New River Gorge Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Massive steel arch bridge over New River on US 19 east of Fayette
- Location
- Fayette County, West Virginia
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Opened on October 22, 1977
- Builders
- - American Bridge Co. of New York (Contractor)
- Michael Baker Corporation of Moon Township, Pennsylvania (Engineer)
- Design
- Steel deck arch
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 1,700.0 ft.
Total length: 3,030.0 ft. (0.6 mi.)
Deck width: 69.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.06886, -81.08217 (decimal degrees)
38°04'08" N, 81°04'56" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/492792/4213458 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Fayetteville
- Inventory number
- BH 35084 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection (as of 08/2011)
- Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 61.8 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2006)
- 16,200
Update Log
- March 3, 2013: Photo imported by Ben Tate
- September 10, 2012: Photo imported by Ben Tate
- January 15, 2012: New photo from Loyd Lowry
- July 19, 2011: Updated by Nathan Holth: Merged NBI and Added Builders
- May 26, 2010: New Street View added by Joshua Collins
- March 28, 2010: New photos from Tom Hall
- March 28, 2010: New photo from James Simmons
- April 1, 2009: New photo from Joshua Collins
- February 21, 2009: New photos from Bob Morgan
- April 18, 2006: Posted photos from James Adorno
Sources
- James Adorno
- Wikipedia
- Bob Morgan - morgans212 [at] nc [dot] rr [dot] com
- Joshua Collins - Bigjc1979 [at] aol [dot] com
- James Simmons - james [at] simmons [dot] net
- Tom Hall - thomas [dot] hall [at] ffni [dot] com
- Nathan Holth
- Loyd Lowry - loydplowry [at] yahoo [dot] com
Comments
I believe that this is the old bridge:
Does anybody have pictures of the old bridge?
Too bad the Chinese put up a bigger thru-arch... I think it is in Shanghai. The "Lupo Bridge" as I believe is the span's English translation, looks sweeping, but being in a huge city, it don't cut it in looks like the New River Gorge span!
This is an amazing thing to see. I've rode underneath it on a train, and rode in car across it. It's just amazing.
Hi guy, I live 10 minutes from the bridge there are quite a few campgrounds around the gorge. Most of the rafting outfits offer camping as well. As most national parks you simply need to see what restrictions are place on actually camping in the park itself. It is permitted and usually on a first come first serve bases in areas it is allowed. but you can always hike in and camp where you would like . Just watch, you don't want to be rolling off a rock face . Pack in and pack out . Leave West Virginia Wild and Wonderful.
Funny you'd say that the New River Gorge Bridge was awesome at night. I was on a business trip to West Virginia two years ago and the bridge was on my list of places to see. I was still looking for it when someone pointed out to me that I had already driven across it three times! At night, to me anyway, it just looked like a long, straight stretch of pavement.
If you ever decide to go back, it is part of the New River Gorge National Park. There is no camping in that particular park, but you're not that far away from lodging.
This is quite an awesome site from an 18 wheeler when you are least expecting it at night. Would love to go back over it in the daylight. It's been some time since I was there, but have been searching all over for it again. It was something at the time that we wanted to forget, but now would like to ride our motorcycles back to see it. We live in MO. Could you send us more info about it. Camping areas around there, historic sites, etc. Thanks.
This is quite an awesome site from an 18 wheeler when you are least expecting it at night. Would love to go back over it in the daylight. It's been some time since I was there, but have been searching all over for it again. It was something at the time that we wanted to forget, but now would like to ride our motorcycles back to see it. We live in MO. Could you send us more info about it. Camping areas around there, historic sites, etc. Thanks.
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