After spending a night in a flea-bag motel, I continued on to the New River Bridge, in West Virginia (map link).
It is named after the New River Gorge, which it spans across.
With an arch 1,700 feet (518 m) long, the New River Gorge Bridge was for many years the world’s longest single-span arch bridge, and is the third highest bridge in the USA. It’s high enough for people to skydive (called BASE jumping) from it, and every year there is a Bridge Day Festival, when it is legal to do so. There is a nice visitor’s center with a new boardwalk down to several overlooks of the gorge and bridge.