Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: fayette station

Same bridge, different view. This is where you get after you take the twisty road down the side of the gorge. The original bridge at Fayette Station, West Virginia, was built in 1889. It was closed in 1977 when the high bridge overhead opened, then refurbished and reopened in 1998. Several of my friends are rafting the New River this week; only last week did they realize that when I said "We're vacationing in West Virginia" I was going to the same place they were going for rafting. This is where their trip will end. Photo taken July 21, 2004. Camera: Nikon N90s

A view from one of the overlooks the National Park's constructed near West Virginia's New River Bridge. The rafts on the river are about to land, as the lower New River raft trips generally end at the bridge(s). While they don't show well, there are CSX lines on both sides of the river at this point. The haze is normal. That's the Fayette Station Bridge. The old road across the gorge begins (speaking loosely) near where I took the picture, jackknifes down the gorge literally beneath the viewing station, crosses the river, and makes a similar trip up the other side. Much of this trip is now restricted to one-way traffic, but until 1977 this skinny road carried vehicles in both directions across the gorge.