New River Gorge
New River Gorge National Park and Preserve is in West Virginia, USA. As of 2021, it is America's newest national park.Photo: NKS22, Public domain.
- Type: Park
- Description: unit of the United States National Park System in West Virginia
- Also known as: “NERI” and “New River Gorge National Park and Preserve”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Prince station and Prince Brothers General Store.
Prince station
Railway station
Photo: jpmueller99, CC BY 2.0.
Prince station is an active intercity railroad station in the Prince section of unincorporated Fayette County, West Virginia. Located on State Route 41 in the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, Prince station serves trains of Amtrak's Cardinal, a service between Chicago Union Station and New York Penn Station three days a week.
Prince Brothers General Store
Building
Photo: Coal town guy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Prince Brothers General Store, also known as the Berry Store or simply Prince Store, is a historic general store located at Prince, Fayette County, West Virginia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Prince and Terry.
Prince
Hamlet
Prince is a census-designated place in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 115. Located at an altitude of 1,263 feet, it is served by an Amtrak station.
Terry
Hamlet
Terry is an unincorporated community in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States. Terry is located on the New River, 4 miles southeast of Mount Hope. The community was named for the son of a mining official.
McKendree
Hamlet
McKendree is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States.
New River Gorge
- Categories: protected area and recreation area
- Location: Fayette, New River and Greenbrier Valleys, West Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.8757° or 37° 52′ 32″ northLongitude
-81.0776° or 81° 4′ 39″ westElevation
2,431 feet (741 metres)Open location code
869WVWGC+7XOpenStreetMap ID
node 356538419OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=park
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Norwegian Nynorsk—“New River Gorge” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “متنزه ومحمية مضيق النهر الجديد الوطنية”
- Arabic: “منتزه ومحمية مضيق النهر الجديد الوطنية”
- Balinese: “Taman Nasional miwah Cagar Palemahan New River Gorge”
- Balinese: “Taman Nasional miwah Cagar Palemahan Ngarai Tukad Anyar”
- Cebuano: “New River Gorge National River”
- Chinese: “新河峡谷国家公园”
- Chinese: “新河峡谷国家公园和保护区”
- Chinese: “纽河峡谷国家公园和保护区”
- Dutch: “New River Gorge National Park and Preserve”
- Estonian: “New River Gorge’i rahvuspark”
- French: “parc national et réserve de New River Gorge”
- French: “Parc national et réserve de New River Gorge”
- German: “New River Gorge National Park and Preserve”
- Hebrew: “הפארק הלאומי קניון ניו ריבר”
- Hebrew: “הפארק והשמורה הלאומיים קניון ניו ריוור”
- Italian: “Parco nazionale e riserva della gola del New River”
- Macedonian: “Национален парк Клисура на Њу Ривер”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “New River Gorge nasjonalpark”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “New River Gorge nasjonalpark”
- Norwegian: “New River Gorge nasjonalpark”
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