The place
When it opened in 1977 this was the world's longest steel arch, and it kept the title until 2003. Burton Ervin parachuted off it in 1979, and Bridge Day began the next year: one Saturday each October, hundreds of jumpers go off the rail and around 100,000 people come to watch. The bridge is on West Virginia's state quarter.
Is it legal? Legal one day a year: Bridge Day.
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The exits and launches
Every exit here, with how hard it is.
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New River Gorge Bridge
■■■■■Bridge Day: a platform over the upstream rail, 876 ft to the river, a jumper every twenty seconds, boats in the water.

