On Oct 18, 2008 thousands flocked to Fayetteville to witness jumpers from all around jump off the New River Gorge bridge. Since 1980, Bridge Day has celebrated the engineering marvel completed in 1977 by opening the bridge to pedestrians on the third weekend in October. I, along with my sister, decided to do a zipline off the bridge. We jumped from the catwalk of the bridge and dropped 850 feet. The bridge itself is the longest single-arch steel-span bridge, measuring 876 feet from the river below. It was a wonderful weekend and another event that make me proud to be a West Virginian.
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