Ambassador Bridge over the Detroit River between Detroit, Michigan (United States) and Windsor, Ontario (Canada)

The Ambassador Bridge
In the light of a silver moon
Detroit smiles back at me
As I'm making my way to you
The Ambassador Bridge
And the pale yellow-orange dawn
On my way back to Canada
Sure as anything you're the one

From the song Ambassador Bridge

by Dan Campbell

LONGEST SUSPENSION BRIDGE IN THE WORLD FROM 1931 TO 1937

Mackinac Bridge between MacKinac and Saint Ignace, Michigan (United States)

Took a look down a westbound road right away I made my choice
Headed out to my big two wheeler I was tired of my own voice
Took a bead on the northern plains and just rolled that power on
Twelve hours out of Machinaw City stopped in a bar to have a brew
Met a girl and we had a few drinks and I told her what I'd decided to do
She looked out the window a long long moment then she looked into my eyes
She didn't have to say a thing I knew what she was thinkin'
Roll roll me away won't you roll me away tonight
I too am lost I feel double crossed and I'm sick of what's wrong and what's
right
We never even said a word we just walked out and got on that bike
And we rolled
And we rolled clean out of sight

Lyrics of Roll me away

by Bob Seger

Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge over the St. Mary River in Sault Ste. Marie between Ontario (Canada) and Michigan (United States)

 The workmanship of Nature's hand

No rarer gem than this has shown; 

The glamor soft of fairy land

Upon this luring realm is thrown. 

On boulder vast and current swift

The first gleams of the morning quiver, 

While in a dreary calm I drift

Adown St. Mary's shining river.

St. Mary's River

John M. Talman

Mackinac Bridge crossing the Straits of Mackinac in the State of Michigan (United States)

"We now have the largest, well-equipped hotel of its kind in the world for a short season business. Now what we need is a bridge across the Straits."

Cornelius Vanderbilt

owner of the Grand Hotel in Mackinac in 1888 before the construction of the bridge

Bridge over the Straits of Mackinac between Mackinac and Saint Ignace, Michigan (United States)

O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: 

The north is thine; there hast thou built thy dark Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs, Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car.' He hears me not, but o'er the yawning deep Rides heavy; his storms are unchain'd, sheath'd In ribb'd steel; I dare not lift mine eyes, For he hath rear'd his sceptre o'er the world.

To Winter 

William Blake

Mackinac Bridge between Mackinac and Saint Ignace, Michigan (United States)

In the land of Hiawatha,
Where the white man gazed with awe
At a paradise divided
By the straits of Mackinac

Men are dredging, drilling, blasting,
Battling tides around the clock,
Through the depths of icy water,
Driving caissons down to rock.
....

The Bridge at Mackinack

David S. Steinman