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A Tourist Guide to West Virginia

1. Introduction

West Virginia, endlessly covered with forests and is known as the "Mountain State," liver offers the sights, scenery associated with natural resources, and all year round, outdoor activities.

After the rich coal and wood, was shaped by mine railroads and logging that is extracted them, but when the decade began to spend removal of these commodities, they are rolling, green hills-carpet-side product generated secondary, hiking, biking, fishing, rafting, climbing, and hunting for tourists and sports fans together Its New River Gorge. which offers many similar activities, equally beautiful with rough banks and blue surface, while the principle city of Charleston, revitalized during the 1970s and 1980s, now features a museum, art, shopping centers, restaurants, and places of the world-class performance.

2. Charleston

Located in the Kanawha River, and sports road network system easily negotiated, it was divided into the Complex Capitol and the downtown area with the East End Historic District, connecting the two.

From the first, which is the heart of state government, which is ubiquitously visible striking, gold-domed Capitol building itself. Made from a fan of Indiana limestone and 4640 tons of steel, which itself required while laying a railroad spur to transport them, building had been placed in three stages during the eight-year period: 1924-1925 for the west wing, 1926-1927 for the east wing, and 1930-1932 to connect the rotunda. This officially dedicated by Governor William G. Conley on June 20, 1932, on the occasion of 69th anniversary of West Virginia as a state.

its golden dome, which stretches five meters higher than the Capitol in Washington, is the gold in the 23 ½-karat gold leaf, applied between 1988 and 1991 as a small box to cover the surface of copper and lead otherwise.

Two-thirds of the interior, which covers 535 000 square meters is divided into 333 rooms, consisting of Italian travertine, derby empire, and Tennessee marble, and chandeliers in the rotunda, the middle part, made of 10 180 pieces of Czechoslovakian crystal illuminated by a lamp 96. Weighing 4000 pounds, it's up 54 feet of brass and bronze chain.

Across from State Capitol, but still within the complex, is the West Virginia Cultural Center. Opened in 1976 and operated by the West Virginia Division of Culture and History, It was created to display the state of the art, culture and heritage, and the houses in the West Virginia State Museum, archives and historical library, gift shop, and a place for activities culture, shows, and related programs.

The first, a collection of items that is state land, people and culture, is divided into 24 scenes that included five significant periods: Prehistory (3 million years BC to 1650 AD), Frontier (1754-1860), Civil War and the State 35 (1861-1899), Industrialization (1900-1945), and Change and Tradition (1954 into the 21st century). The 24 representations of themselves to track the evolution of the state and covers the period such as "Coal Forest," "River Plains," "Wilderness," "The Fort," "Harper's Ferry," "Building the Rails," "Coal Mine," "Main Street, West Virginia, "And" New River Park. "

Thirteen monuments, memorials, and the statue honoring West Virginia for their contributions to the state and nation grace Complex Beautiful Capitol reasons.

Culture also can be experienced at the Clay Center for Arts and Sciences, modern, 240 000 square foot, three-level complex that opened on July 12 2003 and is one of the most ambitious economic, cultural, and educational projects in the history of West Virginia Offering science., Visual arts and performing arts under one roof, central dual-level home Avampato Discovery Museum, an interactive, youth-oriented experience with parts such as Health Royale, KidSpace, Earth City, and Gizmo An Art Factory Gallery 9000 square meters. located on the second floor, features both temporary and permanent exhibitions, which both emphasize the art of the 19th century and the 20th with a name like Andy Warhol, Stuart Davis, Alexander Calder, Frank Stella, Vida Frey, and Albert Paley. ElectricSky Theatre, 61-foot planetarium dome, offers daily astronomy and presentations showing the wide screen. Live performances held in two locations: the 1883 seat Maier Foundation Performance Hall, which is home to the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, but in addition offers a variety of performance, from comedy to popular singers, bands, vocabulary, and Broadway plays, and the 200-seat Walker Theater, featuring drama and dance with cabaret-style seating for the program Woody Hawley singer-songwriter. The Douglas V. Reynolds interlude Café and three classrooms are located on the lower level.

Shopping can be done in two main places. The Charleston Town Center Mall, located adjacent to the City Center Marriott and Embassy Suites Hotel, and near the Civic Center, is one million square foot, tri-level complex with more than 130 shops, three anchor department stores, six full-service restaurant, and a food center with ten additional fast food places, and are accessed via three convenient parking garage Sporting the third floor atrium and fountain, the upper class, Kanawha Valley. complex of the city's largest shopping center east of the Mississippi River when it opened in 1983.

Capitol Market, located at the Capitol and Sixth Street in the restored and converted, 1800 Kanawha and Michigan Railroad depot, is divided into two markets inside and outside, the latter which can only used by bona fide farmers and receive every day, fresh, seasonal shipments, usually consists of flowers, shrubs, and trees in spring, fruits and vegetables in summer; squash, pumpkins, and corn in the fall and Christmas trees, wreaths, and bouquets in the winter. indoor market selling seafood, cheese and wine, and offer some food small stand and a full-service Italian restaurant.

One can spend the night at TriState Racetrack and Gaming Center. Located 15-minute drive from Charleston in Cross Lanes, where It offers 90 000 square feet of gaming entertainment, including more than 1,300 slot machines, live racing, poker room, blackjack, roulette, and dice, and four restaurants: French Quarter Restaurant and Bar, First Turn Restaurant, Cafe Orleans, and Crescent City. The adjacent, Mardi Gras-style hotel was completed in 2010.

3. Potomac Highlands

That's Potomac Highlands, located in the eastern states in the Allegheny Plateau, is a tapestry of diverse geographic regions and covers eight counties. Or appointed "Mountain Highlands, "It was formed about 250 million years ago when North American and African continental collision has resulted in mass, one lifted. Subjected to thousands of wind-and water caused erosion, it produces successive parallel valleys and mountains, and today the area includes two national forests: Canaan Valley, the highest in the east of the Mississippi River, and Spruce Knob, at 4861 feet, the highest point in West Virginia. Its green-covered mountains yielded abundant timber, logging railroad needed to take advantage of that, two The main ski resorts, and various sports and outdoor activities.

Potomac Highlands can be further subdivided into Tygart Valley, Seneca Rocks, Canaan Valley, and Big Mountain Countries.

A. Tygart Valley

City of Elkins, located in the Tygart Valley, is transportation, shopping and social center of the eastern Appalachians center and serves as a base for visiting the Potomac Highlands.

Founded in 1890 by Senator Henry Gassaway Davis and Stephen. B. Elkins, son-in-law and business partner, It originated as a shipping center for their coal, timber, and the royal train, the last of their own construction funded by the West Virginia Central Railroad, which runs between songs Cumberland, Maryland, and Elkins, and served as the threshold for some of the richest in the world's timber and mineral resources.

This city, which serves the needs of coal miners, loggers, and railroad workers, the central maintenance shop grow and continue to grow, peaking in 1920, before the start of decline due to depletion of resources power, until the last train, carrying coal and timber products throughout the country, leaving the station in 1959.

Trek lying barren and unused for nearly half century until the year 2007, when the newly founded Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad, they again raised the city-transportation-and the first tourists to beautiful goal-ups and growth cycles resparking Slow with a restaurant and theater has been built and lived in Elkins railyard historic and additional hotels nearby. Consistently ranked as one of the best cities in the country small art that, once again the service center of Plateau Mountain, back to its original purpose to give hotels, restaurants, shops, and entertainment services to tourists, but now a new group.

That train remained focused and The Durbin. Greenbrier Valley Railroad offers three departures from the station Elkins. The first is, "New Tygart Flyer," is four hours, 46 miles round-trip walk which plunges through the Cheat Mountain Tunnel, past the town of Bowdon and Bemis, parallel to the Shavers Fork Cheat River, and stopped at a horseshoe-shaped High Fall of Cheat, during which time enroute to serve a lunch buffet. Upgraded table service is available on-ear 1922 Pullman Palace luxury car at a price slightly higher.

That "Cheat Mountain Salamander" is, nine-hour 128-mile round-trip to Spruce, and include lunch and dinner buffet, while the "Mountain Dinner Express Train "to imitate the New Tygart Flyer's route, but features a four-course meal in the dining car was officially established.

Restaurant crossed the line Rail, flanked Elkins depot and the American Mountain Theater, providing all the food board. imitate the depot itself with brick exterior construction, restaurant 220 seats $ 2.5 million, rented to Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad, serving family-style cuisine on the main level and upper-class dinner on the second floor of the Vista Dome Dining Room, the menu inspired by a train ticket fire car from the 1920s to 1940s. This opens toted the slogan, "Take a song to the place with incredible taste."

The Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Rails Railroad and Trails Gift Shop is located on the main level.

Ongoing exterior, red brick historic, United adjacent Mountain Theater, founded in 2003 by original Elkins and RCA recording artist, Susie Heckel, traces its origins to the various events performed for tourists in different locations, but demand is increasing feasible November, 2006, ground-braking for structure of the 525 seats $ 1,700,000, 12 784 square feet, with the help of. his sister, Beverly Sexton, and her husband, Kenny, who has the Ozark Mountain Hoe-Down Theater in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.

Opened the following July, which offers family-oriented theater, Branson-style entertainment performed by the nine-member cast, with Kenny Sexton has served as president and producer and wrote Beverly score. Two hours of the night shows including comedy, impressions, and country, gospel, bluegrass, and pop music.

Davis and Elkins College, located just a few blocks from Historic railyard, share the same founder as the city itself-namely Elkins, Senator Henry Gassaway Davis and Stephen B. Elkins. Founded in 1901 when they donated land and funds to make college associated with the Presbyterian Church, originally located in the south of the city Its first Board of Trustees see you next year and the first class was held on 21 September 1904 ..

Today, it, coeducational liberal arts college, located in the hilly campus-170 hectares, wooded with views of the Appalachian Mountains, consisting of 22 new and historic buildings in two parts-the north, which stretches to the front of the campus and athletic fields, which situated on a ridge overlooking Elkins Three associates and bachelor of art, science, pre-professional. and professional degree programs offered to the base of 700 students.

One of the historic building is the Inn Graceland. Designed by the Baltimore architectural firm of Baldwin and Pennington, the castle-like Queen Anne-style house, originally located in a 360 hectare farm, completed in 1893 originally called "Mingo Moor," and occasionally ". Mingo Hall" after the southern region of Elkins, who served as a place of real summer residence Senator Davis, who regularly trains transported invited friends and colleagues during the months of July and August so they can avoid the heat of Washington and enjoys more Elkins High '-elevation, cold temperatures.

Real finally changed its name to "Graceland" after the daughter of Davis' youngest child, Grace. After the death of his wife in 1902, he continued to do business from an office inside, while Grace stayed there during the summer months with his family.

That's real end submitted to his own children, Ellen Bruce Lee and John A. Kennedy, the last two owners.

Acquired by the West Virginia Education Fund Presbyterian in 1941, this used as a male dormitory by the university until 1970, whereafter it is closed. Recovered during the mid-1990s, it was subsequently reopened as a historic inn and as a dynamic state laboratory for students studying hospitality.

Facing the Elkins city, at Davis and Elkins College campus, Graceland Inn, listed in the Register of Historic National Place, has a richly decorated two-story great room with hardwood, like oak four, briefly maple, cherry, and walnut, a large staircase, drawing room, library, and company The original stained glass windows Mingo Room Restaurant. reflect the initial allotment of big houses and open to the public, divided into four small rooms lined with oak trees and red and a fireplace an open porch, and eleven guest rooms, located on the second and third floors and named after a prominent family member, contains antiques, reproduction Victorian, towers, canopy beds, sleigh beds, cabinets, marble bathrooms and claw foot tubs.

Graceland Inn, David and Elkins College, Elkins city itself, the historic station and railyard, their impressions, and the Appalachian Mountains coal and timber resources of all closely related - past and future of the city.

B. Seneca Rocks

"Seneca Rocks" refers to both the Potomac Highlands region and the rock that is named after the region.

Resembling a razor back, or fin sharks, and located at the confluence of Seneca Creek and North Fork South Branch Potomac River, 250-foot-thick, 900-foot-high Seneca Rocks, West Virginia can be accessed by Route 28, formed 400 million years ago during the Silurian Period in a vast flock of sand at the edge of the ancient Iapetus Ocean. As sea decreased in size, the stone was lifted and folded, erosion wore away at last upper surface and leave the fold of a steep curve and the profile they showed today.

Made of white and gray Tuscarora quartzite formation, features both northern and peak south, with a notch that separates the two.

The Seneca Rocks Discovery Center now, which replaces the original visitors center, relief models feature the area, the film, interpretive programs, and bookstore.

that road will lead to the Homestead site, part of the center. built in 1839 by William sites as a single room log cabin below Seneca Rocks Ridge, it is typical of Appalachian home later when the German-square-log feature Blockbau style and v-notched corner joints spread apart by the chinks of stone and clay. casement small windows are equally derived from the German, while "space and space" plan that reflected the style of English Chimney floor location. indicated the location of housing: housing north-established internal style and southern style house sported from the outside.

In the late-1860s, one son Sites' homestead expanded, adding a second floor, and, after being used as a hay barn, Forest Service bought it in 1969, improved during the 1980s. In 1993, it has been added to the Register of Historic Places National.

That's Spruce Knob-Seneca larger Rocks National Recreation Area, offers a significant opportunity outside of sports, contains some of the key from the Chesapeake Bay watershed, the mountains and forests to collect water which then flows into the Potomac River and the bay itself act as a cleaning and filtering mechanisms, jungle river to a water purifying before reaching the river .. Spruce Knob is the second highest point in the Chesapeake watershed and the entire state of West Virginia.

In addition to facilitating water, the area has provided sustenance to humans, who first lived in Native American villages in the mountains, and then create agricultural settlements and logging camps, extracting resources and support livelihood for about 13,000 years. Today, it is home to 15 million people.

The Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area itself is part of the National Forest Monongahela much greater. Founded in early 1920 with 7200 acres, 910 155 hectares of forest contains upstream Monongahela, Potomac, Greenbrier, Elk, Tygart, and the Gauley River; five designated federal "Wildernesses"-Dolly Sods, Foreign Creek, Laurel Fork North, Laurel Fork South, and Cranberry-a very remote and primitive area offers only signs trail-a lower standard, and four lakes.

A Mecca for outdoor sports enthusiasts, features 169 national forest hiking, biking, and horseback riding trail that includes more than 800 miles, 576 miles of trout streams, 129 miles of warm water fish, 23 camping, 17 picnic areas, and view wildlife from black bear, wild turkey, white-tailed deer, gray fox, rabbit, snowshoe hare, grouse, and Woodcock.

C. Canaan Valley

Bigtooth blanketed with aspen, balsam fir, and spruce, Canaan Valley, stretching 14 miles, is like the highest valley east of the Mississippi River, which separates it from the mountain namesake Blackwater River and create a canyon, in the narrow plains Allegheny High.

It was pristinely beautiful area includes two state parks-Canaan Valley Resort and Black Water Falls State Park, two ski areas-again Canaan Valley Resort and Timberline Four Seasons Resort, and 500 state wildlife protection.

Nature sports abound: hiking, horseback riding, fishing, golf, swimming, rafting, walking and nature interpretation during the summer, and skiing, snowboarding, and tubing during the winter.

The core of most of these are 6000 hectares of Canaan Valley Resort State Park, which covers 18 miles from roads, wetlands, open grasslands, the northern hardwood forests, wildlife, 200 species of birds and 600 species of wildflowers.

Canaan Valley Resort, located in the park, offers 250 modern guest rooms, 23 two, three and four bedroom mountain cabin with fireplace and full kitchen, 34 paved, wooded campsite with full hook ups, and six lounges and restaurants, including the Hickory Dining Room in the main cabin.

Its 4280 foot mountain, the longest run is 1.25 miles and a vertical drop 850 feet, and features a single quad two triple lifts, and 11 lines for winter skiing his activities that night. such as extended Canaan Valley, including skiing, snowboarding, airboarding, tubing, snowshoeing, and skating ice, while the summer program, including chairlift rides a beautiful, guided walks, golf, tennis, and hiking.

Big Mountain D. State

Big Mountain County, the location of the second highest peak of West Virginia, serves as the birthplace of eight river-the Greenbier, Gauley, Cheat, Cherry, Elk, Williams, Cranberry, and Tygart, while the Seneca State Forest, which borders with the former in Pocahontas County, the oldest. An interesting array of scenery including steam-powered railroad logging, observatory astronomy, preserved the city, a major ski resort, and they related the various sports and outdoor activities.

What Durbin and Greenbier's Valley Railroad train The fourth tour, "Durbin Rocket," Durbin departed from the town itself, located about 40 miles from Elkins.

The steam engine powered by 55 tons built for Moore-Keppel Lumber Company in nearby Randolph County, and one of the three remaining directed Climax logging locomotive, carriage making, running the two-hour 11-mile round-trip along the River Greenbier and through the Monongahela National Forest as far as Piney Island, where the caboose "rental wasted" cut and pushed into a very short spur track to stay single or more nights.

It's ultra-modern, high-tech National Radio Astronomy Observatory, located not far away in Green Bank, offers the opportunity to learn about radio astronomy.

Design, the most powerful telescopes and sophisticated building, and operating the world's radio observatories produce images of celestial bodies, like planets, stars, and galaxies, millions of light years to record their radio number of omissions.

Green Bank Science Center, the core of this experience, complete with a museum which introduces science of radio astronomy, radio waves, the operation of the telescope, and what is being learned through them about the universe; Galaxy Gift Shop; Starlight Café, and the departure point escorted bus tour of the facility, before the film is presented in the introductory and lecture theater.

The tour highlight is the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT), was designed when the device 300 feet before collapsing in 1988 and forced Congress to appropriate emergency funds for the designs.

Dedicated on August 25, 2000, after a period of nine development years, is 485 meters, consists of 2004 panels, has a diameter of 100-by-110 meter, surface area of 2.3 hectares, and weighs 17 million pounds. The world's largest, fully controlled telescope with a surface that reflects the computer-controlled, functionally independent from the sun, which allows operating 24-hours-per-day, and receive varying wavelengths between 1/8th inch to nine feet.

Initially working together with the Arecibo Observatory to produce a picture of Venus, later detected three new pulsars (spinning neutron star) Messier 62 in the area.

Travel 15 minutes from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a significant different view, Cass Scenic Railroad State Park.

Navigate its origins to 1899 when John G. Luke gets more than 67 000 hectares of red pine trees in the area which eventually evolved into Cass City, it became the headquarters of the West Virginia Pulp and City Paper Company,. support workers needed to change the raw resources into finished products, grow shops, services, houses, a sawmill, tracks, and trains to transport fire wood.

Operation has become instrumental for Shay, or same-designed Climax and Heisler steam locomotive, which is gearing delivered straight positive control and even more power, which allows them to temporarily put the track-layers often, the steep, and hairpin turns out, pulling the weight, the new-felled timber load. Maryland West # 6, at 162 tons, is the last, and heavy, Shay locomotive ever built. inaugurated the first train service in 1901.

During two 11-hour, shifted six-days-per-week, the city managed to cut the plant more than 125,000 board feet of timber per shift and a dry run with 11 360 000 per mile steam pipe companies, add up to feet board cut 1.5 million per week and 35 million per year. After 40 years in Cass and Spruce mill, more than two billion board feet of wood and paper have been produced.

Operation until 1943, the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company sold the company to the Mower Lumber Company, the other believes 17 years, when it closed and bought by the state of West Virginia, in 1961.

Cass railroad and the city, which remained unchanged, which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

To the side of buildings historic, there are several other attractions. Connected to the Company Store is a great Cass-Run Last train-themed restaurant. Turn-of-the-century logging can be seen at the Museum of History of Cass Shay Railroad Shop. has never occupied the coal basket, offering additional books and crafts for sale. metal, Cass Showcase building on it, after being stored hay for feed a horse team, the film features an introduction and HO scale trains and a city that reflects the layout of their appearance in the 1930s.

Escorted walking tours of Cass, usually done in the afternoon after a train had been returning from their daily visits, offers insights into what is like to live and work in a company town turn-of-the-century, while the Locomotive Repair Shop tour includes a visit to the Mountain State Railroad and Logging Historical Association shop, sawmill area, and see Shay and Climax locomotive maintenance and repairs.

A tour in Cass Scenic Railroad itself, which began in 1963 as it trips and rides the train journey the longest in the country was beautiful, historical is a life experience. Drawn by one of the original Shay or Climax steam locomotive, the train cars to accommodate passengers in the same logging that has been converted to an authentic coach with wood, such as bench seats and roof, while a single closed car, offers reserved seating, accommodation and sports booth-like set "Leatherbark Creek."

All trains depart from the depot was reconstructed Cass, at an altitude of 2456 feet, climbing Leatherneck Run, negotiating the value of 11 per cent, and turning maneuvers through the switchback below and above, and arrived at Whittaker Station, which is equipped with a snack stand, seen from the eastern mountains of West Virginia, and a reconstructed camp, logging 1946. Lap eight kilometers way back to the Cass took two hours.

A four and a half hour, 22-mile round-trip continues up Back Allegheny Mountain, past the Old Spruce and Oats Creek Water Tank, and plying the tracks laid by Mower Lumber Company, 4842 feet before reaching Bald Knob, West Virginia's third-highest peak.

Limited also runs offered to Spruce, an abandoned logging town in the Shavers Fork Cheat River. Whittaker is also a transit train Station.

Although not affiliated with the Cass Scenic Railroad, the Boyer Station Restaurant, located six miles from Green Bank on Route 28, offers a cheap, home-cooked, country-style decor dinner trains in the middle with a wooden rail depot table-warn and benches, train and logging memorabilia, and a large scale, railroad track-mounted models. This is part of a complex of motel rooms and 20 tents.

Winter sports Cold account for most of the victims of Big Mountain's Top Ten Countries miles from Cass Scenic Railroad State Park. Snowshoe Mountain is.

Located in the bowl shaped convergence of Cheat and Back Allegheny Mountain in the head of Shavers Fork Cheat River, the region, underlined by the felling of trees between 1905 and 1960, have been found by Thomas Brigham, the North Carolina doctors teeth, which were previously opened Beech Mountain and Sugar Mountain Ski Resorts.

Reflecting on the European style, located at the top of Snowshoe Mountain Village and offers 1400 hotel rooms and condominiums, restaurants, shops, services, and entertainment. 244-acre resort, which combines the Snowshoe and Silver Creek area, has 3348 feet of glorious; 4848-foot summit, making it as the highest ski resort in the mid-Atlantic and southeast; 14 chairlifts, 60 runs, the longest is 1.5 miles; and a vertical drop of 1500 feet on Cupp Run and Shay's Revenge Avg snow. is 180 inches Spring, summer., and fall activities include golf, boating, biking, climbing, hiking, horseback riding, canoeing, kayaking, skating, and swimming.

Extended region's Seneca State Forest, named after the Native Americans who had explored the land, bordered by the River in Pocahontas County Greenbier and contains 23 miles of forest, 11 684 hectares of forest, four-hectare lake for boating and trout, Largemouth bass, and bluegill fishing, hiking tails, pioneer cabins, and camping is simple.

4. New River Valley-Greenbrier

The New River-Greenbrier Valley region of West Virginia is a diverse and rugged topography beautiful.

Split by the Gauley River, the northern part consists of steep plateau which lies calm, blue Summersville Lake, while mountain ridgelines, affording the coal mining area of the interior, is typical of the central region and horses. livestock grazing is common on a flat stretch of fertile agricultural intersperse the east side, the mountains green plains, divided by the Greenbrier River, the largest, water channels wild in the eastern United States, which flows through it. southern region is a puzzle of omni-directional ridgelines and valleys are very narrow.

New and canyon Bluestone River provides wealth-shaped rock climbing, canoeing, kayaking, and whitewater rafting opportunities in the region countries.

most prominent in the area, and beautiful, topographical features New River is a River National Park. Flowing from below Bluestone Dam, near Hinton, north of U.S. Highway 19 bridge near Fayetteville, it dissects all Mountains physiographic province Appalachian. A water, white rough rivers, and among the oldest in North America, flows north through steep valleys and geological formations around 1000 feet which is separate from the adjacent to the plateau below .. On July 30, 1998, a man named American Heritage River, one of the 14 channels of water so designated.

Its park includes the related 70 000 hectares.

Signature of New River Gorge National Park is the company's New River Gorge Bridge. Completed on October 22, 1977 at a cost of $ 37 million dual-hinged, steel arch bridge is 3030 meters, 69.3 feet wide, and has a 876-foot clearance. carrying four lanes of U.S. Route 19, then it is the world's longest, and is now a bridge "vehicular" highest in the U.S. and the world's second highest after the Millau Viaduct in France. Its longest single span, between the arches, is 1700 feet.

There are three visitor centers related and vantagepoints The Canyon Rim Visitor Center. located two miles north of Fayetteville on Route 19, offers exhibits, films, the interpretive programs, roads, and the scenery is facing, while the Center is located in Grandview Thurmond off Interstate 64 on Route 25. Park headquarters are in Glen Jean.

Fayetteville is the center for the New River Gorge, kayaking and rafting.

Coal, as synonymous with West Virginia, such as logging, is the tourism industry must sometimes experience during his visit. Exhibition This Beckley Coal Mine, located in the city with the same name, offers such opportunities.

A 1400-square-foot Company Store, coal museum, fudgery, and a gift shop and visitor center serves as a threshold of two main components of the landscape. A coal camp, the first of these, depicting 20th century life in a typical coal town, represented by some relocated and restored buildings.

Plying section 1500 feet underground in a 36-inch, Phillips-Sprague Mine Seam, which has been active between the years 1883 and 1953, track-guided "The car" driven by an authentic miner includes components of both complexes and to make periodic stops in the cold, damp, and dark areas to discuss and illustrate technical advances quarry lap. for example, ensuring that coal dust would not explode deep in the mines. roof bolts avoided strategic position cave-ins. Dangerously low extracted water pump oxygen levels. Dictated immediate evacuation.

Steam coal in the world have pushed the engine for industrial plants and rail and sea Transportation.

Phillips-Sprague Mine are listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

5. Conclusion

West Virginia's third district principle Charleston Potomac Highlands, and the New River Valley-Greenbier offers in-depth experience into the past that make up the current in a way that pristinely beautiful and rich mining resources and the mountains produced by coal, timber, logging railroads, and an abundance of outdoor sports.