Explore New River Gorge: America’s newest national park for National Park Week 2025

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As the National Park Service continues its annual week to draw attention to its properties around the country to encourage tourism, the process is a bit different this year, as it comes at a time when the Department of Government Efficiency has reduced budgets. The Washington Examiner is taking a closer look at those effects and how you can celebrate at a park near you in the coming days and weeks. In part five of our series, “National Park Week: The state of America’s outdoors,” we examine a park you may not have heard of.

New River Gorge National Park & Preserve became the nation’s newest National Park in 2020, but many Americans may not be familiar with it.

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