New River Gorge Bridge in the northern New River Gorge Region The valley of the New River and the New River Gorge serve as the dual focus for this highland of farm, forest, and town. The region is one ...

The opportunity to plunder along the route, far from civil authority, was extremely attractive. River piracy was already commonplace on the lower Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and, from about 1790 to ...

FAIRMONT, W.Va. — Far from the city lights that shimmer about its mouth at the Golden Triangle at Pittsburgh, the Monongahela River rises more than 200 miles away in some of the most remote reaches in ...

CUNARD, W.Va. — Tales of a 'monster' said to haunt the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve in West Virginia have surfaced in recent years, and a lodging entrepreneur who's developed a ...

The following tale of a young girl's encounter with a supposed witch in the highlands along the Potomac River has inspired readers since it was penned by poet Emily Dale Werner and published in 1960.

A photographer snaps pictures of the underside of the New River Gorge Bridge.