A group of West Point cadets studying civil engineering and the conservation nonprofit Open Space Institute wanted the bridge ...

to the Kanawha River in present-day West Virginia. To build this road, 48 timber bridges were constructed. The Humpback Bridge was not one of those original spans – it is actually the fourth or ...

Travel tip: On the third Saturday of October every year, locals and daredevils gather for “Bridge Day—West Virginia’s largest single-day festival—when the bridge closes to traffic and opens to BASE ...

Every year, they have Bridge Day where people actually jump off it with parachutes! Youth Museum of Southern West Virginia has hands-on exhibits that make learning fun. Kids can dig for fossils, play ...

Every October, the town hosts “Bridge Day,” when thousands gather to watch daredevils legally jump off the bridge with parachutes, which is basically West Virginia’s version of a neighborhood block ...

A tractor-trailer driver has been charged with negligent homicide after police said he caused the crash that killed a Fayette County man found dead in a West Virginia ... On the day that Lataille ...

The longtime pilot of the only Ohio River ferry in West Virginia is retiring ... Drive up to New Martinsville, cross the bridge and head back town. That's about a 30-minute trip.

Clay was the law until one day in the fall of 2020 ... Van Houten/The Washington Post) Gauley Bridge sits about 40 minutes outside of West Virginia's capital, Charleston. (Photos by Carolyn ...

U.S. paratroopers commemorated Bridge Day with a skydive in West Virginia. Footage shows Staff Sergeant Class Justin Drake flying alongside Sergeant 1st Class Michael Health during an advanced ...

West Virginia's largest single-day festival took place Saturday with thousands of people gathered on the New River Gorge Bridge in Fayetteville, to watch daredevils BASE jump into the Gorge.

FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. (WBOY) — The New River Gorge Bridge on U.S. Highway 19 in West Virginia will be closed for most of the day on Oct. 19. FILE – Someone BASE jumping on Bridge Day in 2019 (Courtesy: ...

The 45th event celebrates the New River Gorge Bridge and is the largest one-day festival in West Virginia. Travel on the bridge during the festival will be limited to event, emergency and security ...