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The New River is spanned near Fayetteville, West Virginia, by the New River Gorge Bridge . "Bridge Walk" tours are offered on the 2-foot (0.61 m) wide steel catwalk running under the bridge deck. The bridge is also open for BASE jumping once annually on Bridge Day. The New River Gorge and Bridge near Fayetteville, West Virginia
New River waterfront in Jacksonville, North Carolina. The New River is a 50-mile (80-km) long river in southeastern North Carolina in the United States. It empties into the Atlantic Ocean. The river has been plagued in more recent years by pollution by solid waste.
The most significant extension of the New River, however, was the first, an extension of the South Fork called the North New River Canal (also known as the G-15 canal). Dredging for the canal began in 1906, not long after Napoleon B. Broward won the governorship of Florida on a promise to drain the Everglades.
The New River is an artificial waterway in England, opened in 1613 to supply London with fresh drinking water taken from Chadwell and Amwell Springs near Ware in Hertfordshire, and later the River Lea and other sources.
The South Fork New River is a river in the U.S. state of North Carolina.. It stretches from its headwaters at a spring near Blowing Rock and the Eastern Continental Divide and meanders northward along the northwestern face of the Blue Ridge Mountains through the eastern and central portions of Watauga County and then Ashe County in northwestern North Carolina, passing through the town of Boone.
The New River is a stream, about 8 miles (13 km) long, on the southern coast of the U.S. state of Oregon. [3] It begins slightly north of Floras Lake, at the confluence of the lake outlet and Floras Creek, [1] and runs north behind a foredune until entering the Pacific Ocean between Bandon and Port Orford.
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New River, Arizona, a census-designated place in the Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan area; Bradford County, Florida, named New River County from 1858 through 1861; New River Tunnel, in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida