This is a complete list of current bridges and other crossings of the Kanawha River, and its continuation the New River, from its mouth at the Ohio River to the split between the North and South Forks of the New River. Pedestrian-only bridges are marked in italics.
Image | Crossing | Location | Opened | Coordinates | Notes |
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Mason County | |||||
Bartow Jones Bridge | Henderson–Point Pleasant | 1999[1] | Replaced Shadle Bridge built in 1930[2] | ||
CSX Transportation Ohio River Subdivision | 1947[3] | Replaced earlier bridge opened in 1888 | |||
Putnam County | |||||
Johnathon David Higginbotham Memorial Bridge | Fraziers Bottom–Buffalo | 1998[4] | |||
Winfield Locks and Dam | Winfield–Eleanor | 1937[5] | |||
Ross Booth Memorial Bridge | 1955 | ||||
Nitro WWI Memorial Bridge | Teays Valley–Nitro | 2022 | Will eventually carry westbound lanes of I-64. Carries both directions while the Donald M. Legg Memorial Bridge is demolished and rebuilt.[6] | ||
Donald M. Legg Memorial Bridge | Teays Valley–Nitro | 1962 | Will be demolished and rebuilt; will eventually carry eastbound lanes of I-64.[7] | ||
Kanawha County | |||||
Richard J. "Dick" Henderson Memorial Bridge | St. Albans–Nitro | 2013[8] | Replaced earlier bridge of same name opened in 1934[9] [10] | ||
Dunbar Toll Bridge | South Charleston–Dunbar | 1953 | |||
1974,[11] 2010 | 2010 span is the longest concrete box girder span in the U.S. | ||||
Patrick Street Bridge | Charleston | 1930 | |||
CSX Kanawha Railroad Bridge | 1907[12] | ||||
Eugene A. Carter Memorial Bridge | 1975 | ||||
South Side Bridge | 1936 | Replaced earlier bridge opened in 1891[13] | |||
35th Street Bridge | 1975, 1976 | Replaced Kanawha City Bridge opened in 1914[14] | |||
Chuck Yeager Memorial Bridge | Charleston–Coal Fork | 1954, 1983 | |||
Fishing–Marmet Locks and Dam | Marmet–Dupont City | 1934[15] | |||
Admiral T. J. Lopez Bridge | Chelyan–Dickenson | 1997[16] | Replaced Chelyan Bridge opened in 1929[17] [18] | ||
London Locks and Dam | Handley–London | 1934[19] | |||
Fayette County | |||||
Earl M. Vickers Bridge | Montgomery | 1956[20] | Replaced Montgomery Bridge[21] | ||
Deep Water–Falls View | 1931[22] | ||||
Deepwater–Cotton Hill Bridge | Kanawha Falls | 1928 | Closed in 2018 due to structural damage with no plans to repair[23] [24] [25] | ||
Kanawha River becomes New River | |||||
CSX Gauley Subdivision | |||||
Beckwith–Chimney Corner | 1999 | ||||
Hawks Nest Dam | Hawks Nest | ||||
CSX New River Subdivision (#1 Main) | |||||
New River Gorge Bridge | Fayetteville–Lansing | 1977 | |||
Tunney Hunsaker Bridge | 1997 | ||||
CSX New River Subdivision (#2 Main[26]) | |||||
/ R.J. Corman Railroad West Virginia Line | Thurmond | 1916 | |||
Stone Cliff | 1928 | ||||
Raleigh County–Fayette County | |||||
Thomas Burford Pugh Memorial Bridge | Prince | 2015 | |||
CSX Piney Creek Subdivision | |||||
Raleigh County–Summers County | |||||
Mary Draper Ingles Bridge | Sandstone | 1982[27] | |||
Summers County | |||||
Hinton Bridge | Brooklin–Hinton | 1975 | |||
Veterans Memorial Bridge | Bellepoint | 2004 | |||
Bluestone Dam |
All locations are in Virginia unless otherwise specified
Image | Crossing | Location | Opened | Coordinates | Notes | |
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Giles County | ||||||
Glen Lyn | 1969, 1986[28] | |||||
Virginian Railway bridge (ruined) | ||||||
Narrows | 2013 | |||||
NS Whitethorne District | ||||||
Pearisburg | 1978, 2001 | |||||
NS railroad bridge | ||||||
Ripplemead | 1974 | |||||
Pembroke Bridge (disused) | Pembroke | |||||
1996 | ||||||
Eggleston | 1980 | |||||
Pulaski County–Montgomery County | ||||||
Radford Army Ammunition Plant bridge | 1943[29] | |||||
NS Christiansburg District | ||||||
Fairlawn–Centerville | 1990, 2013 | |||||
Pulaski County–Radford | ||||||
New River Bridge | Fairlawn–Radford | 2002, 2005[30] | ||||
NS Pulaski District | New River–Radford | |||||
Ingles Ferry Bridge | Radford | 1965 | ||||
Pulaski County | ||||||
Claytor Dam | ||||||
Lowmans Ferry Bridge | Mack Creek Village | |||||
New River Trail | Hiwassee | |||||
Wythe County | ||||||
Barren Springs | 2007[31] | |||||
Galena | 1997 | |||||
1978, 1980 | ||||||
Austinville | 1987 | |||||
New River Trail | ||||||
Carroll County | ||||||
Buck Dam Buck Dam Road | ||||||
Byllesby Dam | ||||||
Fries Junction Bridge | ||||||
Fries | 1959[32] | |||||
Fries Dam | ||||||
Grayson County | ||||||
2011[33] | ||||||
Baywood | 1979, 1999 | |||||
1989 | ||||||
Alleghany County, North Carolina | ||||||
Amelia, North Carolina | 2015[34] | |||||
Grayson County | ||||||
Bridle Creek Bridge | 1956 | |||||
Fields Dam | ||||||
J. Cam Fields Memorial Bridge | Mouth of Wilson | 1982 | ||||
Ashe County, North Carolina–Alleghany County, North Carolina | ||||||
New River splits into North Fork and South Fork |