Tacoma Narrows Bridge

Most studied bridge for engineers!

I was aware of this bridge mostly from YouTube clips of its twisting-in-the-wind and subsequent spectacular failure. The bridge ripped apart and fell into Puget Sound at the age of 4 months in 1940. A...

Beautiful bridge

Traveling through Tacoma toward Gig Harbor and back again to the Seattle area you cross this bridge. It is a beautiful structure, with incredible backdrop of surrounding views.

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it's a bridge. nice views of the pacific north west waterways from each side. best view is while walking, but we were there in December and it was snowing so we opted to be the annoying people doing...

Thankful for two bridges

This bridge used to be a pain to travel across due to high traffic and limited lanes both ways. Since the additional bridge was built in 2007, it has transformed that. The easiest way across is to hav...

Engineering marvels

We crossed over them several times, but viewed these two stunning examples of human engineering up close from the Tacoma Narrows Park in Gig Harbor, accessed by the address 1502 Lucille Parkway, Gig H...