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Exploring West Virginia’s New River Gorge National Park, the nation’s newest park – and also one of the oldest Susan Glaser, cleveland.com © Susan Glaser/The Plain Dealer Remnants of the old company store at Nuttallburg, part of the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve in West Virginia. FAYETTEVILLE, West Virginia The New River is an ironic name for a place so steeped in history, both natural and manmade. America’s newest national park isn’t new at all – in fact, it’s one of the oldest places on earth. “The boulders on the sides of the river are more 300 million years old,” said rafting guide Scott Emery, as we plunged into a wall of whitewater on the New River in mid-April. “They’re four times older than the Grand Canyon.”

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