#56: Three Perfect Days in New River Gorge National Park

Dear Bob and Sue: A National Parks Podcast

Matt and Karen Smith

Society & Culture, Nature, Personal Journals, Places & Travel, Science

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🗓️ 4 November 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Are you thinking about visiting our nation’s 63rd national park, nestled in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia? Then you’re in luck. In this episode, we talk about our recent visit to New River Gorge National Park and Preserve with our dear friends Bob and Sue. And we’ve arranged it into a three-day itinerary to give you a starting point for planning your visit. You can find links to many of the places and activities we discuss in this episode on our blog post about New River Gorge National Park – click here. Please subscribe to The Dear Bob and Sue Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you like to listen, and if you’ve enjoyed our show, please leave us a review or rating on Apple Podcasts. Five-star ratings help other listeners find our show. Follow us on Instagram at @mattandkarensmith, on Twitter at @mattandkaren, on Facebook at dearbobands, or check out our blog at www.mattandkaren.com. To advertise on The Dear Bob and Sue Podcast, email us at mattandkarensmith@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	It's a 3,000 foot long bridge that spans the scourge. It's 876 feet above the river.
0:38.3	And we were going to walk across it underneath the bridge on a catwalk.
0:43.8	Which is only 851 feet above the river. They let you do that. But you have to be supervised.
0:50.4	They outfit you. You step into this harness. I think they called it a diaper.
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1:12.4	This is the Dear Bob and Sue Podcast. Stories from our travels to all the US
1:16.8	national parks and other public lands. I'm Matt Smith.
1:20.1	And I'm Karen Smith. We are the authors of the Dear Bob and Sue series of books.
1:25.0	On today's episode, we're describing our version of three perfect days in our country's newest
1:31.1	national park, New River Gorge. In West Virginia, New River Gorge offers a wide variety of outdoor
1:38.4	activities and we'll be talking about those today, as well as some of our favorite places to eat
1:43.5	and shop in the surrounding area. And we'll also share a few lodging options.
1:48.5	Hopefully all this information will help you plan your trip to national park number 63.
1:54.5	In a place the locals call almost heaven. Oh, you stole that from John Denver.
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