![]() ![]() ![]() This article appears in the Fall/Winter 2021 issue of Southbound. ![]() Once everyone’s stomachs have settled, it’s time for a steaming bowl of chili at the event’s chili cook-off. Amateur thrill-seekers can pony up for a tandem jump, zip-line ride, or harnessed “bridge walk” across a catwalk. There are over 1400 established rock climbs within New River Gorge National Park and Preserve with heights ranging from 30-120 feet. Motorists are urged to find alternate ro According to dispatch, the New River Gorge Bridge is closed this morning. “It’s an absolute giant object,” he says. Both lanes on Route 19 on the New River Gorge Bridge are closed until further notice. The event’s BASE coordinator, Marcus Ellison, notes that the bridge is more than double the height of a typical BASE jump. Meanwhile, rappellers descend by rope and thousands of onlookers cram onto the bridge for a spectacular autumn panorama. ![]() Here, steel beams meet steel nerves as experienced BASE jumpers (like skydivers without the plane) leap into the abyss, one every few seconds for six hours. October 16 is Bridge Day, the largest organized BASE jumping event in the world. Most days it’s traversed by cars and vans loaded with visitors, but once a year, it’s open only to pedestrians-brave, brave pedestrians. Suspended 876 feet above a mighty Appalachian canyon, the New River Gorge Bridge in Fayetteville, West Virginia, is a man-made marvel inside New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, America’s newest national park. ![]()
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