One year after its long-delayed completion, the $224 million steel-webbed suicide deterrent hanging under the Golden Gate Bridge appears to be working. Over the past 20 years, there have been ...

The Golden Gate Bridge's builders introduced many innovations, but perhaps the most impressive was the precise and efficient technique they used to construct the massive cables. The bridge's ...

The Golden Gate Bridge’s name isn’t from the Gold Rush. It actually comes from the Golden Gate Strait. Explorer John C. Frémont named it in the mid-1800s. The term “Golden Gate” means a ...

Irving Morrow romanticized the Golden Gate long before he became a consulting architect on the bridge that would span it. The narrow strait, he wrote in 1919, "is caressed by breezes from the blue ...

The Golden Gate Bridge is an iconic representation of San Francisco. This photo was taken from a ferry boat crossing the Bay.

The five-year, $224 million project to install nets on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco to reduce the number of suicide deaths is saving lives as intended. In 2024, there were eight deaths ...

The Golden Gate Bridge's vaulting, orange arches amidst the rocky seascape of the San Francisco Bay have made it one of the West Coast's most enduring symbols and the city's most popular tourist ...