"Prato Rio"

Historical marker location:

11230 Leetown Rd, Kearneysville, West Virginia

( Marker is on Kearneysville-Virginia Line Road, ½ mile west of Leestown Pike, on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1970

The New River Gorge Bridge, located in Fayetteville, West Virginia, is the longest steel arch bridge in the Western Hemisphere. It was completed in 1977 and spans 3,030 feet across the New River Gorge.