Link to original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y82ZqYdAwEs&t=12s

Done it!!

Well... I've been to the Bridge Day festivities a few times. I'm not quite bold enough to jump.

It's great fun watching those who are, though.

Jumped it back some 25 years ago... Damn seems like yesterday. My first BASE jump.

Not Bridge Day, but I have been to that bridge. You can stack the Washington Monument and the Statue of Liberty under it, one atop the other, and there is still room to spare. If you just drive across the span you won't see anything. Pull into the visitor center on the north side and take a series of staircases down the side for a better view.

Not bridge day but while there we drove the switch backs down to the old bridge it replaced and walked out on it and took pics looking up at the new bridge from close to the water.

Made out of "weathering" steel. That is, after the steel starts rusting and gets a "patina" on it, it serves to block further rusting.

Rappelled it years ago, first time I used a rack instead of a figure 8. Great memory.

Oh yes.
For anyone traveling Rt 19 there if you have 45 minutes or so to spare do pull in the visitor center which is on the north end of the bridge and as egregore mentioned take the old road down cross the bridge and up the other side.

Never made Bridge Day, but had a construction project in the area about ten or fifteen years ago. Rented a cottage for the summer just off Lansing-Edmond Road that, when the leaves started dropping, overlooked The Overlook and The Bridge. We usually ended up with a yard full of rafters camping (we'd let them run extension cords from the cottage).

The locals from the Fayetteville/Oak Hill area were some of the nicest folks I've ever met. As one of the very early developers of the rafting business in the area told me, "Tourists are the price we pay for money."

Been there about 25 years ago. People are nuts. Some of their chutes look like they fully open just before touchdown.

Been under it white water rafting. Does that count?

I have about 10 friends who have jumped that bridge. I’m a skydiver but BASE never appealed to me. Not enough room.

Was there back in the early days.

Couple of 'low pops' there, but I guess nobody augured in...

I was rafting back in the 90s when they bungee'd a vehicle off the bridge

Yep, quite a few times.
In fact, I spent all day today just couple miles up river from the bridge, fishing.

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Originally posted by RHINOWSO:
Couple of 'low pops' there, but I guess nobody augured in...

Always a ray of sunshine, you are....

Have rafted the river a couple times, but have never made it to Bridge Day. If there were more opportunities for base jumping in my area, back in my younger days, I think I would have chose it over skydiving.

Been through there a couple times and down to the river below. Tried but just missed the show one time, came through just as they were packing up.