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West Virginia's New River Gorge Is The Country's Newest National Park
Resume![View from the North Overlook at the Grandview area of New River Gorge. (Courtesy)](https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Horseshoe-Bend_Grandview.jpg)
New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, in West Virginia, is the country's newest national park. The designation was included in the $2.3 trillion coronavirus relief and spending bill passed in December.
Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd talks to Lizzie Watts, superintendent of the New River Gorge National Park, about what makes the area remarkable.
![The largest waterfall on the entire New River is Sandstone Falls. (Gary Hartley)](https://media.wbur.org/wp/2021/02/9559326A-7566-429E-8F1D-7420E9CB7156-1000x706.png)
![Superintendent Lizzie Watts stands in front of the new sign at park headquarters. (Courtesy)](https://media.wbur.org/wp/2021/02/NPPSign-1000x750.jpg)
![The New River Gorge Bridge is 876 feet above the New River on the Lower Gorge. (Courtesy)](https://media.wbur.org/wp/2021/02/LowerGorge-1000x750.jpg)
This segment aired on February 22, 2021.