Wednesday, March 17, 2021
This morning we left our cabin around 9 and drove over to
New River Gorge National Park, the newest (63rd) national park. The drive was a little convoluted as my phone
map took us to a random point that added a lot of time, a lot of winding, scary
driving time, to our drive but we finally got to the main visitor center at
1:30pm. And wow, this was a great
national park. The bridge, the main
feature, is the third highest bridge in the united states and was built in
1977. We pulled into the visitor center,
which was supposed to be completely closed and it was actually open to get maps
and passbook stamps, which was a nice surprise.
We ate a late lunch at a picnic table, literally in the parking lot of
the visitor center, then we got our passbooks stamped and walked on the nice
boardwalk down to the lookout of the bridge – it was beautiful.
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| National Park #47!! - note the sign has a cloth covering with the new name. |
It was around a 2 mile, relatively flat trail, and it took us out to the edge of the river. The views were beautiful. This national park is pretty spectacular. It was quite the detour but totally worth it. That was our 47th national park
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| View from the trail of the river |
Nick drove us home and we got back to the cabin at 7:15. We are up our leftovers (grilled cheese, bacon, PB&J, etc., then Grant beat me at chess again and we sat in the hot tub for a while. Then showers and laundry. It’s 10pm now and we’re sitting in the living room watching Liv & Maddie on Netflix.
We won’t be up much longer as we have a long day ahead of us
tomorrow.
This trip really has been incredibly fun and everyone has
gotten along well
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