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  • [[File:500BridgeMontage.jpg|500px|right|thumb|Bridges between 90 and 100 meters high from around the world]] =Bridges Between 90 and 100 Meters High=
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  • ==Highest Railway Bridges== * [[A Brief History of High Railway Bridges]]
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  • <p>Although technically not bridges, I have included these scenic overlooks on my website for the similarity ma ...became an immediate success and inspired similar platforms, especially in China where there is widespread investment and tourist development underway at do
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  • ...a fee for access. Most of the world's highest footbridges are located in China, Switzerland and Nepal.</p> ...y of tower shapes and decks that soar high above deep chasms and crevasses in picture perfect surroundings.</p>
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  • Come Along On Our 2nd Annual Bridge Trip To China<br /> ...huge ocean crossings including Donghai, Hanghzou Bay and Zhoushan Island. In 2013 the record breaking multi-span Jiashao cable stayed bridge will be joi
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  • | [[:Category:Bridges in Malaysia|Malaysia]] | [[:Category:Bridges in Italy|Italy]]
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  • ...umb|Connecting two mountain ranges - The Balinghe River Bridge in Guizhou, China]] ...over 800 of the highest bridges in North America as well as the 50 tallest bridges of the world.
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  • Come Along On Our 6th Annual Bridge Trip To China<br /> ...n along with Jinshajiang Jin'an, the first high level suspension bridge in China to surpass the main span of the Golden Gate Bridge.
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  • ...LethbridgeViaduct10.jpg|400px|right|thumb|The mile long Lethbridge Viaduct in Alberta, Canada]] ...ring and for timber bridges, Wolcott Foster’s A Treatise on Wooden Trestle Bridges.
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  • Come Along On Our 4th Annual Bridge Trip To China<br /> ...excepted). The trip will only be open to 4 people as we will be traveling in one high clearance SUV. This is no chartered bus trip for a group of 50 peo
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  • Come Along On Our 3rd Annual Bridge Trip To China<br /> ...orld. The trip will only be open to 4 to 6 people as we will be traveling in one high clearance SUV or mini-van. This is no chartered bus trip for a gro
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  • Come Along On Our 5th Annual Bridge Trip To China<br /> ...excepted). The trip will only be open to 4 people as we will be traveling in one high clearance SUV. This is no chartered bus trip for a group of 50 peo
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  • China Balinghe Bridge BASE Event<br /> China's own SWAT team was even present at the event! Image by Eric Sakowski / Hi
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  • ==Highest Railway Bridges== * [[A Brief History of High Railway Bridges]]
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  • ...footbridges that were used for the construction of permanent road and rail bridges as well as dams. All of these spans were only built to last for a few year ...e plastic mesh. Also with few exceptions these are Tibet-style suspension bridges with the deck supported on sagging steel cables that have a natural catenar
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  • Come Along On Our 6th Annual Bridge Trip To China<br /> ...ficial with plans to visit over 20 of the World's Highest Road and Railway Bridges including walkway tours of 5 of the world's highest public and private road
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  • Come Along On Our 7th Annual Bridge Trip To China<br /> ...ficial with plans to visit over 20 of the World's Highest Road and Railway Bridges including walkway tours of 5 of the world's highest public and private road
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  • Come Along On Our 8th Annual Bridge Trip To China<br /> ...r is now official with special plans to visit several major suspension and bridges under construction that are between 300 and 640 meters high including the W
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  • ...The trip will only be open to either 4 or 8 people as we will be traveling in one or two high clearance SUVs. This is no chartered bus trip for a group China's 8 "Royal Gorge Busters"<br />
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  • ...but easy to read text. With one exception, these books cover all types of bridges. Two great books from the early 1900s that would be worthy of this list I ...nclude the industry trade magazines Bridge Design and Engineering, Roads & Bridges, Engineering News-Record and Civil Engineering. There are also many fine i
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  • 2013 China High Bridge Trip Photo Album<br /> ...g student with the famous name of Bruce Lee. On board for the second year in a row was our trusty driver Mr. Chen who navigated us safely along more the
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  • | [[:Category:Bridges in China|China]] | [[:Category:Bridges in China|China]]
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  • China 2013 High Bridge Trip<br /> ...g student with the famous name of Bruce Lee. On board for the second year in a row was our trusty driver Mr. Chen who navigated us safely along more the
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  • 2012 China High Bridge Trip Photo Album<br /> ...ourth Nanjing, Taizhou, Sutong, Chongming, Lupu, Hangzhou Bay and Xihoumen Bridges.
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  • China 2011 High Bridge Trip<br /> ...ook us over more then 3,000 miles / 5,000 kilometers of roads and highways in Mr. Chen's Wuling mini-van.
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  • Yesanguanzhen, Hubei, China<br /> ...ymbol of just how fast and how far China’s highway infrastructure has come in such a short period of time.
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  • * [[:Category:Bridges in Algeria|Algeria]] * [[:Category:Bridges in Armenia|Armenia]]
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  • 2015 China High Bridge Trip Photo Album<br /> ...who has always loved traditional Chinese stone bridges but was interested in experiencing a new type of super span that represent the modern era of Chin
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  • 2012 China High Bridge Trip Photo Album<br /> ...luded visits to half of the world's 20 longest suspension and cable stayed bridges. The adventurous journey took us along 2,000 miles / 3,500 kilometers of r
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  • 2011 China High Bridge Trip Photo Album<br /> ...ook us over more then 3,000 miles / 5,000 kilometers of roads and highways in Mr. Chen's Wuling mini-van.
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  • 2013 China High Bridge Trip Photo Album<br /> ...e, Xixi, Luojiaohe, Yanjinhe, Liuguanghe, Wujiang, Hutiaohe and Zhuchanghe Bridges. We also toured the famous Zunyi conference building.
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  • Guanling, Guizhou, China<br /> ...mountainous Guizhou Province, Balinghe is one of two super high suspension bridges along the 4-lane route.
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  • China 2014 High Bridge Trip<br /> ...eek 2014 High Bridge trip toured through the towering mountains of Western China with 4 big bridge fans including our first 2 U.S. tourists as well as a cou
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  • Xingbeizhen, Guizhou, China<br /> ...nally in 2025 the greatest crossing of all opened just 10 kms to the north in the form of the the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge with a deck height of 625
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  • 2011 China High Bridge Trip Photo Album<br /> ...panjiang 2009, Hutiaohe, Zhuchanghe, Qingshuihe Railway and Malinghe Gorge Bridges.
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  • ...nxing, the first of what will eventually be at least 30 Chinese suspension bridges of greater height. ...ghest bridge in the United States and one of the most popular destinations in the state of Colorado with more than 500,000 visitors a year. Since its co
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  • 2012 China High Bridge Trip Photo Album<br /> ...s one of the newer spans to be built in the Chongqing region having opened in 2009 with a large main span of 460 meters. Image by Eric Sakowski / Highes
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  • Beipanjiangzhen, Zhenfeng, Guizhou, China<br /> ...wn. Located along the Liuzhi to Anlong Expressway that began construction in 2021, the greatest obstacle along this route was a river that has become sy
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  • 2011 China High Bridge Trip Photo Album<br /> ...isha, Aizhai, Liuguanghe, Wujiang, Balinghe, Yanjinhe and Beipanjiang 2003 Bridges.
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  • ...from an exit and overlook just north of the river crossing near St. Flour in the Auvergne region of France. ...engineer Ferdinand Arnodin would go on to build the world’s highest bridge in Constantine, Algeria called the Sidi M’Cid.
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  • 2013 China High Bridge Trip Photo Album<br /> ...included Wulingshan, Furongjiang, Aizhai, Mengdong, Qingping and Lishuihe Bridges. We also toured the amazing Tianmen Mountain, Zhangjiajie and Zhangjiajie
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  • ...from the Aizhai Bridge. Almost 40 jumpers from 15 countries participated in the gathering that was officially titled The 2012 First Xiangxi Aizhai Brid ...tions within these parks are as epic as anything in Yosemite National Park in the U.S. and were the inspiration for the look of the film Avatar.
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  • Dugexiang, Guizhou, China<br /> Toppling all previous spans for height at the time of its opening in 2016, the new Beipanjiang Bridge Duge is the first crossing to ever surpass
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  • Fa’er Bouyei, Guizhou, China<br /> ...reat photos as well as bragging rights of being the only person outside of China to have crossed such a high, Tibet-style footbridge. The 656 foot long (20
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  • Fa’er Bouyei, Guizhou, China<br /> ...dge Qinglong pushed it further down in the overall ranking of high railway bridges.
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  • 2014 China High Bridge Trip Photo Album<br /> ...he trip was great for sightseeing and photography. We also managed to get in some awesome construction tours at the Beipanjiang Railway Bridge Qinglong,
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  • Hutiaoxiazhen, Yunnan, China<br /> ...y twin have become the most photographed and well known suspension bridges in all of Yunnan Province.
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  • Liu Guangzhen, Guizhou, China<br /> ...of being the only beam bridge in history that held the top spot among high bridges. The decision not to use an arch, suspension or cable stayed bridge was pr
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  • ...u Provinces with visits to over 20 of the World's Highest Road and Railway Bridges including walkway tours inside several of the suspension bridge trusses. ...an was the official interpreter with driver Chen on board for the 6th year in a row.
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  • ...th no towers. Many do not consider catenary bridges to be true suspension bridges since they have uneven, sloping decks that are often unstable. ...length of 974 feet (297 mtrs). Constructed in Totsukawa, Nara prefecture in 1954, Tanise is one of Japan’s oldest suspension footbridges and is unusu
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  • ...mtrs). Then in 2009, China finally opened an even higher 4-lane road arch in the form of the Zhijinghe bridge with a deck 965 feet (294 mtrs) above the ...he proud owners of one of the largest and most beautiful bridge structures in the world.
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  • At least 100 meters in height is an unknown viaduct on the SS579 near Granara about 45 miles (73 k ...h) casts a shadow across every building in the small town of the same name in the mountains of Italy’s Abruzzo province.
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  • Changliuxiang, Guizhou, China<br /> ...Xixihe and Luojiaohe bridges. All four are among the world’s 100 highest bridges.
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  • ...sed by others in Nepal, Switzerland, Portugal, Czech Republic, Germany and China. The name comes from the bridge crossing over the famous route B179 that w ...Footbridge in Germany are the 2nd and 3rd longest Tibet-style footbridges in the world.
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  • Kaiyang, Guizhou, China<br /> One of China's highest glass pedestrian tourism spans, the Nanjiang Gorge Glass Footbrid
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  • Langpingzhen, Hubei, China<br /> ...cts Shanghai on the Pacific coast with the cities of Chongqing and Chengdu in the west.
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  • Wanjiazhaizhen, Shanxi, China<br /> ...s located across China's great Yellow River in a remote and arid region of China near the Inner Mongolia Autonomous region.
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  • Jin'an, Yunnan, China<br /> ...the 6,300 long kilometer Yangtze has become the most important waterway in China economically and culturally with one third of the country’s population li
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  • ...sed by the Sky Bridge 721 in the Czech Republic and the Canillo Footbridge in Andorra. The Arouca suspension bridge is supported by two V-shaped concret ...k. The V-shaped angling of the suspender cables may have been inspired by China's Zhangjiajie Glass Footbridge.
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  • Pingliang, Gansu, China<br /> ...middle, this unusual structure is highlighted by a circular glass platform in the center made to resemble a UFO. The X-shaped bridge deck itself is comp
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  • 2018 China High Bridge Trip Photo Album<br /> ...rough several of China's most rugged Provinces to see a wild assortment of bridges, glass overlooks, mountain parks and urban jungles. Our adventure included
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  • Mishima, Shizuoka, China<br /> ...evious record holder the Kokonoe "Yume" Otsurihashi Footbridge that opened in 2006 with a span of 390 meters.
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  • Bertrand comes in for a landing. But where is Lonnie? Image by by Bertrand Cloutier. ...f the most famous BASE jumpers of all time with more then 2,000 jumps made in every corner of the globe. He is also a skydiving champion, surfer, climbe
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  • ...evada with Kingman, Arizona and Interstate 10. Since the dam’s completion in 1935, large trucks had to negotiate several tight switchbacks along the 2-l ...the 550 foot (168 mtr) span of the Fred G. Redmon bridge over Selah Creek in Washington State and the 582 foot (177 meter) Natchez Trace Parkway bridge
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  • Feixian, Shandong, China<br /> ...has never been a place in China known for high bridges. That all changed in 2016 when the giant Yinzuotianmeng Footbridge opened with a near record bre
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  • 2014 China High Bridge Trip Photo Album<br /> ...g and Zongxihe Bridges. We also toured a famous museum and home of a poet in Guizhou.
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  • Shangyi, Hebei, China<br /> ...ld at 450 meters surpassing the 445 meter span Hongyagu Glass Footbridge. In 2020 Daqingshan was surpassed by the 460 meter span of the Huangchuansanxia
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  • ...wn jewel of the greatest bridge and tunnel highway project ever undertaken in North America. Known as the Durango-Mazatlán highway, it will be the only ...nly in China and Italy are there highways with a larger collection of high bridges.
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  • ...was upon its opening the longest pure cantenary footbridge suspension span in the world despite the unique design where the main support cables are above ...r bungee jump as well as a gift shop and other concessions. A smaller pod in the center of the bridge contains the higher 207 meter bungee drop.
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  • ...bridge is located along a popular hiking trail between Zermatt and Grächen in the Valais Canton of Switzerland. ...an of nearly 500 meters was accomplished via 2 main cables totaling 8 tons in weight. The deck is .65 meters wide and sags 20 meters below the anchorage
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  • Lianzhou, Guangdong, China<br /> ...ass Footbridge by 15 meters. Although there are several other footbridges in the world that have longer main spans with sagging or drooping decks, Hongy
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  • Lvzhizhen, Yunnan, China<br /> ...the Lvzhijiang Bridge crosses a remote canyon in central Yunnan Province, China. The distance from tower to mountain anchorage is 780 meters surpassing th
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