Originally published on April 23, 2021 4:34 pm
Last year, West Virginia’s New River Gorge became the state’s first national park and the 63rd in the nation.
It’s just a one word change but those who fought for the new designation say it could make all the difference for the local tourism economy.
Two other national parks one of the youngest, and one of the oldest have lessons for the future of the New River Gorge.
Three years ago, the Indiana Dunes Lakeshore was in the exact same position as West Virginia’s New River Gorge. Congress had just approved a national park designation for its fifteen miles of ecologically diverse beaches along Lake Michigan.
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