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Hunting regulations in the newly established New River Gorge National Park & Preserve will remain unchanged for the autumn 2021 hunting season, despite the park’s federal redesignation last year. Though change may come hunting in America’s newest national park will remain as expressed at the park service website here at least until 2022, according to Eve … Read more

Summer operating hours at the newly dedicated New River Gorge National Park and Preserve will go into effect on June 12, and park officials are recommending visitors plan ahead as crowds are expected. Park superintendent Lizzie Watts said the park’s conversion from a “national river” to a “national park” has dramatically increased visitation, and visitors … Read more

Smoke and flame rising from the central region of America’s newest national park later this spring should not be cause for concern, park officials say. Fire managers with the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve in southern West Virginia plan to burn approximately 40 acres sometime between April 17 and May 31 in the … Read more

The New River Gorge in southern West Virginia is set to become a national park, U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) announced today. To be designated the “New River Gorge National Park and Preserve,” the present New River Gorge National River will become the 63rd national park in the U.S. as … Read more