White Water Rafting West Virginia

Known as the “Gateway” to Southern West Virginia, the New River Gorge Bridge is West Virginia’s most famous landmark. The bridge is the longest steel arch bridge in the world and the second highest. The bridge’s arch is 900 feet and has a length of more than 3,000 feet and is a man-made marvel of engineering and construction. New River Gorge Bridge lures daredevils from all over the globe for bungee jumping on Bridge Day, the one day in October that it is legal to jump from the bridge. If you aren’t quite up to jumping off the bridge, you can walk across this engineering marvel and peer directly down at the New River from the catwalk on the Bridge Walk tours available year round. The bridge climb experience is a new and exciting opportunity for you to actually walk out on the underside of the bridge on what used to be a service and inspection only catwalk. Don’t worry, you will be professionally guided and expertly harnessed to the bridge with no chance of falling. For the less daring, the fall scenery and Hiking near the bridge rivals any in New England, and springtime at the Bridge presents a glorious display of flowering trees and greenery.

The New River Gorge Bridge Day occurs once a year in October. It is the largest single one day festival in the State of west Virginia. Over 200,000 people have turned out for this event in the past to enjoy the food, the arts and crafts, and especially the sight of BASE jumpers leaping off the New River Gorge Bridge with only parachutes preventing a crash landing in the river below. The parachutes themselves are beautiful as well as exciting. Come white water rafting on the Lower New River Gorge and end your day under the bridge to watch this spectacle.

The New River Bridge Walk is the newest activity in the Gorge. You can now walk out onto the cat walk or inspection walkway of the New River Gorge Bridge and observe firsthand the inner workings of one of the largest and most iconic bridges in the world. Our Bridge walk focuses on natural history, architecture, commerce, geology and the local flora and fauna. Nothing is allowed on the bridge and your safety is our utmost priority. A stainless steel cable runs the length of the catwalk to ensure your safety while on this tour. Our professional guide team will escort you out to the center of the arch suspended 876’ above the river below. Photographs will be taken here by our professional photographers before continuing your journey to the other side of the Gorge.