West Virginia Explorer - WV News and Travel Guide
New trail connects off-road trail system with Chief Logan park lodge. David Sibray -September 4, 2024. LOGAN, W.Va. — A new 4.6-mile trail connecting Chief Logan State Park and the Hatfield-McCoy Trails system has opened in southern West Virginia.
Pedal-train excursion leads tourists into remote central W.Va.
Aug 9, 2018 · A new pedal-train excursion that leads tourists along a glittering trout stream and deep into the mountains of central West Virginia has attracted more than 1,200 guests from 20 states in the last 30 days, according to spokesmen for the venue. "Most of what we're seeing so far is from word-of-mouth or from Facebook," conductor Bruce Gill said ...
Bluestone State Park - West Virginia Explorer
Bluestone Wildlife Management Area. Bluestone State Park. HC 78 Box 3. Hinton, WV 25951. BSP Website. Phone: (304) 466-2805.
Eastern Panhandle - West Virginia Explorer
Harpers Ferry from Maryland Heights. The Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia includes eight of the easternmost counties in West Virginia — Grant, Hardy, Morgan, Hampshire, Mineral, Berkeley, Jefferson, and Pendleton counties in eastern West Virginia. It spans a landscape of broad valleys drained by the Potomac River and its branches, including the Cacapon, and Shenandoah rivers.
Charleston, West Virginia - West Virginia Explorer
The statehouse dome rises along the Kanawha in Charleston, West Virginia.Photo courtesy Rick Burgess.. Charleston, West Virginia (WV), is the seat of Kanawha County and capital of West Virginia.Located along the Kanawha River at its junction with the Elk, Charleston was chartered in 1794 as "Charles Town" and named by town founder George Clendenin for …
Ghost Tours - West Virginia Explorer
Ghost tours may lead through W.Va. woodlands. Ghost tours and other dark tourism venues are popular throughout West Virginia where the hills and mountains seem practically imbued with the supernatural. Here entire communities, such as Harpers Ferry and Point Pleasant, have been numbered among the most haunted places in the world, partly as a result of battles fought there.
Welch, West Virginia - West Virginia Explorer
City of Welch, W.Va. Welch, West Virginia (WV), the county seat of McDowell County, was incorporated in 1894 and named for Isiah A. Welch, a captain in the Confederate Army. Situated on the Tug Fork River at the mouth of Elkhorn Creek, in the southernmost West Virginia coalfields, the city boomed in the early 1900s. The first memorial raised to the U.S. veterans of World War I is located at ...
Tug Fork River - West Virginia Explorer
Also known as the Tug Fork and Tug River, the Tug Fork River is a winding 159-mile tributary of the Big Sandy River that drains parts of the Cumberland Mountains and a small part of the Allegheny Mountains region in southern and southwestern West Virginia. The Tug Fork was a significant transportation route through one of the most rugged coal ...
Buffalo, West Virginia - West Virginia Explorer
Location. Buffalo is located approximately 10 miles north of the county seat at Winfield, West Virginia, 10 miles north of Eleanor, West Virginia, and 25 miles southwest of the mouth of the Kanawha River on the Ohio River at Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Manufacturing. Toyota Motor Manufacturing West Virginia is a Toyota Motor Corporation ...
Mud River - West Virginia Explorer
Homestead on Mud River. The 45-mile Mud River a tributary of the Guyandotte River, drains parts of western West Virginia (WV). The river rises in Boone County at Mud Gap and flows northwestward for 72 miles across Lincoln County into Cabell County to Barboursville, WV.. The Upper Mud River Wildlife Management Area is located along the Mud River upstream of Palermo, WV, where the river and its ...