A massive cleanup effort to remove all the lead-based paint from the bridge started in 1965 and ended in 1995--thirty years later. Today, a zinc-based primer paint is used instead.

The Golden Gate Bridge was originally designed to safely withstand winds of up to 68 mph (109 km/h), but in 2019, as part of the retrofitting of the bridge, the railings on the west side of the pedestrian walkway were replaced with thinner, more flexible slats in order to improve the bridge's aerodynamic tolerance of high wind to 100 mph (161 km/h).

The total construction cost came in at $35 million which included $27,125,000 for the construction of the structure, $2,050,000 for Engineering and Inspection, $423,000 for Administrative and Preliminary Expenses, $4,068,000 for Financing, and $1,334,000 in surplus.

Of eleven men killed from falls during construction, ten were killed on February 17, 1937, when a section of scaffold carrying twelve men fell through the safety net.

In A View to a Kill, 007 and wealthy industrialist Max Zorin fight on the bridge, and Zorin falls to his death into the San Francisco Bay.

There are approximately 600,000 rivets in each tower.

Upon completion of the bridge in May 1937, Strauss wrote a poem that is now on the Golden Gate Bridge entitled "The Mighty Task is Done." He died in Los Angeles just one year later. His statue can still be seen on the San Francisco side of the bridge.