What is the Best Bridge in Every U.S. State? 

Honorable mention for Arizona, London Bridge. Its pretty old and probably the most traveled bridge.

Marylander hearing a Patamac River just hurt me and the other 10 Million People living in the BW area

Honorable mention for Oregon: the beautiful St. Johns bridge over the Willamette River in Portland.

I appreciate you acknowledging the existence of Minnesota. My favorite bridge there is the aerial ift bridge in Duluth.

For Minnesota, you should have listed the Duluth Lift Bridge, the new High Bridge in St. Paul, the Mendota Bridge, the Stone Arch Bridge in Minneapolis, the St. Croix Crossing in Stillwater, the Hennepin Avenue Bridge in Minneapolis, Lake Street Bridge, Roberts Street Bridge in St. Paul. Also the pedestrian bridge between Guthrie Theater and Loring Park in Minneapolis. Any of these is a unique representative of the North Star State. You're welcome, ya.

Great vid! Honorable mentions: VA: Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel: 17.6 miles and man-made islands for tunnels for US Navy ships TN: Natchez Trace Pkwy twin concrete arch bridge PA/NJ: several bridges over Delaware River NY: New Tappan Zee Bridge: Cable stay NJ: George Washington Bridge over Hudson River CO: Glenwood Canyon Viaduct: I-70 along Colorado River AZ: Grand Canyon Skywalk: glass foot bridge over Grand Canyon

The Great River Bridge in Burlington Iowa got the royal snub. Ouch!

I love how you featured the Delaware Memorial Bridge and Chesapeake Bay Bridge, because they are some of my personal favorites This is a great video!

It was obvious someone from out of state would select the Astoria-Megler Bridge for Oregon. The St John's, the bridge in Peter Skene Ogden State Viewpoint and Yaquina Bay bridge are also worth a selection for the best in the state. My personal favorite is in fact the Yaquina Bay bridge. The one in the state viewpoint I mentioned is going to be reminiscent of the one you gave to New Mexico. And for future reference, Oregon is said "Or-uh-gin" (uh-gin being like a lazy way of saying again) or "Or-ih-gin". The g is a actual g sound as well, which I say specifically because for some reason many of us in the US make a j sound for Gs.

I was just at the sundial bridge in Redding, CA not even three weeks ago! I'm pretty excited to see it mentioned here

Love it!

Indiana Covered Bridges are #1 🗣️🔥🔥🔥

For Michigan you should've mentioned the Gordie Howe. Even though it is not fully built yet it is the longest stay cable bridge in North America.

Super kool 😎 topic. In 16 months, you can add the Gordie Howe International Bridge to the Michigan / Ontario list.

Too bad you missed the Casselman Bridge in western Maryland, part of the original National Pike.

Im honestly shocked that you didnt mention the Linn Cove Viaduct in North Carolina.

The reason inflation calculators only go back to 1913 is because inflation didn't exist before then. This is when the federal reserve was created. Before 1913, money was just silver and gold. The price could fluctuate, but prices went up and down, not just up.

Your research to produce this vid is commendable. One improvement in the narrative... It woud be great if you would note the length of the main span, since those numbers correspond to the engineering achievement at the time each bridge was built.

You missed the Cart Creek Bridge. It crosses an arm of Flaming Gorge Reservoir in Daggett County, Utah. It is something like 400 feet above the high water level of the reservoir. I don't have any more statistics on the bridge, but it is really worth a look. On a side note, we had a youth activity near the bridge one year soon after the dam was built, and the lake had only begun to fill. So, the bridge was an additional 200 feet above the water level. Three young men disappeared from our campsite. No one knew where they went until they returned. They had crawled over the top of the arches. Look at a picture of the bridge, and you will get an idea of the danger they put themselves into.

Well done but think the bridge in Orange Texas is far more unuque than Dallas Bridge.

Very nicely done!

Nice to see another North Dakotan.

LOVED this video! My favorite bridges are the old ones. I've crossed many of the bridges in this video. A lot mentioned were built after my wandering days (daze?), some replaced bridges I had croosed Next I'd like to see a video on railroad bridges. Thank You! PS: Subscribed! 👍

This is America, we don't care about the metric system.

A very informative video despite some mispronounced words.

Only reason the Pettus Bridge in Alabama made the list is because of the Civil Rights March, nothing else.

Nice job, including the comic elements. This is a great general classroom bridge presentation. Now, it would be very helpful from a safety standpoint to specifically feature those major bridges that contain safe, barrier-separated, protected pathways for pedestrians, cyclists and persons with disabilities. (A few were mentioned in the video, and some others that have protected pathways appeared, but were not necessarily noted.) Please do a whole video on this subject and it will be greatly appreciated. (Side note: There are numerous bridge safe access issues between Indiana and Kentucky.) Thanks and best regards!--Gary M. Davis, Indiana Trails

You missed one in Michigan. The Portage Canal lift bridge. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portage_Lake_Lift_Bridge It connects the upper portion of the Keweenaw Peninsula to the base (separated by natural and man made waterways). It is a double deck, three position, vertical lift bridge that used to carry a railroad on the lower deck, which could be positioned to cary vehicle traffic from the upper level and allow small watercraft passage, or higher for larger vessels. With the railroad removed, it's normal position is now to use the lower deck for vehicles until it is lowered in the winter for snowmobiles to use the lower level. I'd argue that this is even cooler than Mackinac. Which, for its beauty is still just a standard catenary cable suspension bridge, like Golden Gate.

Honorable mention for Ohio: The Y-Bridge over the Licking and Muskingum Rivers in Zanesville. Amelia Earhart said it was one of the most recognizable landmarks in the sky.

First off, love the video The Verrazano bridge may be the longest in NYC, but to me it's definitely not top one for me. Brooklyn Bridge is #1 for me for ushering in the era of bridges tying NY to together in the first place and giving us one big city. I'd have the Manhattan Bridge and Williamsburg brides before it also for their role in tying rapid transit between the two boroughs. The Poughkeepsie railroad bridge (now walkway over the hudson) also for it providing the closes rail crossing to NYC when it was opened. Others that have character like the Hell Gate and Queesboro also are before the Verrazano to me as well. It's big, just also nothing special to me - just one of the long grey bridges in NYC. In my current home in MD, there are a few rail ones that deserve some mention (All pioneered by the B&O railroad). Chesapeake Bay is our flagship car bridge (and still manages to scare a lot of folks apparently), but MD is where common carrier railroads stated. Carrolton Viaduct - 1st stone masonry bridge for railroads built in 1828 and still in use. Thomas Viaduct - Multi-span and curved stone masonry bridge completed in 1835, still in use on a mainline that regularly sees passenger service and 150+ car freight trains (The builder would probably have a heart attack seeing it). Bollman Truss bridge - Last surviving example of the 1st all metal railroad bridge. Not in use for rail - but a pedestrian bridge.

Yeah, my Dallas in the video! 😀Woo-hoo!

CHATTANOOGA MENTIONED RAHHHHHH (you pronounced it wrong but i respect the attempt)

You've missed Wyoming if you don't include the pedestrian bridge in Laramie, over the Union Pacific rail yard.

I like this guy! Good video!

For Delaware, an honorable mention I'd throw in ... would be the Reedy Point Bridge, the Easternmost crossing of the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal. This is quite a fun one to cross, particularly when traveling Northbound from Port Penn, where you can see this large, imposing structure coming up from quite a long way down the road. Builds up the anticipation. From the top you can see the Delaware Memorial Bridge, and the Wilmington skyline. And on a clear day, you might catch a quick glimpse of the Commodore Barry Bridge further down the Delaware River. Then there's also the C&D Canal Railroad/Lift Bridge between St. Georges and Summit. One of the best-looking bridges of its type you'll ever see (unbiased opinion).

Referemce 20:09 in the video: I visited St. Louis and the Arch in 1993 at the peak of the Mississippi River flood... 52 feet above "normal". The Eads bridge is nearly next to the arch. In the underground museum below the arch, there was a photo from the late 1890s of the same then much newer Eads bridge, with Mississippi River flood waters at about the same depth. Who know the river could rise so high the locals were wondering? Uhhh... look at your own photos from 100 years ago... duh!!! Loved the video... Thanks!

NY has some super iconic bridges but my favorite is the Hells Gate bridge connecting Queens and The Bronx. It is a cantilever bridge crossing the East River through Randalls Island and over another smaller river before entering The Bronx. It was completed in 1900 for railroad use, which it remains that way today. It even inspired the design of the Sydney harbor bridge in Australia.

The Verrazano bridge being the best bridge in NY wasn’t on my bingo card

23:04 I know where Taos is, there was a commune there in the sixties. I crossed that bridge when it was pretty much brand new. Hitchhiking!

Best bridge I ever saw was seven diamonds, redoubled! Left side defender led the ace of hearts to my void and it became a lay-down. Oh. Not that type of bridge?

Some suggestions for bridges. North Carolina should definitely be the Linn Cove Viaduct, which carries the Blue Ridge Parkway over a very sensitive (ecologically) slope of Grandfather Mountain. Not only was it designed to have as minimal impact as possible on the ecosystem below, but it actually curves with the mountain. It is the reason why the Blue Ridge Parkway (started in 1935, mostly finished in 1966) took 21 additional years to reach 100% completion, as there was no plan for bridging the gap along Grandfather Mountain until the viaduct was conceived. Kentucky should have an honorable mention for the Lake Barkley Bridge. It's a basket handle tied-arch bridge that traverses the Cumberland River/Lake Barkley side of Kentucky's Land Between the Lakes. More impressive, they lit the underside of the arch, so at night it's amazing to look at. Virginia, one could definitely argue the Yorktown bridge is the best from an engineering perspective. But, some other candidates could include the Varina-Enon bridge, a cable-stay (carries I-295 over the James River), the ACL/RF&P/CSX A-Line bridge, a concrete arch (caries the CSX railroad over the James River just east of downtown Richmond), the High bridge, a traditional railroad trestle (carries a rail trail over the Appomattox River), and if you get real loose with your definition of a bridge, the Triple Crossing in Richmond, which is actually 2 bridges stacked on top of each other over another railroad at grade level and is the only known location in the world where 3 railroads meet at different levels. And some corrections on how, the locals at least, pronounce some words Potomac: Pa-toe-mick Monongahela: Mon-On-Gay-Lia (West Virginia pronunciation) Cuyahoga: Kie-Ya-Ho-Ga Fayette (County): Fae-Yut

Pahtahmac River? It's 'poetoemac'. Stop speaking Canadian. Also, is the Delaware Memorial Bridge in Delaware or New Jersey? I've driven over it lots and lots of times. When I'm going south it's in NJ, but when I'm going north it's in Delaware.

Glad to see you picked the Chesapeake Bay Bridge for Maryland (and, had it not been destroyed, the Francis Scott Key Bridge). I've always thought the Bay Bridge was neat having grown up in Maryland. For me it was the gateway to Ocean City and summer vacations at the beach. I found it fascinating looking at the bridge and scenery while my parents did the driving. It's kind of a "frankenbridge" with all the different styles of bridge, but that makes it unique. Might be one reason why some are scared to death of it.... The Key Bridge was also neat, but that's the one I was scared of when I was a teen driver. Not because I thought it would collapse but because it was steep and high for the distance it spanned. It was the first big bridge I ever drove over (I got lost and didn't have much choice, despite my fears). Was scary at the time but now a fond memory as it is now gone.

Damm rivers in America are so dam big lol love to see a top 10 bridges in the UK :)

For Montana, I would choose Two Medicine Creek bridge on the BNSF Northern Transcon. It is over 200 feet high and has a beautiful setting near the Rockies.

Bridges are pretty cool. Some are truly amazing considering they were built 70+ years ago. I'm also going to chime in on the pronunciation thing, its Cuyahoga (kai-ya-hoe-ga) meaning 'crooked river.' Dang thing caught fire in June '69. It's much much cleaner now. All in all, an informative video showcasing some nice spans. I also like that you recognized pedestrian bridges as well.

You wanna know what type of bridge I'd like to see, in the spot where the Key Bridge once stood? A modern tied arch design. A big one! Perhaps modeled after the Lupu Bridge in Shanghai. Not only would this look stunning, but it would also, at least somewhat, keep the spirit of the old one. If it even had a similar light package to the Lupu Bridge, it could be lit up like a Star Spangled Banner at night. Now tell me, would this not be the perfect successor to the old bridge?

33:07 Virginia: how is the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel not more interesting???

Virginia has the Chesapeake bride tunnel

Linn Cove Viaduct for North Carolina, followed by the Bonner Bridge (now Marc Bassnight Bridge).

Check out the Linn Cove Viaduct along the Blue Ridge Parkway outside of Boone, North Carolina! It’s beautiful and has some great history.

The original Liberty Memorial Bridge was way better, especially given its history.

as a louisiana native... The Huey Long bridge picture used is actually the Huey long bridge that's just up the river from the Horace wilkinson bridge. the one in jefferson parish looks different.

For bridges in Pennsylvania, I'd also check out the Rockville Bridge, just north of Harrisburg, PA.

I like your video BUT, an honorable mention for Washington state should have included the Evergreen Floating bridge, the longest in the world. For Oregon, you could have included some of Conde B McCullough's bridges as well. He was most notable for arches.

Unfortunately, one of the Indiana bridges mentioned is actually in Kentucky. Kentucky claims, and verified by the US Supreme Court, all of the Ohio river so the bridge is essentially in KY, not IN.

4:31 even some of the people😭

The Arrogni Bridge is nice, however, there are many interesting bridges in Connecticut. Just south of the Arrogni Bridge is the Airline Bridge, a railroad bridge. Between Hartford and East Hartford is the Buckley Bridge a stone arch bridge. A covered bridge? Comstock Bridge ...

u would have mentioned the world's two longest floating bridges over Lake Washington

How about a list of most of the bridges on the Hudson River and the NYC area?

Odd that you would put the Sherman Minton Bridge in New Albany, Ind. but the Big 4 Bridge in Louisville, Ky. Both connect Louisville with Indiana cities right across the river. Either the Minton or the Big 4 could be listed in either state.

29:19 how to pronounce it Mon-non-ga-hela

The bridge of the gods is owned by the Port of Cascade Locks Oregon and so would be considered an Oregon bridge

27:53 "Okay. Viaduck? "Via no a chicken?" ---Leonard "Chico" Marx _The Cocoanuts_ 1928

One mispronunciation from my home state, Massachusetts: Zakim is pronounced with a long A.

I disagree with california. Foresthill bridge is the tallest in California and looks awesome looking from the American river.

Woo, F South Dakota in the A!!! Go team ND!!!!

you missed the george washington bridge which is my favorite and the bear mountain bridge. a babt williamsburg style bridge that spans the hudson rover near west point.

Gordoe Howe bridge between Windsor and Detroit

25:01 - What railroad built this bridge and first ran trains over it in 1882?

The river the Keeper of the plains bridge crosses is pronounced Arkan.zuhs NOT Arkun.saw. 😁

eye-eee Hawaii? Do you mean Aiea? It's eye-eh-a. It is the only town in the US that doesn't have a consonant. Also, the Ford Island Bridge replaced a delightful ferry experience.

What’s is Does to Philadelphia to Camden

Bridge between Savanna Illinois and Sabula Iowa.

Hmmmmm, you talk a lot of crap about neighboring states for someone that lives in a state with no people. Did you talk to the other two residents to help you with your jokes? (Just joking obviously, but there's a lot of better Minnesota choices imo. The Aerial Lift bridge in Duluth, Hastings Bridge in Hastings, the Stillwater Bridge in Stillwater, the St. Croix Crossing in Stillwater, the Washington Avenue Bridge in Minneapolis, and the High Falls Bridge at Goosberry Falls are all better imo. There's some others I know I'm missing as well.)

Liked your video until you left a unique and kinda rare bridge off the list. That's the Fort Madison Iowa Santa Fe bridge. It's the biggest swing span in this part of the hemisphere. So I gave you a thumbs down. Sorry.

29:18 oof Monongahela: [mah-non-gah-HEE-lah] [mah-nah-gah-HEE-lah] is also acceptable. Try saying that fast? That is part of my experience as a 12-year old who had to learn to pronounce and spell it.

Verrazano-Narrows???? Huhhh?

It’s paTAPsco not paTOPsco

You said Oregon wrong!!!

Not from the U.S. are you. You pronounced a lot of these wrong. Yikes.

Dude needs to learn how to pronounce these names. 🤦‍♂️

Dude, you absolutely BUTCHERED some of these place names. Like to the point that it detracts from an otherwise enjoyable video. I get that you’re an engineer, not a linguist, but at least try to find out the correct pronunciations.

List of Historic bridges in Wyoming en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridges_on_the_National_Register_of_Historic_Places_in_Wyoming

Almost every bridge in my state is green