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 |
1801 | Jacob's Creek (Iron Bridge, Chain Bridge) | Iron Bridge, Mount Pleasant vicinity, Pennsylvania, USA | Jacob's Creek | 40.112598 N 79.553186 W | 21.34 | |
1816 | Spider | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA | Schuylkill River | | 120.02 | |
1822 | (footbridge) | Annonay, Ardèche, France | Cance River | | 18 | |
1823 | Saint Antoine | Geneva, Switzerland | | | 40 | |
1825 | Tain-Tournon | Tournon-sur-Rhône, Ardèche and Tain, Drôme, France | Rhône River | | 85 | |
1834 | Zaehringen (Grand Pont Suspendu) | Fribourg, Switzerland | Sarine River | | 273.1 | Images |
1842 | Fairmount (Callowhill Street, Upper Ferry) | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA | Schuylkill River | | 104.24 | Images |
1848 | Delaware Aqueduct (Roebling Aqueduct) | Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania and Minisink Ford, New York, USA | Delaware River | 41.48262 N 74.98461 W | 43.28 | Images |
1849 | Wheeling (Wheeling and Belmont) | Wheeling, West Virginia, USA | Ohio River | 40.07167 N 80.72667 W | 307.85 | Images |
1867 | John A. Roebling (Cincinnati, Cincinnati and Covington) | Cincinnati, Ohio and Covington, Kentucky, USA | Ohio River | 39.09167 N 84.50833 W | 322.17 | Images |
1868 | Wire | New Portland, Maine, USA | Carrabasset River | 44.890783 N 70.0925 W | 60.47 | Images |
1883 | Brooklyn (Great East River) | New York and Brooklyn, New York, USA | East River | 40.706 N 73.99667 W | 486.31 | Images |
1909 | Manhattan | New York and Brooklyn, New York, USA | East River | 40.70667 N 73.99167 W | 448.06 | Images |
1928 | Point Pleasant (Silver) | Point Pleasant, West Virginia and Kanauga, Gallipolis vicinity, Ohio, USA | Ohio River | 38.845 N 82.141111 W | 213.36 | 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 |
1931 | St. Johns | Portland, Oregon, USA | Willamette River | 45.585 N 122.76333 W | 367.89 | Images |
1936 | San Francisco-Oakland Bay | Oakland and San Francisco, California, USA | San Francisco Bay | 37.78667 N 122.39 W | 678 | Images |
1937 | Golden Gate | San Francisco and Marin County, California, USA | San Francisco Bay | 37.82 N 122.47667 W | 1,280.16 | 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 |
1964 | Verrazzano Narrows (Verrazano Narrows) | Brooklyn and Staten Island, New York, USA | Verrazano Narrows | 40.60667 N 74.045 W | 1,298.45 | Images |