$37 million (equivalent to $145 million in 2023 dollars)
Opened
October 22, 1977
Statistics
Daily traffic
16,200 vehicles/day[1]
New River Gorge Bridge
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
NRHP reference No.
13000603[2]
Added to NRHP
August 14, 2013[3]
Location
The New River Gorge Bridge is a steel arch bridge 3,030 feet (924 m) long over the New River Gorge near Fayetteville, West Virginia, in the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States. With an arch 1,700 feet (518 m) long, the New River Gorge Bridge was the world's longest single-span arch bridge for 26 years;[4][5] it is now the fifth longest; the longest outside of China. Part of U.S. Route 19, its construction marked the completion of Corridor L of the Appalachian Development Highway System. An average of 16,200 motor vehicles cross the bridge each day.[1]
The roadway of the New River Gorge Bridge is 876 feet (267 m) above the New River,[5] making the bridge one of the highest vehicular bridges in the world; it is the third highest in the United States. When completed in 1977, it was the world's highest bridge carrying a regular roadway, a title it held until the 2001 opening of the Liuguanghe Bridge in China. Because of its height, the bridge has attracted daredevils since its construction. It is now the centerpiece of the annual "Bridge Day", during which hundreds of people, with appropriate equipment, are permitted to climb on or jump from the bridge. In 2005, the structure gained additional attention when the U.S. Mint issued the West Virginia state quarter with the bridge depicted on one side. In 2013, the bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
^ ab"2006 Fayette County Traffic Counts" (PDF). West Virginia Division of Highways. 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 5, 2009. Retrieved November 24, 2008.
^"National Register Information System – (#13000603)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
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^Carter Jr., George R. (April–May 2006). "Mind the Gap: Building the World's Longest Steel-Arch Bridge". American Heritage. Archived from the original on May 27, 2010. Retrieved August 7, 2020.
^ abGreen, Diana Kyle (October 2011). "Fayette County High". Wonderful West Virginia. 75: 4–7.
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