Valley Park in Hurricane will be the Day 8 stopover for about three hundred Run For The Wall bikers on Wednesday, May 21.

The Wall is the wall which stretches almost 500 feet at the Vietnam Memorial in Washington DC and is inscribed with the names of service members who were classified as dead, missing, or prisoner during the course of the conflict.

The bikers are on a mission that began in 1989 “To promote healing among ALL veterans and their families and friends, to call for an accounting of all Prisoners of War and those Missing in Action (POW/MIA), to honor the memory of those Killed in Action (KIA) from all wars, and to support our military personnel all over the world.”

RFTW was discontinued in 2020 and 2021 because of Covid. Last year, the Day 8 stopover was in Nitro. Valley Park last hosted RFTW in 2023. The RFTW bikers departed from Ontario, California, on May 14th and made an overnight stop in Williams, Arizona. Overnight stops are scheduled for Gallup, NM; Eagle Nest, NM; Limon, CO; Junction City, KS; Wentzville, MO; and Corydon, IN, prior to stopping in Hurricane.

Their Day 8 2025 will begin at 7:30 a.m. EDT in Corydon, Indiana. The bikers are scheduled to pull off I-64 in Hurricane at 5:15 p.m.

Hurricane Mayor Scott Edwards is calling for all who possibly can to come out and greet the bikers. “We are thrilled to host Run for the Wall again this year in Hurricane! I encourage everyone to come out and line the sidewalks between the I-64 exit all the way up to Valley Park. This is the day to pull out your flags to wave and wear patriotic colors. Let’s show these riders our wonderful Hurricane hospitality — and, especially, how much we appreciate their service,” Edwards said.

The RFTW bikers will depart from Hurricane on Thursday (Day 9), stopover in Lewisburg, and arrive in Washington DC on May 23 (Day 10).