As the nation celebrates National Park Week, get to know New River Gorge National Park & Preserve, which became the nation's newest National Park in 2020.

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 ...

glen jean — Friends of the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve has a new leader. Deb Lamey, the Friends president, has announced that Roy Mark ‘Boog’ Ferrell Jr., will join the ...

Nature’s splendor moved indoors on Sunday. On April 6 at the Tamarack Marketplace Conference Center Ballroom in Beckley, the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve (NRGNPP), a unit of the ...

Photograph by Jesse Thornton, Alamy Stock Photo Flower petals on the forest floor at New River Gorge National Park and Preserve. While you’re in West Virginia, consider heading two hours west to ...

Uh-oh, this doesn’t look good. A kayaker is careening down the narrow winding river, letting the current pull her towards danger instead of paddling like mad away from it. “Stay hard right,” shouts ...

In early 2021, the New River Gorge, formerly a national river, became a national park and preserve, making this West Virginia park the newest in the United States. With 1.8 million visitors in 2024, ...

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many of which remain today and would be encompassed in the new U.S. National Park and Preserve.” Warnock, Scott and Bishop are among a bipartisan group of lawmakers working to establish the area ...