In the central Canaan Valley, the Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge protects 17,000 acres of upland forest and wetlands in the Allegheny Mountains of northeastern West Virginia. The largest part ...

Our award-winning guide to West Virginia, West Virginia Explorer was established in 1999 by historian and magazine publisher David Sibray to provide a journalistic online venue for West Virginia ...

A barn sits in an upland meadow at Piney View, a rural residential community near Beckley, W.Va. (Photo by D. Sibray) Coal mines once operated nearby, though the area was principally farmland. In the ...

The Ohio River sweeps past For Boreman near Parkersburg, West Virginia. Photo: Val Baldwin Carnell. Fort Boreman is a restored Civil War fortification and archaeological site located on a bluff ...

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While the Baltimore & Ohio and Chesapeake & Ohio built robust rail networks where they benefited most, other areas relied on ...

New River Gorge Bridge spans the New River downstream of the World Jamboree site. Photo courtesy Ed Rehbein. THURMOND, W.Va.—Visiting America's newest national park? There are countless trails to walk ...

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More than 35,000 pounds of trophy-size trout and 6,500 pounds of monster trout were stocked in advance of its Monster Trout ...

THURMOND. W.Va. — Consultants employed by the National Park Service to evaluate the condition of nationally historic structures in the New River Gorge, which are now slated for demolition, instead ...

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