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The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge that connects the city of San Francisco on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula and the Marin County headlands near Sausalito in California. The mile+ long bridge is one of the most famous San Francisco attractions and has become an internationally recognized symbol of that city. Visitors to the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, or Golden Gate Park, as it’s known to the locals, will want to bring their cameras for the excellent photo opportunities they’ll find here.
Though it is currently the 2nd longest suspension bridge in the United States after the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York City, the Golden Gate Bridge was the largest suspension bridge in the world when it was built in 1937.
The bridge was the brainchild of drawbridge engineer Joseph Strauss. Strauss spent more than a decade getting the project off the ground, so to speak. Other key figures in the bridge's construction were architect Irving Morrow, engineer Charles Alton Ellis and bridge designer Leon Moisseiff.
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