On December 27, 2020, the river became the New River Gorge national park and preserve, the United States' newest national park. The New River Gorge National Park and Preserve is a unit of the United States National Park Service designed to protect and maintain the New River Gorge in southern West Virginia in the Appalachian Mountains. It protects and preserves 53 miles of the New River as well as over 70,000 acres of the magnificent gorge that this river created.
https://www.nps.gov/neri/index.htm
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