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There's a very nice write-up in today's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, lauding the varied activities to be found in and around the New River Gorge Bridge.
NEW RIVER GORGE, W.Va. -- Teenagers can be hard to entertain, especially when the event is a no-texting, try-to-keep-the-iPod-to-a-minimum-so-we-can-actually-have-a-conversation family vacation.
If the kids don't have fun after being loaded into the car with the suitcases, well, let's just say it's going to be a long and quiet ride back home.
Thank goodness, then, that there are so many recreational activities to choose from in this rugged, scenic corner of West Virginia. They include a world-class canopy tour that has you zipping and soaring through the treetops via a network of platforms and rope bridges, 120 feet above Mill Creek canyon, at speeds reaching 30 mph.