List of bridges in the United States by height
This is a list of the highest bridges in the United States by height over land or water. Height in this list refers to the distance from the bridge deck to the lowest point on the land, or the water surface, directly below. A bridge's deck height is greater than its clearance below, which is measured from the bottom of the deck structure, with the difference being equal to the thickness of the deck structure at the point with the greatest clearance below. Official figures for a bridge's height are often provided only for the clearance below, so those figures may be used instead of actual deck height measurements. For bridges that span tidal water, the clearance below is measured at the average high water level.
The minimum height for inclusion in this list is , which may be either the deck height or the clearance below depending on available references. Note that the following types of bridges are not included in this list: demolished high bridges; historic high bridges such as those over reservoirsregardless of current reservoir levelsthat were filled after the bridge was complete, unless the dam has since been removed; and vertical-lift bridges, even those with raised span heights greater than this list's minimum height.
The clearance below required under bridges for the largest shipscontainer ships, ocean liners and cruise shipsis around so there are often bridges with approximately that height located in coastal cities with bays or inlets, such as New York City's Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.
List of bridges
| Name | Height | Spans | Completed | State |
| Royal Gorge Bridge | 955 | Arkansas River | 1929 | Colorado |
| Mike O'Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge | 900 | Colorado River | 2010 | Arizona / Nevada |
| New River Gorge Bridge | 876 | New River | 1977 | West Virginia |
| Foresthill Bridge | 730 | American River | 1973 | California |
| Glen Canyon Dam Bridge | 700 | Colorado River | 1959 | Arizona |
| Phil G. McDonald Bridge | 700 | Glade Creek | 1988 | West Virginia |
| Rio Grande Gorge Bridge | 565 | Rio Grande | 1965 | New Mexico |
| Perrine Bridge | 486 | Snake River | 1976 | Idaho |
| Navajo Bridge | 470 | Colorado River | 1929 / 1995 | Arizona |
| Moyie River Canyon Bridge | 464 | Moyie River | 1965 | Idaho |
| Pine Valley Creek Bridge | 450 | Pine Valley Creek | 1974 | California |
| Cold Spring Canyon Arch Bridge | 400 | Cold Spring Canyon | 1964 | California |
| Burro Creek Bridge | 388 | Burro Creek | 1966 / 2005 | Arizona |
| High Steel Bridge | 375 | Skokomish River | 1929 | Washington |
| Hoffstadt Creek Bridge | 370 | Hoffstadt Creek | 1994 | Washington |
| Lewiston–Queenston Bridge | 370 | Niagara River | 1962 | New York / Ontario |
| Hansen Bridge | 350 | Snake River | 1966 | Idaho |
| Vance Creek Bridge | 347 | Vance Creek | 1929 | Washington |
| Thomas Creek Bridge | 345 | Thomas Creek | 1961 | Oregon |
| Fred G. Redmon Bridge | 325 | Selah Creek | 1971 | Washington |
| Crooked River Railroad Bridge | 320 | Crooked River | 1911 | Oregon |
| Rex T. Barber Veterans Memorial Bridge | 300 | Crooked River | 2000 | Oregon |
| Hurricane Gulch Bridge | 296 | Hurricane Gulch | 1921 | Alaska |
| Crooked River High Bridge | 295 | Crooked River | 1926 | Oregon |
| Galena Creek Bridge | 295 | Galena Creek | 2012 | Nevada |
| Sunlight Creek Bridge | 285 | Sunlight Creek | 1985 | Wyoming |
| Young's High Bridge | 283 | Kentucky River | 1889 | Kentucky |
| High Bridge of Kentucky | 275 | Kentucky River | 1877 | Kentucky |
| Pecos River High Bridge | 275 | Pecos River | 1944 | Texas |
| Pecos River Highway Bridge | 273 | Pecos River | 1957 | Texas |
| Emlenton Bridge | 270 | Allegheny River | 1968 | Pennsylvania |
| U.S. Route 460 Connector Bridge | 265 | Grassy Creek | 2016 | Kentucky / Virginia |
| Bixby Creek Bridge | 260 | Bixby Creek | 1932 | California |
| Confusion Hill Bridges | 255 | South Fork Eel River | 2009 | California |
| Fairfax Bridge | 250 | Carbon River | 1921 | Washington |
| Mingo Creek Viaduct | 250 | Mingo Creek | 2002 | Pennsylvania |
| Clays Ferry Bridge | 245 | Kentucky River | 1946 / 1963 / 1998 | Kentucky |
| George Westinghouse Bridge | 240 | Turtle Creek | 1932 | Pennsylvania |
| Jeremiah Morrow Bridge | 239 | Little Miami River | 2016 | Ohio |
| Kuskulana River Bridge | 238 | Kuskulana River | 1910 | Alaska |
| Verrazano-Narrows Bridge | 228 | The Narrows | 1964 | New York |
| Peter Guice Memorial Bridge | 225 | Green River | 1972 | North Carolina |
| Whirlpool Rapids Bridge | 225 | Niagara River | 1897 | New York / Ontario |
| Golden Gate Bridge | 220 | Golden Gate | 1937 | California |
| Laurel Creek Gorge Bridge | 220 | Laurel Creek | 2002 | North Carolina |
| San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge | 220 | San Francisco Bay | 1936 | California |
| George Washington Bridge | 212 | Hudson River | 1931 | New York / New Jersey |
| Valley View Bridge | 212 | Cuyahoga Valley | 1977 | Ohio |
| Walkway over the Hudson | 212 | Hudson River | 1889 | New York |
| Lewis and Clark Bridge | 210 | Columbia River | 1930 | Oregon / Washington |
| Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge | 206 | Narragansett Bay | 1969 | Rhode Island |
| St. Johns Bridge | 205 | Willamette River | 1931 | Oregon |
| U.S. Route 53 Bridge | 204 | Rouchleau Mine Pit | 2017 | Minnesota |
| Leo Frigo Memorial Bridge | 203 | Fox River | 1981 | Wisconsin |
| Rainbow Bridge | 202 | Niagara River | 1941 | New York / Ontario |
| Hite Crossing Bridge | 200 | Colorado River | 1966 | Utah |
| Mackinac Bridge | 200 | Straits of Mackinac | 1957 | Michigan |
| Mon–Fayette Expressway Bridge | 200 | Monongahela River | 2013 | Pennsylvania |
| Red Cliff Bridge | 200 | Eagle River | 1940 | Colorado |
| San Diego–Coronado Bridge | 200 | San Diego Bay | 1969 | California |
| Tacoma Narrows Bridge | 200 | Tacoma Narrows | 1950 / 2007 | Washington |
| Astoria–Megler Bridge | 196 | Columbia River | 1966 | Oregon / Washington |
| Commodore Barry Bridge | 192 | Delaware River | 1974 | Pennsylvania / New Jersey |
| San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge | 191 | San Francisco Bay | 2013 | California |
| Hawk Falls Bridge | 190 | Mud Run | 1957 | Pennsylvania |
| Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge | 186 | Cooper River | 2005 | South Carolina |
| Chesapeake Bay Bridge | 186 | Chesapeake Bay | 1952 / 1973 | Maryland |
| Francis Scott Key Bridge | 185 | Patapsco River | 1977 | Maryland |
| Richmond–San Rafael Bridge | 185 | San Francisco Bay | 1956 | California |
| Sidney Lanier Bridge | 185 | Brunswick River | 2003 | Georgia |
| Talmadge Memorial Bridge | 185 | Savannah River | 1991 | Georgia |
| Vincent Thomas Bridge | 185 | Los Angeles Harbor | 1963 | California |
| Soo Line High Bridge | 184 | St. Croix River | 1911 | Minnesota / Wisconsin |
| Sunshine Skyway Bridge | 181 | Tampa Bay | 1987 | Florida |
| Deception Pass Bridge | 180 | Puget Sound | 1935 | Washington |
| Fred Hartman Bridge | 178 | Houston Ship Channel | 1995 | Texas |
| Rainbow Bridge | 177 | Neches River | 1936 | Texas |
| Dames Point Bridge | 175 | St. Johns River | 1989 | Florida |
| Fremont Bridge | 175 | Willamette River | 1973 | Oregon |
| Horace Wilkinson Bridge | 175 | Mississippi River | 1968 | Louisiana |
| Sam Houston Ship Channel Bridge | 175 | Houston Ship Channel | 1982 | Texas |
| Wilson Creek Bridge | 175 | Wilson Creek | 2001 | Virginia |
| Delaware Memorial Bridge | 174 | Delaware River | 1951 / 1968 | Delaware / New Jersey |
| Beaver River Bridge | 170 | Beaver River | 1952 | Pennsylvania |
| Crescent City Connection | 170 | Mississippi River | 1958 / 1988 | Louisiana |
| E. H. Swindell Bridge | 170 | East Street Valley | 1930 | Pennsylvania |
| Sunshine Bridge | 170 | Mississippi River | 1964 | Louisiana |
| Wissahickon Memorial Bridge | 170 | Wissahickon Creek | 1932 | Pennsylvania |
| Massachusetts Turnpike's Westfield River Bridge | 166 | Westfield River | 1957 | Massachusetts |
| Veterans Memorial Bridge | 165 | Mississippi River | 1995 | Louisiana |
| Quechee Gorge Bridge | 163 | Ottauquechee River | 1911 | Vermont |
| Hi-Line Railroad Bridge | 162 | Sheyenne River | 1908 | North Dakota |
| High Bridge | 160 | Mississippi River | 1987 | Minnesota |
| Hale Boggs Memorial Bridge | 158 | Mississippi River | 1983 | Louisiana |
| Bear Mountain Bridge | 155 | Hudson River | 1924 | New York |
| Blue Water Bridge | 155 | St. Clair River | 1938 / 1997 | Michigan / Ontario |
| Gerald Desmond Bridge | 155 | Cerritos Channel | 1968 | California |
| Huey P. Long Bridge | 153 | Mississippi River | 1935 | Louisiana |
| Walt Whitman Bridge | 153 | Delaware River | 1957 | Pennsylvania / New Jersey |
| Ambassador Bridge | 152 | Detroit River | 1929 | Michigan / Ontario |
| Kingston–Rhinecliff Bridge | 152 | Hudson River | 1957 | New York |
| Mathews Bridge | 152 | St. Johns River | 1953 | Florida |
| Bayonne Bridge | 151 | Kill Van Kull | 1931 | New York / New Jersey |
| Conde McCullough Memorial Bridge | 150 | Coos Bay | 1936 | Oregon |
| John E. Fitzgerald Bridge | 150 | U.S. Routes 6 and 11 | 1955 | Pennsylvania |
| Paul Bryant Bridge | 150 | Black Warrior River | 2004 | Alabama |
| Rosendale Trestle | 150 | Rondout Creek | 1872 | New York |
| Thousand Islands Bridge | 150 | Saint Lawrence River | 1937 | New York / Ontario |
| Varina-Enon Bridge | 150 | James River | 1990 | Virginia |
| Carquinez Bridge | 148 | Carquinez Strait | 1958 / 2003 | California |
| Cut River Bridge | 147 | Cut River | 1947 | Michigan |
| Walnut Lane Bridge | 147 | Wissahickon Creek | 1908 | Pennsylvania |
| Jordan Bridge | 145 | Southern Branch Elizabeth River | 2012 | Virginia |
| Natchez Trace Parkway Bridge | 145 | State Route 96 | 1994 | Tennessee |
| Rip Van Winkle Bridge | 145 | Hudson River | 1935 | New York |
| Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge | 145 | James River | 2002 | Virginia |
| Glenn L. Jackson Memorial Bridge | 144 | Columbia River | 1982 | Oregon / Washington |
| Henry Hudson Bridge | 143 | Spuyten Duyvil Creek | 1936 | New York |
| Outerbridge Crossing | 143 | Arthur Kill | 1928 | New York / New Jersey |
| Triborough Bridge | 143 | East River | 1936 | New York |
| Throgs Neck Bridge | 142 | East River | 1961 | New York |
| Hart Bridge | 141 | St. Johns River | 1967 | Florida |
| Cochrane–Africatown USA Bridge | 140 | Mobile River | 1991 | Alabama |
| Confusion Hill Bridges | 140 | South Fork Eel River | 2008 | California |
| Goethals Bridge | 140 | Arthur Kill | 1928 | New York / New Jersey |
| Governor Thomas Johnson Bridge | 140 | Patuxent River | 1977 | Maryland |
| High Bridge | 140 | Harlem River | 1848 / 1927 | New York |
| Israel LaFleur Bridge | 140 | Calcasieu River | 1962 | Louisiana |
| New Tappan Zee Bridge | 139 | Hudson River | 2017 | New York |
| Albertus L. Meyers Bridge | 138 | Little Lehigh Creek | 1913 | Pennsylvania |
| Benicia–Martinez Bridge | 138 | Carquinez Strait | 1962 / 2007 | California |
| Corpus Christi Harbor Bridge | 138 | Port of Corpus Christi | 1959 | Texas |
| Tappan Zee Bridge | 138 | Hudson River | 1955 | New York |
| Cascade Creek Trestle | 137 | Cascade Creek | 1889 | Colorado |
| U.S. Route 20 Iowa River Bridge | 137 | Iowa River | 2003 | Iowa |
| Antioch Bridge | 135 | San Joaquin River | 1978 | California |
| Benjamin Franklin Bridge | 135 | Delaware River | 1926 | Pennsylvania / New Jersey |
| Betsy Ross Bridge | 135 | Delaware River | 1976 | Pennsylvania / New Jersey |
| Bourne Bridge, Sagamore Bridge | 135 | Cape Cod Canal | 1935 | Massachusetts |
| Bronx–Whitestone Bridge | 135 | East River | 1939 | New York |
| Brooklyn Bridge | 135 | East River | 1883 | New York |
| Calcasieu River Bridge | 135 | Calcasieu River | 1952 | Louisiana |
| Castleton Bridge | 135 | Hudson River | 1959 | New York |
| Charles M. Braga Jr. Memorial Bridge | 135 | Taunton River | 1965 | Massachusetts |
| Delaware River–Turnpike Toll Bridge | 135 | Delaware River | 1956 | Pennsylvania / New Jersey |
| Girard Point Bridge | 135 | Schuylkill River | 1985 | Pennsylvania |
| Gold Star Memorial Bridge | 135 | Thames River | 1943 / 1973 | Connecticut |
| Governor Harry W. Nice Memorial Bridge | 135 | Potomac River | 1940 | Maryland / Virginia |
| Hell Gate Bridge | 135 | East River | 1916 | New York |
| Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge | 135 | Narragansett Bay | 1992 | Rhode Island |
| Manhattan Bridge | 135 | East River | 1909 | New York |
| Mid-Hudson Bridge | 135 | Hudson River | 1930 | New York |
| Mount Hope Bridge | 135 | Mount Hope Bay | 1929 | Rhode Island |
| Newburgh–Beacon Bridge | 135 | Hudson River | 1963 / 1980 | New York |
| Penobscot Narrows Bridge and Observatory | 135 | Penobscot River | 2006 | Maine |
| San Mateo–Hayward Bridge | 135 | San Francisco Bay | 1967 | California |
| Sidney Sherman Bridge | 135 | Houston Ship Channel | 1973 | Texas |
| Tobin Bridge | 135 | Mystic River | 1950 | Massachusetts |
| Williamsburg Bridge | 135 | East River | 1903 | New York |
| All-America Bridge | 134 | Little Cuyahoga River | 1982 | Ohio |
| Washington Bridge | 134 | Harlem River | 1888 | New York |
| Henderson County Bridge | 132 | Green River | 1927 | North Carolina |
| Queensboro Bridge | 130 | East River | 1909 | New York |