Bridge Day

Bridge Day is West Virginia's largest single-day festival and is billed as one of the largest extreme sports events in the world, held on the New River Gorge Bridge in Fayette County. The bridge, the world's fifth-longest single arch, opened on October 22, 1977, and the first Bridge Day was November 8, 1980, when two people parachuted from a plane onto the span and 5,500 people walked across. It is the only day spectators can walk the bridge and watch BASE jumpers leave from 876 feet above the gorge, along with rappellers on the catwalk and highline riders.

Our take: Put the walk across the bridge first, since it is the one day spectators can cross and watch the jumps from that overlook.