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The district includes the Foster Falls Hotel, a late-Victorian style brick building. The hotel property includes two brick dependencies associated with an orphanage that occupied the hotel building beginning in 1938. It now serves as the headquarters of the New River Trail State Park. [4] It was listed on the National Register of Historic ...
Volunteers worked alongside park staff to pull tires, tarps, and other debris from the New River. New River Trail State Park is a 57.7-mile (92.9 km) rail trail and state park located entirely in southwest Virginia, extending from the trail's northeastern terminus in Pulaski to its southern terminus in Galax, with a 5.5-mile (8.9 km) spur from Fries Junction on the main trail to Fries.
New River Trail State Park, 176 Orphanage Dr. 36°53′03″N 80°51′19″W / 36.884167°N 80.855278°W / 36.884167; -80.855278 ( Foster Falls Historic Max Meadows
The Jackson Ferry Shot Tower is a 75-foot (23 m) tall tower used for manufacturing lead shot located in Wythe County, Virginia [3] and now adjacent to the New River Trail State Park, a lineal rail trail park connecting the historic towns of Pulaski and Galax, Virginia.
The Martin Site (44WY13) is a prehistoric Native American village site in Wythe County, Virginia, United States. It is located on the banks of the New River near the community of Fosters Falls. The site has clear evidence of occupation during the Late Woodland period, and offers evidence of older occupation.
Hikers can view 29 waterfalls in West Virginia along the nation's first statewide waterfall trail in the youngest national park, New River Gorge.
New River Trail State Park: Fosters Falls: 1,217 acres (4.93 km 2) 1987 Open Occoneechee State Park: Clarksville: 2,698 acres (10.92 km 2) 1968 Open Pocahontas State Park: Chesterfield: 7,919 acres (32.05 km 2) 1946 Open Powhatan State Park: Powhatan: 1,565 acres (6.33 km 2) 2003 Open Sailor's Creek Battlefield State Park: Rice
Much of the river's course through West Virginia is designated as the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, and the New River is one of the nation's American Heritage Rivers. In 1975, North Carolina designated a 26.5-mile (42.6 km) segment of the river as "New River State Scenic River", by including it in the state's Natural and Scenic ...