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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. [phone] PHOTOGRAPHER ANDREA JARRELL 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. Send your untouched photo to be used in: [email protected] 18