This ancient river begins in the mountains of North Carolina near the Tennessee state line, flows generally northeastward across the Blue Ridge Mountains, Great Appalachian Valley, Ridge and Valley Province, and the Allegheny Front in western North Carolina and Virginia, before turning and following a more northwestward course into West Virginia, where it then cuts through the Appalachian Plateau (in the New River Gorge) to meet the Gauley River and become the Kanawha River in south - central West Virginia. The Kanawha then flows into the Ohio River at Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Much of the river 's course is lined with steep cliffs and rock outcrops, particularly in its gorge in West Virginia.
where does the new river start and finish
begins in the mountains of North Carolina near the Tennessee state line become the Kanawha River in south - central West Virginia