The largest action sport festival in the South

The Festival

The largest action sport festival in the South. It's a celebration of adventure, the outdoors, rad humans, and rad music.

We built this festival to unite and celebrate extreme sports and use it as a catalyst to promote environmental action.

How It Started

The River Games didn't start as a festival. It started as a movement.

Founder Travis Sims built The Cliff Cruise — a waterway-cleanup movement that uses extreme sports as a catalyst for environmental action — and Extreme Vertigo Events, his production company. Those two forces landed in Chattanooga and, in 2024, became the Chattanooga River Games: a city-partnered festival where the competition, the music, and the cleanup are all the same event.

The City is a co-author of this thing, not a backdrop. The Games run in partnership with Chattanooga Parks & Outdoors, Outdoor Chattanooga, and the Chattanooga Tourism Co.

The Crew

Travis Sims — Founder & CEO

Travis is the heart, the passion, and the party behind the Chattanooga River Games.

A pro cliff diver of 10+ years, Travis started at Casa Bonita in Denver before founding Extreme Vertigo Events and The Cliff Cruise — a waterway-cleanup movement that uses extreme sports as a catalyst for environmental action.

Shelby Cundiff — Director of Operations

Event producer and sustainability advocate. Shelby spent her twenties leading therapeutic wilderness expeditions and becoming addicted to climbing multi-pitch routes in the Utah desert.

Kayleigh Perez — Arts Director & Vendor Coordinator

Why Chattanooga

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