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The New River Gorge Bridge is a steel arch bridge 3,030 feet (924 m) long over the New River Gorge near Fayetteville, West Virginia, in the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States. With an arch 1,700 feet (518 m) long, the New River Gorge Bridge was the world's longest single-span arch bridge for 26 years; [ 4 ] [ 5 ] it is now the ...
The Tunney Hunsaker Bridge (also known as the Fayette Station Bridge) is an historic truss bridge over the New River in New River Gorge, West Virginia. [1] The bridge is named after Tunney Hunsaker, American boxer and former chief-of-police at Fayetteville, West Virginia.
Eugene A. Carter Memorial Bridge I-64 / US 119: 1975 [8: South Side Bridge 1936 [8] Replaced earlier bridge opened in 1891 [13] 35th Street Bridge CR 60 63: 1975, 1976 [8] Replaced Kanawha City Bridge opened in 1914 [14] Chuck Yeager Memorial Bridge I-64 / I-77 (West Virginia Turnpike)
Mud River Covered Bridge: ca. 1875: 1975-06-10 Milton: Cabell: Covered Modified Howe truss New River Gorge Bridge: 1977 2013-08-14 near Fayetteville: Fayette: Steel arch Parks's Gap Bridge: 1892 1994-11-04 Martinsburg
Back Run Bridge Ruin 1915 2000 Harrisville Southern Railroad: Back Run Harrisville: Ritchie: WV-73: Williamstown–Marietta Bridge: Replaced Cantilever: 1903 1987 WV 31 / SR 60: Ohio River: Williamstown, West Virginia, and Marietta, Ohio: Wood County, West Virginia, and Washington County, Ohio
Fayetteville is a town in and the county seat of Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. [5] The population was 2,887 at the 2020 census. [2]Fayetteville lies adjacent to the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve and is directly south of the New River Gorge Bridge.
President Jimmy Carter signed legislation establishing New River Gorge National River on November 10, 1978 (Pub. L. 95–625).As stated in the legislation, the park was established as a unit of the national park system "for the purpose of conserving and interpreting outstanding natural, scenic, and historic values and objects in and around the New River Gorge, and preserving as a free-flowing ...
The canyon varies from about 200 feet (61 m) in depth at its upstream end to over 1,200 feet (370 m) deep near its mouth at the New River southeast of Prince. Much of the lower canyon is traversed by an abandoned railroad bed. Today, this former railbed is maintained as a hiking trail by New River Gorge National River.