The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge as seen from Cincinnati.
The Purple People Bridge as seen from Kentucky.
As long as I lived in Cincinnati, I never walked across one of the Ohio River bridges. Until now. With my nieces and nephews on a fun day to the Newport Aquarium recently, we decided we would take a bridge walk. From the aquarium, we walked across the Purple People Bridge back to Cincinnati.
After a stop to run through the fountains at Yeatman’s Cove and the Serpentine Wall, we then walked across the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge. This bridge was the longest suspension bridge in the world when it was completed in 1866 and later served as a blueprint for the Brooklyn Bridge. To get back to the car, we took the trolley back to Cincinnati and then to Newport again. Then I drove us all home again across yet another bridge. It was a very “bridgey” day.
My nieces and nephews strike a pose on the Purple People Bridge.
John Roebling designed this bridge and then later created the even longer Brooklyn Bridge.
The Cincinnati skyline.
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