Bridge Day

Bridge Day is an annual one-day festival in Fayetteville, Fayette County, West Virginia, United States[1] The event is coordinated by the New River Gorge Bridge Day Commission, and is sponsored by numerous companies of both local and international significance.

[2] The event, held on the third Saturday every October, commemorates the 1977 completion of the New River Gorge Bridge.

[5] Bridge Day is the only day of the year people are allowed to BASE jump[1][6] off the bridge into the New River Gorge 876 feet (267 meters) below, one of the few exceptions to a general ban on BASE jumping within the U.S. National Park System.

[13] In 1992, New Zealander Chris Allum, bungee jumped 823 ft (251 m) from the bridge to set a world's record for the longest bungee jump from a fixed structure, stopping about 40 feet above the river.

However, considerable amount of time required for a bungee jumpers to be reel back up, in which time BASE jumpers are not allowed to jump, prompted the banning of bungee jumping at Bridge Day since 1994.