Editing Mackinac Bridge (section)

==Length==
The bridge opened on November 1, 1957,<ref>{{cite book |title = Mighty Mac: The Official Picture History of the Mackinac Bridge |url = https://archive.org/details/mightymacofficia0000rubi |url-access = registration |first = Lawrence |last = Rubin |publisher = Wayne State University Press |year = 1958 |isbn = 978-0-814-31817-1 |page = [https://archive.org/details/mightymacofficia0000rubi/page/14 14] }}</ref> connecting two peninsulas linked for decades by ferries. At the time, the bridge was formally dedicated as the "world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages", allowing a superlative comparison to the [[Golden Gate Bridge]], which has a longer center span between towers, and the [[San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge]], which has an anchorage in the middle.

It remains the longest suspension bridge with two towers between anchorages in the [[Western Hemisphere]].<ref name="mba-about">{{cite web |author = Mackinac Bridge Authority |date = n.d. |url = https://mackinacbridge.org/about-the-bridge-8/ |title = About the Bridge |publisher = Mackinac Bridge Authority |access-date = January 30, 2010 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091222184021/https://www.mackinacbridge.org/about-the-bridge-8/ |archive-date = December 22, 2009 }}</ref> Much longer anchorage-to-anchorage spans have been built in the [[Eastern Hemisphere]], including the [[Akashi Kaikyō Bridge]] in Japan ({{convert|6532|ft|m|disp=or|abbr=on}}), but the long leadups to the anchorages on the Mackinac make its total shoreline-to-shoreline length of 26,372 feet<ref name="twenty-eight">{{cite web |author = Mackinac Bridge Authority |date = n.d. |url = https://www.mackinacbridge.org/history/the-mighty-mac/ |title = The Mighty Mac |publisher = Mackinac Bridge Authority }}</ref>—{{convert|28|ft|m}} short of {{convert|5|mi|km|spell=in}}—longer than the Akashi Kaikyo ({{convert|2.4|mi|km|disp=or|abbr=on}}).

The length of the bridge's main span is {{convert|3800|ft|m|0}}, which makes it the third-longest suspension span in the [[United States]] and 27th [[List of longest suspension bridge spans|longest suspension span worldwide]]. It is also [[List of longest bridges in the world|one of the world's longest bridges overall]].