New River Gorge Bridge
The New River Gorge Bridge is a steel arch bridge 3,030 feet long over the New River Gorge near Fayetteville, West Virginia, in the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: JaGa, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: James McCauley, CC BY 2.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Tunney Hunsaker Bridge and Fayette County Courthouse.
Tunney Hunsaker Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Chris Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Tunney Hunsaker Bridge is an historic truss bridge over the New River in New River Gorge, West Virginia. The bridge is named after Tunney Hunsaker, American boxer and former chief-of-police at Fayetteville, West Virginia. Tunney Hunsaker Bridge is situated 2,200 feet southeast of New River Gorge Bridge.
Fayette County Courthouse
Courthouse
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Fayette County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Fayetteville, Fayette County, West Virginia. It was built in 1894–1895, and is a 2 1/2 story, five bay wide, rectangular building with projecting wings. Fayette County Courthouse is situated 1½ miles southwest of New River Gorge Bridge.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fayette and Lansing.
Fayette
Hamlet
Fayette is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. Its elevation is 919 feet.
Lansing
Hamlet
Lansing is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. Lansing is located along U.S. Route 19, 2.5 miles northeast of Fayetteville. Lansing has a post office with ZIP code 25862.
Ames
Hamlet
Ames is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. It was also known as Elmo, a now defunct coal town. The last production of coal was reported in 1963.
New River Gorge Bridge
- Type: Bridge
- Description: steel arch bridge over New River Gorge near Fayetteville, West Virginia, USA
- Categories: deck arch bridge, road bridge, historic site, and transportation
- Location: Fayette, West Virginia, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.06874° or 38° 4′ 7″ northLongitude
-81.08294° or 81° 4′ 59″ westElevation
840 feet (256 metres)Open location code
86CW3W98+FROpenStreetMap ID
way 368191957OpenStreetMap feature
historic=yesOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=bridgeGeoNames ID
4816547Wikidata ID
Q1982908
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Spanish—“New River Gorge Bridge” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جسر نيو رفر جورج”
- Basque: “New River Gorge zubia”
- Catalan: “Pont New River Gorge”
- Chinese: “新河峽大橋”
- Chinese: “新河谷桥”
- Chinese: “纽河峡谷桥”
- Dutch: “New River Gorge Bridge”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كوبرى نيو ريفر جورج”
- French: “New River Gorge Bridge”
- German: “New River Gorge Bridge”
- Hebrew: “גשר קניון ניו ריבר”
- Italian: “New River Gorge Bridge”
- Japanese: “ニュー川渓谷橋”
- Macedonian: “Џорџ мост на Њу Ривер”
- Persian: “پل نیو ریور گرج”
- Polish: “New River Gorge Bridge”
- Russian: “Нью-Ривер-Гордж”
- Spanish: “Puente del Barranco del Rio Nuevo”
- Spanish: “puente del Barranco del Río Nuevo”
- Spanish: “Puente del Barranco del Río Nuevo”
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