New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, in West Virginia, is the country’s newest national park. The designation was included in the $2.3 trillion coronavirus relief and spending bill passed in December.
Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd talks to Lizzie Watts, superintendent of the New River Gorge National Park, about what makes the area remarkable.
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