Ted Fauster: Meet the top five monsters from the West Virginia hills
网页2022年1月13日 · 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.
Shady Spring, West Virginia - West Virginia Explorer
网页Shady 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. The community is chiefly residential and is renowned for its climate and access to outdoor recreation.
West Virginia Explorer - WV News and Travel Guide
网页Science-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.
Pedal-train excursion leads tourists into remote central W.Va.
网页2018年8月9日 · 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 ...
Summersville Lake State Park - West Virginia Explorer
网页6 天之前 · Boaters explore Pirate's Cove at Summersville Lake State Park. (Photo courtesy W.Va. Dept. of Commerce) A bill that will officially designate the land as a state park was sent to the West Virginia Legislature on August 6, 2023, Gov. Jim Justice has announced. Once the bill is passed and signed by the governor, new recreational opportunities at ...
Coal Mining Heritage in West Virginia - WV Explorer
网页From 1836 to 1840, Professor William Barton Rodgers, Virginia's most expert geologist, visited the West Virginia mines which had been opened at that time and made an analysis of the coals in Harrison, Monongalia, Taylor, Fayette, Mineral, Grant, Preston, and Kanawha counties. The total product for 1840 was nearly 300,000 tons, of which 200,000 ...
Woodrum Wildlife Management Area - West Virginia Explorer
网页Directions: The Woodrum Wildlife Management Area is located in southern Jackson County near Kentuck, approximately 15 miles south of Ripley, WV, and 15 miles northeast of Sissonville, WV (in Kanawha County). To reach the management area from the I-77 expressway at Kenna, WV, follow Kentuck Road (CR-9) approximately five miles to a right turn onto CR-19 at the management area sign.
Lost West Virginia saltworks are known to only a few adventurers
网页2024年8月14日 · 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. Advertisement. Accessible by a rough trail, it was once among the most important landmarks in the valley upstream of the New River Gorge.
Eastern Panhandle - West Virginia Explorer
网页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.
Bigfoot sightings cluster in New River Gorge region in West Virginia
网页2022年7月1日 · BECKLEY, W.Va. — While recent bigfoot sightings in southern West Virginia have gained national attention, one investigator says it's no surprise, given the number of sightings he's cataloged in the southern mountains. Red pins mark the locations at which bigfoot encounters have been reported to Les …