Newport, Kentucky - Purple People Bridge

Newport, Kentucky - Purple People Bridge

Just thought you'd want to know that the Purple People Bridge Climb ($60, later reduced to $40) has closed, at least for now. You can still walk across the bridge and the bridge is still purple, but the only bridge climb in the Northern Hemisphere is closed. [Chris Meiman, 06/22/2007]

Newport, Kentucky - Purple People Bridge

The city of Cincinnati temporarily solved one of Speigel's Purple People Bridge problems by providing something to look at. During the Tallstacks celebration, the Ohio River was lined with riverboats and the bridge was lined with climbers. On the festival's last day, I don't think the bridge was ever entirely devoid of purple suits and, at at least one point, there were clusters of them atop four of the bridges arches. The price was down to thirty bucks, perhaps permanently. I'm guessing that attendance is back to normal now that the big boats have left town. [Denny Gibson, 10/27/2006]

Newport, Kentucky - Purple People Bridge - Appeal a Tall Order
It sounded like a great idea to politicians and boosters of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Newport, Kentucky: lease an abandoned bridge over the Ohio River to a promoter who would then paint it a garish color and convince people to pay $60 a piece to walk across it. The promoter said that 80,000 people a year would pay for the experience, pumping about $30 million a year into the local economy.... [10/21/2006] Complete News Story