According to a press release, 1,811,937 visitors went to the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve (NRGNPP) in 2024, ...

This national park site includes 53 miles of the New River, a federally recognized Wild and Scenic River, as well as the deep gorge that surrounds it. Visitors come to the park to explore historic ...

FAYETTE COUNTY, W.Va. (WCHS) — A record number of people visited the New River Gorge National Park & Preserve in 2024, an annual report said. More than 1.8 million people visited the New River ...

New River Gorge National Park and Preserve saw record visitation in 2024 A recent World Atlas article ranked New River Gorge National Park and Preserve as one of the top seven rattlesnake-infested ...

Forty years later, the Nuttall family sold the property to the National Park Service; the long project of restoring the site was completed in 2011. Miners have long since deserted New River Gorge, but ...

The state that inspired John Denver's now-classic American anthem, does, in fact, feel a bit like Heaven (or at least what we imagine it to be). Yet it isn't a destination at top of many bucket ...

Some places have also become secondary old growth forests, meaning the forests were cut down at some point but have grown back with many of the characteristics of an old growth.

A record 1.8 million people visited the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve in 2024. That number topped by 6.3% the previous visitation record, set in 2023, according to recently released ...