High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Bridge Day is an annual one-day festival in Fayetteville, West Virginia, sponsored by the Fayette County Chamber of Commerce. The event, held on the third Saturday every October, commemorates the 1977 completion of the New River Gorge Bridge. On this day, all four lanes of the bridge are closed to automobiles and opened to pedestrians. Estimates have 80,000 people attending the overall event.