The wildly popular, all-seasons wonder that is the Gatlinburg SkyBridge had to be closed briefly Monday night after park officials said a guest cracked one of the glass panels on the bridge.
It was reopened Tuesday after workers temporarily replaced the glass panel with cedar planks, according to an Instagram post.
According to SkyLift Park, a guest "opting not to comply with posted rules of 'no running, jumping, or bouncing' " on the bridge attempted a baseball-style slide across the glass and chipped it with a metal object on their clothes, resulting in noticeable cracks on the protective top layer of one glass pane, WBIR reported.
The bridge features three glass panels at its center, each measuring 5' x 5'. The park said the structural glass is three-ply with an upper layer serving solely as protection for the other layers. That part of the structure does not affect the integrity of the overall bridge.
“Temporarily replacing one of the 3 glass panels with cedar planks was a project that we completed earlier today,” a message on Instagram read.
The bridge opened in May 2019, making it the longest pedestrian suspension bridge in America.
The 680-foot-long SkyBridge is part of the SkyLift Park at the top of Crockett Mountain in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
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