angeles Harbor | 1963 | California | |
184 ft (56.1 m) | Soo Line High Bridge | St. Croix River | 1911 | Minnesota / Wisconsin |
181 ft (55.2 m) | Sunshine Skyway Bridge | Tampa Bay | 1987 | Florida |
180 ft (54.9 m) | Deception Pass Bridge | Puget Sound | 1935 | Washington |
178 ft (54.3 m) | Fred Hartman Bridge | Houston Ship Channel | 1995 | Texas |
177 ft (53.9 m) | Rainbow Bridge | Neches River | 1936 | Texas |
175 ft (53.3 m) | Dames Point Bridge | St. Johns River | 1989 | Florida |
Fremont Bridge | Willamette River | 1973 | Oregon | |
Horace Wilkinson Bridge | Mississippi River | 1968 | Louisiana | |
Sam Houston Ship Channel Bridge | Houston Ship Channel | 1982 | Texas | |
Wilson Creek Bridge | Wilson Creek | 2001 | Virginia | |
174 ft (53.0 m) | Delaware Memorial Bridge (dual spans) | Delaware River | 1951 / 1968 | Delaware / New Jersey |
172 ft (52.4 m) | Clio Trestle | Willow Creek | 1909 | California |
170 ft (51.8 m) | Beaver River Bridge | Beaver River | 1952 | Pennsylvania |
Crescent City Connection (dual spans) | Mississippi River | 1958 / 1988 | Louisiana | |
[17] | East Street Valley | 1930 | Pennsylvania | |
Sunshine Bridge | Mississippi River | 1964 | Louisiana | |
Wissahickon Memorial Bridge | Wissahickon Creek | 1932 | Pennsylvania | |
166 ft (50.6 m) | Massachusetts Turnpike's [18] | Westfield River | 1957 | Massachusetts |
165 ft (50.3 m) | Veterans Memorial Bridge | Mississippi River | 1995 | Louisiana |
163 ft (49.7 m) | Quechee Gorge Bridge | Ottauquechee River | 1911 | Vermont |
162 ft (49.4 m) | Hi-Line Railroad Bridge | Sheyenne River | 1908 | North Dakota |
160 ft (48.8 m) | High Bridge | Mississippi River | 1987 | Minnesota |
158 ft (48.2 m) | Hale Boggs Memorial Bridge | Mississippi River | 1983 | Louisiana |
157 ft (47.9 m) | Tulip Trestle | 1906 | Indiana | |
155 ft (47.2 m) | Bear Mountain Bridge | Hudson River | 1924 | New York |
Blue Water Bridge (dual spans) | St. Clair River | 1938 / 1997 | Michigan / Ontario (Canada) | |
Gerald Desmond Bridge | Back Channel, Port of Long Beach | 1968 | California | |
153 ft (46.6 m) | Huey P. Long Bridge (Jefferson Parish) | Mississippi River | 1935 | Louisiana |
Walt Whitman Bridge | Delaware River | 1957 | Pennsylvania / New Jersey | |
152 ft (46.3 m) | Ambassador Bridge | Detroit River | 1929 | Michigan / Ontario (Canada) |
Kingston–Rhinecliff Bridge | Hudson River | 1957 | New York | |
Mathews Bridge | St. Johns River | 1953 | Florida | |
151 ft (46.0 m) | Bayonne Bridge | Kill Van Kull | 1931 | New York / New Jersey |
150 ft (45.7 m) | Conde McCullough Memorial Bridge | Coos Bay | 1936 | Oregon |
(Clarks Summit Bridge)[19][20][21] | U.S. Routes 6 and 11 | 1955 | Pennsylvania | |
Paul Bryant Bridge | Black Warrior River | 2004 | Alabama | |
Rosendale Trestle | Rondout Creek | 1872 | New York | |
Thousand Islands Bridge | Saint Lawrence River | 1937 | New York / Ontario (Canada) | |
Varina-Enon Bridge | James River | 1990 | Virginia | |
148 ft (45.1 m) | Carquinez Bridge (dual spans) | Carquinez Strait | 1958 / 2003 | California |
147 ft (44.8 m) | Cut River Bridge | Cut River | 1947 | Michigan |
Walnut Lane Bridge | Wissahickon Creek | 1908 | Pennsylvania | |
145 ft (44.2 m) | Jordan Bridge | Southern Branch Elizabeth River | 2012 | Virginia |
Natchez Trace Parkway Bridge | State Route 96 | 1994 | Tennessee | |
Rip Van Winkle Bridge | Hudson River | 1935 | New York | |
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge[22] | James River | 2002 | Virginia | |
144 ft (43.9 m) | Glenn L. Jackson Memorial Bridge | Columbia River | 1982 | Oregon / Washington |
143 ft (43.6 m) | Henry Hudson Bridge | Spuyten Duyvil Creek | 1936 | New York |
Outerbridge Crossing | Arthur Kill | 1928 | New York / New Jersey | |
Triborough Bridge (Robert F. Kennedy Bridge) | East River | 1936 | New York | |
142 ft (43.3 m) | Throgs Neck Bridge | East River | 1961 | New York |
141 ft (43.0 m) | Hart Bridge | St. Johns River | 1967 | Florida |
140 ft (42.7 m) | Cochrane–Africatown USA Bridge | Mobile River | 1991 | Alabama |
Confusion Hill Bridges (north span) | South Fork Eel River | 2008 | California | |
Goethals Bridge | Arthur Kill | 1928 | New York / New Jersey | |
Governor Thomas Johnson Bridge | Patuxent River | 1977 | Maryland | |
High Bridge (Aqueduct Bridge) | Harlem River | 1848 / 1927 | New York | |
Israel LaFleur Bridge | Calcasieu River | 1962 | Louisiana | |
139 ft (42.4 m) | New Tappan Zee Bridge (Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge) | Hudson River | 2017 | New York |
138 ft (42.1 m) | Albertus L. Meyers Bridge | Little Lehigh Creek | 1913 | Pennsylvania |
Benicia–Martinez Bridge (dual spans) | Carquinez Strait | 1962 / 2007 | California | |
Corpus Christi Harbor Bridge | Port of Corpus Christi | 1959 | Texas | |
Tappan Zee Bridge | Hudson River | 1955 | New York | |
137 ft (41.8 m) | [23][24] | Cascade Creek | 1889 | Colorado |
U.S. Route 20 [25][26] | Iowa River | 2003 | Iowa | |
135 ft (41.1 m) | Antioch Bridge | San Joaquin River | 1978 | California |
Benjamin Franklin Bridge | Delaware River | 1926 | Pennsylvania / New Jersey | |
Betsy Ross Bridge | Delaware River | 1976 | Pennsylvania / New Jersey | |
Bourne Bridge, Sagamore Bridge | Cape Cod Canal | 1935 | Massachusetts | |
Bronx–Whitestone Bridge | East River | 1939 | New York | |
Brooklyn Bridge | East River | 1883 | New York | |
Calcasieu River Bridge | Calcasieu River | 1952 | Louisiana | |
Castleton Bridge | Hudson River | 1959 | New York | |
Charles M. Braga Jr. Memorial Bridge | Taunton River | 1965 | Massachusetts | |
Delaware River–Turnpike Toll Bridge | Delaware River | 1956 | Pennsylvania / New Jersey | |
Girard Point Bridge[27] | Schuylkill River | 1985 | Pennsylvania | |
Gold Star Memorial Bridge (dual spans) | Thames River | 1943 / 1973 | Connecticut | |
Governor Harry W. Nice Memorial Bridge | Potomac River | 1940 | Maryland / Virginia | |
Hell Gate Bridge | East River | 1916 | New York | |
Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge | Narragansett Bay | 1992 | Rhode Island | |
Manhattan Bridge | East River | 1909 | New York | |
Mid-Hudson Bridge | Hudson River | 1930 | New York | |
Mount Hope Bridge | Mount Hope Bay | 1929 | Rhode Island | |
Newburgh–Beacon Bridge (dual spans) | Hudson River | 1963 / 1980 | New York | |
Penobscot Narrows Bridge and Observatory | Penobscot River | 2006 | Maine | |
San Mateo–Hayward Bridge | San Francisco Bay | 1967 | California | |
Sidney Sherman Bridge | Houston Ship Channel | 1973 | Texas | |
Tobin Bridge | Mystic River | 1950 | Massachusetts | |
Williamsburg Bridge | East River | 1903 | New York | |
134 ft (40.8 m) | All-America Bridge | Little Cuyahoga River | 1982 | Ohio |
Washington Bridge | Harlem River | 1888 | New York | |
132 ft (40.2 m) | [28][29] | Green River | 1927 | North Carolina |
130 ft (39.6 m) | Queensboro Bridge (59th Street Bridge) | East River | 1909 | New York |
Gallery[]
The ten highest bridges in the United States:
Royal Gorge Bridge—955'
New River Gorge Bridge—876'
Foresthill Bridge—730'
Perrine Bridge—486'
Navajo Bridge—470'
See also[]
- Transport portal
- Engineering portal
- United States portal
- List of highest bridges
- List of longest bridges
- List of tallest bridges
Notes[]
- ^ The americanbridge.net reference for Burro Creek Bridge provides a vertical clearance figure of 370 ft (113 m) which is 18 ft (5 m) lower than the deck heights for the two spans of this bridge as provided by highestbridges.com, the difference being due to the deck truss height.
References[]
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- ^ Sakowski, Eric (December 5, 2010). "Burro Creek 2005 Bridge". highestbridges.com. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved December 20, 2016.
- ^ "Burro Creek Bridge, Completion Date: March 01, 1966". americanbridge.net. n.d. Archived from the original on December 20, 2016. Retrieved December 20, 2016.
- ^ Janberg, Nicolas (February 5, 2016). "Hoffstadt Creek Bridge". structurae.net. Archived from the original on October 25, 2016. Retrieved October 25, 2016.
- ^ Sakowski, Eric (December 10, 2009). "Hoffstadt Creek Bridge". highestbridges.com. Archived from the original on October 25, 2016. Retrieved October 25, 2016.
- ^ Sakowski, Eric (March 13, 2012). "United States Bridges 90 to 100 meters". highestbridges.com. Archived from the original on January 16, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
- ^ "Pecos River Highway Bridge".
- ^ Robinson Gibson, Allie (February 15, 2014). "460 Connector, CFX construction projects moving forward in SWVa". Bristol Herald-Courier. Bristol, VA. Retrieved June 15, 2017.
- ^ "Corridor Q: Route 460 Connector - Phase I". Virginia Department of Transportation. February 24, 2016. Archived from the original on April 18, 2017. Retrieved June 15, 2017.
- ^ "Evaluation of Condition-Responsive Work Zone Traffic Controls at the I-75 Clays Ferry Bridge". uknowledge.uky.edu. University of Kentucky. June 1998. p. 1. Archived from the original on February 25, 2018. Retrieved February 25, 2018.
- ^ "Wrangell-St Elias National Park & Preserve: McCarthy Road Guide". nps.gov. National Park Service. n.d. Archived from the original on October 9, 2016. Retrieved October 26, 2016.
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- ^ "Benesch Transportation Projects [height ref: see 5th photo by scrolling down photo gallery, click on Clarks Summit Bridge photo, caption states height as 150 feet]". benesch.com. Alfred Benesch & Company. n.d. Archived from the original on October 27, 2016. Retrieved October 28, 2016.
- ^ "Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge Design". modjeski.com. Modjeski and Masters. n.d. Archived from the original on November 11, 2019. Retrieved November 11, 2019.
- ^ Turner, Jack (n.d.). "Rocky Mountain Exploration Part 3: Cumbres & Toltec Railroad". trainweb.org. TrainWeb LLC. Archived from the original on June 26, 2016. Retrieved October 26, 2016.
- ^ "Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad: Scenery Departing Chama, New Mexico". cumbrestoltec.com. Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad. n.d. Archived from the original on March 29, 2016. Retrieved October 26, 2016.
- ^ "The US 20 bridge over the Iowa River is a major transportation improvement and a distinctive feat of modern engineering". iowadot.gov. Iowa Department of Transportation. 2003. Archived from the original on May 23, 2009. Retrieved May 9, 2017.
- ^ "Project overview: The bridge". iowadot.gov. Iowa Department of Transportation. 2003. Archived from the original on May 22, 2009. Retrieved May 9, 2017.
- ^ Janberg, Nicolas (February 5, 2016). "Girard Point Bridge". structurae.net. Archived from the original on December 28, 2016. Retrieved February 5, 2016.
- ^ "Henderson County Bridge 120 (High or Green River Bridge)". ncdot.gov. North Carolina Department of Transportation. July 11, 2018. Retrieved November 7, 2018.
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External links[]
- American records
- Lists of bridges in the United States