It actually comes from the Golden Gate Strait. Explorer John C. Frémont named it in the mid-1800s. The term “Golden Gate” means a golden gateway, like the Golden Horn in Istanbul. Let’s ...

Spanning across the Golden Gate strait, the mile wide, three-mile-long channel between San Francisco and the Pacific Ocean, the Golden Gate Bridge at the time of its opening became the biggest ...

The bridge's name, "Golden Gate," actually refers to the body of water it spans (the Golden Gate Strait that connects the Pacific Ocean with the San Francisco Bay), and was built to make travel ...

The narrow strait between Marin County and San Francisco is one of the world's most tumultuous bodies of water. Up to 335 feet deep and only a mile and a quarter wide, the Golden Gate is the ...

At that point, Europeans had been sailing past the narrow Golden Gate strait for over two centuries, missing sight of the giant natural port of San Francisco Bay just beyond. Once the soldiers ...

Only the very tip of the bridge is visible above the thick cloud. At times, the 746ft structure across the Golden Gate strait, the mile-wide, three-mile-long channel between San Francisco Bay and ...

The bridge's name, "Golden Gate," actually refers to the body of water it spans (the Golden Gate Strait that connects the Pacific Ocean with the San Francisco Bay), and was built to make travel ...

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 ...