At the bottom of the 174 wooden steps from the Canyon Rim Visitor Center to the lookout on the New ... West Virginia quarter–a coin bearing the image of the bridge. But there is more to the New ...

"Now, it takes 45 seconds." A year after the bridge opened, the federal government established 53 miles of the waterway as the New River Gorge National River; efforts are ongoing to convert the ...

The image most people have of the New River Gorge (if they can picture it at all) is its famous bridge ... that are brimming with West Virginia art. The adventure outfitters near Fayetteville ...

FAYETTEVILLE – Among the most impressive man-made structures in the world spans one of West Virginia ... of the New River Gorge Bridge, the challenge became a work of structural art, the ...

The park extends along 53 miles of the New River ... Bridge Day, when hundreds of BASE jumpers (and rappellers, zipliners and others) launch from the span into the gorge. The event, West Virginia ...

New River Gorge in West Virginia was named America's newest national ... National Park Service The New's most iconic attraction is a single-arch bridge that rises 876 feet over the New River ...