What type of wonder is the Golden Gate Bridge?

With its tremendous towers, sweeping cables, and great span, the Bridge is a sensory beauty and engineering wonder featuring color, sound and light.



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The Golden Gate Bridge Hanging from two 746-ft-high towers, its cables -- each a yard thick --are the biggest ever to support a bridge. In fact, the Golden Gate Bridge contains enough cable to encircle the earth three times.

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A symbol of New York City, the building has been named as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers. It was ranked first on the American Institute of Architects' List of America's Favorite Architecture in 2007.

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5 Fun Facts About the Golden Gate Bridge
  • The bridge is actually not golden at all! It's a bright red-orange.
  • It was named one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World.
  • It took four years to build.
  • There are approximately 600,000 rivets in each of the bridge's towers.
  • It's the most photographed bridge in the world.


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The name has nothing to do with its color While it's obvious today that the name isn't related to its color, many tourists assume that it was once gold. In fact, according to the website, “The term Golden Gate refers to the Golden Gate Strait which is the entrance to the San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean.

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The Seven Wonders of the World now comprise: the Great Wall of China, Jordan's ancient rock city Petra, Brazil's Statue of Christ Redeemer, the hilltop city of Machu Picchu in Peru, Mexico's Chichen Itza pyramid, the Colosseum in Rome and India's Taj Mahal.

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The Seven Wonders of the United States chosen are reminiscent of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Picked for modern honors are the Golden Gate Bridge, Hoover Dam, the interstate highway system, Kennedy Space Center, Panama Canal, Trans-Alaska Pipeline and World Trade Center.

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Yes! You can walk across the Golden Gate Bridge and all the way to Sausalito (on the Marin side). I've done it a few times. It's quite a walk, and you'll want to come prepared, but you can get all the way to Sausalito from the bridge on foot.

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The Golden Gate Bridge has always been painted orange vermilion, deemed International Orange. Rejecting carbon black and steel gray, Consulting Architect Irving Morrow selected the distinctive orange color because it blends well with the span's natural setting as it is a warm color consistent with the warm colors of ...

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McArthur-Burney Falls Memorial State Park, California. Burney Falls is a year-round 129 foot waterfall that is fed from an underground spring. The spectacular waterfall was allegedly nicknamed, The Eighth Wonder of the World by the 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909).

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Let's take a look at the modern list of the Seven Wonders of the World:
  • The Great Wall of China. The Great Wall of China is the longest wall in the world! ...
  • Taj Mahal, India. ...
  • Petra, Jordan. ...
  • The Colosseum, Italy. ...
  • Christ the Redeemer, Brazil. ...
  • Chichén Itzá, Mexico. ...
  • Machu Picchu, Peru.


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