West Virginia Explorer - WV News and Travel Guide
WEBNews of West Virginia (WV) and its cultural and natural resources. Bookmark to follow along with West Virginia news that includes arts, travel, recreation.
Eastern Panhandle - West Virginia Explorer
WEBThe 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.
Trout Stocking Rivers & Streams - West Virginia Explorer
WEBTrout Stocking Rivers & Streams Falls on Camp Creek, one of more than 200 rivers and streams in West Virginia stocked with trout. Photo Rick Burgess.
Tygart Valley River - West Virginia Explorer
WEBThe Tygart Valley River is impounded at Tygart Lake at Tygart Lake State Park, near Grafton, West Virginia. A falls on the river approximately nine miles upstream of its mouth is the centerpiece of Valley Falls State Park. The upper river above Elkins, WV, flanks the Monongahela National Forest. The Valley Bend Wildlife Management Area and ...
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.
Woodrum Wildlife Management Area - West Virginia Explorer
WEBThe 1,696-acre Woodrum Wildlife Management Area (WMA) ranges across a region of farms and hilly forests of oak, pine, and hickory in western West Virginia.
Lost West Virginia saltworks are known to only a few adventurers
WEBAug 14, 2024 · MERCER SALT WORKS, W.Va. — The legend of the lost Mercer Saltworks near the New River in West Virginia may be remembered now by only a few locals and adventurers, and its ruins may be known to even fewer. Accessible by a rough trail, it was once among the most important landmarks in the valley upstream of the New River Gorge.
Shady Spring, West Virginia - WV Explorer
WEBShady Spring, WV (West Virginia), is an unincorporated community in Raleigh County named for a spring that bubbled beneath the shade of a large tree there. It is also sometimes designated "Shady Springs." Its population in 2010 was 2,998.
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.
Islands in the Ohio River in West Virginia are a Noah's Ark for ...
WEBJul 31, 2024 · WILLIAMSTOWN, W.Va. — Hidden in plain sight, the islands in the Ohio River in West Virginia are a Noah's Ark for wildlife that has managed to escape development elsewhere. As the Ohio River became cleaner in the 1980s, thanks to legislation like the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act, wildlife started to return, leading to an ...