West Virginia Explorer - WV News and Travel Guide
WEBScience-fiction writer predicted remote-work growth in West Virginia. January 12, 2023. News of West Virginia (WV) and its cultural and natural resources. Bookmark to follow along with West Virginia news that includes arts, travel, recreation.
Train Tours / Railroads - West Virginia Explorer
WEB315 Railroad Avenue. Elkins, WV 26241. 304-636-9477. Mountain Rail Adventures offers a variety of scenic day and overnight excursions. Its trains leave from historic depots at Cass, Cheat, Durbin, and Elkins. Potomac Eagle. 149 Eagle Drive. Romney, WV …
Mountains and Mountain Ranges - West Virginia Explorer
WEBCertainly most of the state is mountainous, with the exception of a few broad river valleys, such as that of Ohio River, the lower Kanawha River, and South Branch of the Potomac River. West Virginia lies entirely within the Appalachian Mountains. Though many of its lesser mountains might be termed "hills," more mountain land exists per square ...
West Virginia Cities and Towns - West Virginia Explorer
WEBGrave Creek Valley at Cameron, W.Va. Our guide to more than 300 towns and cities in West Virginia includes listings for all of its largest cities as well as some of its most locally important towns and villages. Some small towns in rural areas might hardly seem worth notice to outsiders but are vitally important to local inhabitants. A. Handley.
Ted Fauster: Meet the top five monsters from the West Virginia hills
WEBJan 13, 2022 · No. 5: The Grafton Monster. The Grafton Monster may still wander lonely among the hills of lower Tygart Valley. (Illustration by Ted Fauster) Formerly a railroad boomtown, Grafton, West Virginia, today seems somewhat an anomaly -- a village of big-city architecture locked in a territory of small farms and dense woodlands.
Eastern Panhandle - West Virginia Explorer
WEBHarpers 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.
Pedal-train excursion leads tourists into remote central W.Va.
WEBAug 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 ...
Welch, West Virginia - West Virginia Explorer
WEBCity 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 ...
Elk River - West Virginia Explorer
WEBRedbud blossoms along the upper Elk River in Webster County.Photo courtesy Rick Burgess.. The Elk River, a 172-mile tributary of the Kanawha River, drains about 1,550 square miles in central West Virginia (WV) and in the western Allegheny Mountains. The river rises in western Pocahontas County and flows northward across the southern corner of Randolph County, near Snowshoe Mountain, the high ...
WV, W.Va.: which abbreviation for West Virginia is correct?
WEBMay 11, 2014 · According to official guides to American English, "W.Va." is still the preferred punctuation. This is because it leaves little room for misunderstanding. The abbreviation WV is also the accepted abbreviation for scores of other two-word combinations that being with the letters W and V, including weight variant, Wabash Valley, West Vancouver ...
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