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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. People are also allowed to rappel from the span on Bridge Day. [1]
The first person to jump off the New River Gorge Bridge was Burton Ervin, who lives in Cowen, West Virginia, and was a coal-mine foreman. Burton jumped on August 1, 1979, using a conventional parachute. Four BASE jumpers have died at the bridge, three of these during Bridge Day festivals. [12] [13] [14] [15]
Pelkey made his second BASE jump at the 2005 Bridge Day event from the New River Gorge Bridge. He and Schubert planned to jump together at the 2006 event, a few months after the 40th anniversary of their first El Capitan jump. Schubert died jumping at that event, just minutes before Pelkey was scheduled to jump. [4] [5] [6]
West Virginia's largest outdoor festival on the third-highest U.S. bridge next month was canceled Wednesday, a week after a group representing parachutists bailed out. The Bridge Day Commission ...
The commission, mandated by the West Virginia Legislature to supervise what is known as the state's largest one-day festival, met Wednesday in the Fayette County Commission chambers to take the ...
President Jimmy Carter signed legislation establishing New River Gorge National River on November 10, 1978 (Pub. L. 95–625).As stated in the legislation, the park was established as a unit of the national park system "for the purpose of conserving and interpreting outstanding natural, scenic, and historic values and objects in and around the New River Gorge, and preserving as a free-flowing ...
It was a mostly sunny day on July 4, 1929, when Droop Mountain became the first state park in West Virginia. According to newspaper accounts, as many as 10, 000 poured into the place, to see the ...
A scenic view of the New River Gorge from Lovers' Leap at Hawk's Nest State Park, Ansted, West Virginia. Lover's Leap, or (in plural) Lovers' Leap, is a toponym given to a number of locations of varying height, usually isolated, with the risk of a fatal fall and the possibility of a deliberate jump.