The New River Gorge National River is a unit of the United States National Park Service designed to
protect and maintain the New River Gorge in southern West Virginia. Established in 1978, the NPS-
protected area stretches for 53 miles from just downstream of Hinton to Hawks Nest State Park near
Ansted.
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The New River Gorge Bridge is a steel arch bridge 3,030 feet long over the New River Gorge near
Fayetteville, West Virginia, in the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States. Wikipedia
Address: US-19, Victor, WV 25938
Height: 876′
Clearance below: 876′
Construction started: June 1974
Location: Fayetteville, Fayette County
Did you know:
The New River Gorge Bridge would be the
longest spanning single-arch bridge
in the world at the time.
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