New River Gorge Bridge near Fayetteville, West Virginia (United States)

All my memories, gather round her
Miner's lady, stranger to blue water
Dark and dusty, painted on the sky
Misty taste of moonshine, teardrop in my eye

Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong, 
West Virginia, 
Mountain mamma, take me home
Country roads

Country Roads

John Denver

Bear Mountain Bridge over the Hudson River between Wortchester and Rockland counties, New York (United States)

O RIVER! gently as a wayward child I saw thee mid the moonlight hills at rest; Capricious thing, with thine own beauty wild, How didst thou still the throbbings of thy breast! Rude headlands were about thee, stooping round, As if amid the hills to hold thy stay; But thou didst hear the far-off ocean sound Inviting thee from hill and vale away, To mingle thy deep waters with its own; And, at that voice, thy steps did onward glide, Onward from echoing hill and valley lone. Like thine, oh, be my course--nor turned aside, While listening to the soundings of a land, That like the ocean call invites me to its strand.

To the Hudson

Elizabeth Oakes-Smith

Harbor Bridge over the port of Corpus Christi in Texas (United States)

I worked the rigs from three to midnight 

On the Corpus Christi Bay 

I'd get off and drink till daylight 
Sleep the morning right away 

I had a plan to take some wages 

Leave the rigs behind for good 

But that life it is contagious 

And it gets down in your blood

Theme by Johny Rodríguez

Brooklyn Bridge between Brooklyn and Manhattan in New York (United States)

But see! the broadening river deeper flows,
Its tribute floods intent to reach the sea,
While, from the west, the fading sunlight throws
Its softening hues on stream, and field, and tree;
All silent nature bathing, wondrously,
In charms that soothe the heart with sweet desires,
And thoughts of friends we ne'er again may see,
Till lo! ahead, Manhattan's bristling spires,
Above her thousand roofs red with day's dying fires.

Poem New York

Theodore Sedgwick Fay

Deception Pass Bridge between Whidbey Island and Fidalgo Island, Washington (United States)

Lost in the forest
Can't find my way home
Can't feel your love
Lost and all alone
It's not so bad
It's not so bad
When your on top of
Deception Pass

Lost track
Of my path
On deception Pass

Deception Pass

Song by band Mudhoney

Sundial Bridge over the Sacramento River in Redding, California (United States)

''Though it is not the center of the world, it is a very beautiful environment for a bridge, with volcanic mountains and dense forests. It will be not only a passage but a place to sit and observe the water.''

Santiago Calatrava

designer of the bridge

Third Avenue Bridge across the Mississipi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)

"The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise"

Mark Twain

Royal Gorge Bridge over the Arkansas River in Fremont County, Colorado (United States)

“What I didn’t expect to discover, within a few short years, is that there were several bridges that were unknown to the outside world that were being constructed, mostly in China, that were actually higher than the Royal Gorge Bridge”

Erik Sakowsky,
bridge "measurer"

HIGHEST BRIDGE IN THE WORLD FROM 1929 TO 2003

Bridge over a canal of the Disney World Park in Orlando, Florida (United States)

"Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world."

Walt Disney

Rainbow Bridge across the Niagara River between the states of Ontario (Canada) and New York (United States)

Heno, the Thundergod lived in a huge grotto behind the Great Fall (Horseshoe). He protected people along the River from a huge serpent which lived in the Gorge. One encounter with the serpent was so tremendous that the middle of the Great Fall was knocked down, thus creating the horsehoe shaped crestline of the now Horseshoe Falls.

Legend of Niagara Falls

Manhattan Bridge over the East River in New York City (United States)

“Movement was the essence of Manhattan. It had always been so, and now its sense of flow, energy, openness, elasticity as Charles Dickens had called it, was headier than ever. Half the city’s skill and aspirations seemed to go into the propagation of motion.” 

From the novel Manhattan 45

Jim Morris

Fred Hartman Bridge or Baytown Bridge over the Houston Ship Channel between Baytown and La Porte, Texas (United States)

Home is where I'm goin' 
No matter how long it takes 
And I've been livin' high 'n' free, love 
It's time for me to try another way 

I think I'll send her a postcard 
So she can meet my plane 
Well I don't know what I'll say to her 
I've caused her so much pain 

Houston, I'm-a comin' to see you 
Houston, has it really been that lo-hong 
I know I've been away 
But I'm just callin' to tell you I'm leavin' today

Houston

Song by Glenn Campbell

Peace Bridge over the Niagara River between Buffalo, New York (United States) and Fort Eire, Ontario (Canada)

"¡Paz, paz, paz! Paz luminosa.
Una vida de armonía
sobre una tierra dichosa."
"Paz sin fin, paz verdadera.
Paz que al alba se levante
y a la noche no se muera."

Rafael Alberti

Mackinac Bridge crossing the Straits of Mackinac in the State of Michigan (United States)

"We now have the largest, well-equipped hotel of its kind in the world for a short season business. Now what we need is a bridge across the Straits."

Cornelius Vanderbilt

owner of the Grand Hotel in Mackinac in 1888 before the construction of the bridge

New River Gorge Bridge near Fayetteville, West Virginia (United States)

“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”

“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”

“I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.”  

From On the Road

Jack Kerouac

Bridge crossing one of the canals in Venice Canals Walkaway, Los Angeles, California (United States)

You can look all over this great big world

You can look down every street

In every bookstore, on every dance floor

At every girl you meet

You can drive out to California

And chase down all of your dreams

I'm sure you'll find someone beautiful

But you'll never, you'll never find me

On Venice Beach
Song by Jen Foster

Jay Covered Bridge over the Ausable River in Jay, New York (United States)

Covered Bridge divides Jay. A new bridge located upstream from the Jay covered brodge would aesthetically harm the area, said a majority of residents who responded to a recent town-wide survey. , the citizens group that has opposed a new structure crossing the AuSable River 600 feet upstream from the historic bridge, mailed surveys to about 1,700 Jay residents. More than 400 were returned and and 72 percent of those agreed . . . that the new bridge would "violate the preservation of this scenic area."

Article in Plattsburgh Republican, 

February 2th, 1996

Brooklyn Bridge over the East River in New York (United States)

Es preciso cruzar los puentes
y llegar al rubor negro
para que el perfume de pulmón
nos golpee las sienes con su vestido
de caliente piña.

From Poeta en Nueva York

Federico García Lorca

Bear Mountain Bridge over the Hudson River between Wortchester and Rockland counties, New York (United States)

He saw at a distance the lordly Hudson, far, far below him, moving on its silent but majestic course, with the reflection of a purple cloud, or the sail of a lagging bark, here and there sleeping on its glassy bosom, and at last losing itself in the blue highlands.

From Rip van Winkle

Washington Irving

LONGEST SUSPENSION BRIDGE IN THE WORLD FROM 1924 TO 1926

Washington Park Lake Bridge in Albany, New York (United States)

Now in the fading woods, the Autumn blast

Chants its old hymn--a melancholy sound!

And look! the yellow leaves are dropping fast,

And earth looks bleak and desolate around.

Autumm

Isaac McLellan