Bieri supervises operations at Canyon Rim Visitor Center, the busiest visitor center at New River Gorge National Park and Preserve. It was a national river until the redesignation in December 2020.

To get a quick sense of life along the Buffalo in former times, the place to begin is the National Park Service's Tyler Bend Visitor Center, near the river's south bank in Searcy County.

The national park was declared a "Leave No Trace Gold Standard Site" by the Colorado-based Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics.

The National Park Service is working service-wide with federal, state, and local authorities to closely monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and will lift the closure as soon as possible.

Buffalo National River closing to visitors because of COVID-19 concerns BUFFALO RIVER Updated: 9:35 AM CDT Apr 2, 2020 Editorial Standards ⓘ ...

Buffalo Point Campground is closed today, May 2 nd, but it is anticipated that it will be back in service the morning of Wednesday, May 3rd. For an updated on the campground please call (870) 449 ...

Buffalo National River saw its highest visitorship total for a year in 2024, with more than 1.6 million visiting the park. The park has had more than a million visitors for 19 consecutive years.

The Buffalo National River already sees high numbers of visitors. According to a report from the National Park Service, more than 1.3 million people visited the river in 2022.

Still, the 2022 visitation number at New River Gorge is a 33% increase over the pre-pandemic number of visitors in 2019. (The Buffalo National River had a 1.5% decrease over the same time period.) ...

TYLER BEND -- The vast majority of the 800,000 or more visitors expected this year along the Buffalo National River are here for the pleasures of the present -- swimming, canoeing, kayaking ...