New River Gorge bridge

After Clifftop, we drove to a pizza place in Fayetteville. We drove up and down the mountains, through the forest, and all of a sudden came out onto a long bridge over a VERY high gorge. I had no idea that there was a landscape like this in West Virginia!










We learned that the bridge is the largest single arch bridge in the world. Wikipedia says that it is the highest vehicular bridge in the Americas, at 876 feet above the New River. And, it is made of corten steel-- the weathering steel that designers (and Richard Serra) love. Every October they hold "Bridge Day" here-- you can imagine all the scary things involved...