What do you look for when you're planning a trip to a West Virginia small town? Is it a tight-knit sense of community? Authentic home-cooked meals in tucked-away restaurants? Access to the great ...

MARLINTON, W.Va. — West Virginia’s largest state park now has another designation, West Virginia’s darkest park. However, Superintendent Jody Spencer has no problem with the new designation. Watoga ...

We started the summer by taking a trip to the "Quiet Zone." After a month of shift work, elusive toddler fevers, and canine diarrhea, my husband rented a cabin in Watoga State Park, West Virginia, for ...

CHARLESTON — Watoga State Park has become the first site in West Virginia to be designated a Dark Sky Park by the International Dark Sky Association, providing new opportunities for astronomy tourism ...

The largest of West Virginia’s state parks, at 10,100 acres, Watoga is also among the oldest, dating back to the first land acquisitions by the West Virginia Game and Fish Commission in the 1920s. The ...

To Watoga State Park being named as a Dark Sky Park by the International Dark Sky Association. It’s the first site in West Virginia to get the designation, which comes with opportunities for astronomy ...

Nestled in rural Pocohontas County Watoga State Park in not only the largest state park in West Virginia, but also the oldest. Constucted in 1934, the park was a direct result of Franklin Roosevelt's ...