The Bear Mountain Bridge, ceremonially named the Purple Heart Veterans Memorial Bridge, is a toll suspension bridge in New York State. It carries US 6 and US 202 across the Hudson River between Bear Mountain State Park in Orange County and Cortlandt in Westchester County. At completion in 1924 it was longest suspension bridge in the world until this record was surpassed 19 months later by the Benjamin Franklin Bridge between Philadelphia and Camden, New Jersey. The Bear Mountain Bridge is unconventional among suspension bridges: though its main span is suspended by cables in the usual manner, the approach spans do not have suspender cables and are instead unsuspended trusses, like the Williamsburg Bridge in New York City.
The span enables connections between the Palisades Interstate Parkway and US 9W on the west bank near Bear Mountain and NY 9D on the east bank as well as US 9 and the Bear Mountain Parkway farther east.
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_Mountain_Bridge
Address Bear Mountain Bridge Rd, 10911, United States
Coordinates 41°19'11.862" N -73°59'1.37" E
