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file photo by Steve Keenan/The Fayette Tribune The New River Gorge National River is among the units of the National Park Service. editor s pick featured
By J. Damon Cain The Register-Herald Dec 21, 2020
Dec 21, 2020
file photo by Steve Keenan/The Fayette Tribune The New River Gorge National River is among the units of the National Park Service.
Described as the âgold standardâ for tourism, a National Park designation has been stamped on the New River Gorge via year-end appropriations legislation that passed Congress on Monday night.
The renaming, courtesy of a congressional omnibus package passed late Monday night, creates the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve in Raleigh and Fayette counties, becoming the 63rd National Park and the 20th National Preserve in the United States.
Nation s newest national park just a 4.5 hour drive from Cincinnati Share Updated: 10:46 AM EST Dec 22, 2020 WLWT Digital Staff Photo via National Parks Service SOURCE: Photo via National Parks Service
TRACKING THE COVID-19 VACCINE Share Updated: 10:46 AM EST Dec 22, 2020 WLWT Digital Staff WLWT Digital Staff The nation s 63rd national park is just a 4.5 hour drive from Cincinnati. Included in the year-end spending package hammered out by Congress Monday was legislation that would redesignate the New River Gorge National River as the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve. Located in southern West Virginia, the area is now slated to become the nation s 63rd National Park and the 20th National Preserve. A rugged, whitewater river flowing northward through deep canyons, the New River is among the oldest rivers on the continent. The park encompasses over 70,000 acres of land along the