The Golden Gate Bridge is Adjournment Bridge extended over the Golden Gate, the one mile wide (1.6km) straight connecting San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. The Shape links the American City of San Francisco, California – the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula- to Marin County, taking both U.S. Route 101 and California State Route 1 beyond Straight. The Bridges is one of the most internationally identified Symbols of San Francisco, California, and the United States. It has been broadcast one of the Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
"The travel guide of Frommer's Chronicle The Golden Gate Bridge as" probably the most beautiful, definite the most photographed, Bridge in the world". It opened in 1937 and was, until 1964, the Longest Adjournment Bridge main spain in the world, at 4,200 feet (1,280m).