New River Gorge Bridge
steel arch bridge over New River Gorge near Fayetteville, West Virginia, USA
Facts
18 propertiesDesignation
- Instance of
- deck arch bridge, road bridge[4]
- Heritage designation
- National Register of Historic Places listed place[12]
Location
- Country
- United States[3]
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 38.069°, -81.082°[10]
- Located in the administrative territorial entity
- Fayetteville[2]
More facts +11
- Carries thoroughfare
- U.S. Route 19[16]
- Clearance
- +267[19]
- Crosses
- New River, New River Subdivision[6][7]
- Date of official opening
- October 22, 1977[13]
- Length
- +924[15]
- Located in protected area
- New River Gorge National Park and Preserve[20]
- Longest span
- +518[18]
- Maintained by
- West Virginia Department of Transportation[5]
- Native label
- New River Gorge Bridge[14]
- Next crossing upstream
- Tunney Hunsaker Bridge[17]
- Number of spans
- +1[11]
🏷️ Also known as
en New River Gorge Bridge
ar جسر نيو رفر جورج
es Puente del Barranco del Rio Nuevo
es puente del Barranco del Río Nuevo
fa پل نیو ریور گرج
he גשר קניון ניו ריבר
ja ニュー川渓谷橋
ru Нью-Ривер-Гордж
zh 新河峽大橋
zh 新河谷桥
zh 纽河峡谷桥
🔖 Identifiers · 24
- VIAF cluster ID
- 315530972
- Library of Congress Authorities ID
- sh2006006850
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- New River Gorge Bridge.jpg ↗
- Atlas Obscura place ID
- new-river-gorge-bridge, bridge-walk
- BabelNet ID
- 00057495n
- BridgeReports.com ID
- 1612159
- Bridgehunter.com ID
- 35084
- Brueckenweb ID
- 623
- E-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia ID
- 1639
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- topic/New-River-Gorge-Bridge
- Freebase ID
- /m/01kr2z
- GNIS Feature ID
- 1556157
Show all 24 identifiers +12
- GeoNames ID
- 4816547
- Interlingual Index ID
- i56581
- J9U entity ID
- 987007535101205171
- LoC HABS/HAER/HALS place ID
- wv0297
- NRHP reference number
- 13000603
- National Bridge Inventory Number
- WV00000000010A214
- National Park Service place ID
- new-river-gorge-bridge
- Natural Atlas ID
- 1791448
- OpenStreetMap way ID
- 368191957
- Structurae structure ID
- 20000269
- Topic's main category
- Category:New River Gorge Bridge
- WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
- 03827555-n
📚 Sources · 1
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Elevation above sea levelP2044
256 m
2026-09-26
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- GeoNames
- Edition
- 20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Credit
- CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
- Bronze
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Country 1
Crosses 1
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Located in protected area 1
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
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Summary
New River Gorge Bridge is a deck arch bridge[1].