The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate strait, the mile-wide, 3-mile-prolonged channel amongst San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. The construction backlinks the U.S. city of San Francisco, on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula, to Marin County, bridging each U.S. Route 101 and California State Route one across the strait. The bridge is one particular of the most internationally recognized symbols of San Francisco, California, and the United States. It has been declared one of the Wonders of the Contemporary Globe by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

The Frommers travel guide considers the Golden Gate Bridge &ldquopossibly the most stunning, surely the most photographed, bridge in the planet&rdquo. It opened in 1937 and had, until 1964, the longest suspension bridge major span in the world, at four,200 feet (one,300 m).

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