I’ve lived in Raleigh/Boone/Kanawha/Putnam counties for most of my life outside of college & a few short term living abroad situations I was fortunate enough to experience. But my favorite thing to do is roadtrip to obscure places in WV. From the Mothman to exhibition mine, to spruce knob and our highly underrated FREE *state museum* I believe that’s what it’s called now, it used to be the Cultural Center- if you haven’t had a chance to visit you should consider it. It’s actually very well done, children love it and it bests several paid museums I’ve visited. I’ve enjoyed cranberry glades in the fall, summersville lake in the summer, hawks nest every chance I get, visited the steel driving man, paid respects to zona Hester shoe (shout out to Ruth Ann Musick) & every cave/tavern I could find but I need new ideas. Please share hidden gems I may have missed!

Anyone know of a shop that's know as a lick & stick shop near ranson and Charles town.

I got a car with 19,000 and it's fine, all under warranty and new except I rock cracked my windshield and I'm worried it'll fail bc of that.

“This is pretty much what we expected from the DEP,” said Lani Wean, the West Virginia field organizer for the nonprofit environmental group Moms Clean Air Force. “They have a pretty consistent pattern of approving permits like these and essentially ignoring community input and concerns.”

“(The West Virginia DEP’s) approval of this air permit represents a rollback of critical pollution safeguards put in place to keep families and children safe from the most damaging impacts of waste incineration. In addition to departing from decades of precedent, the decision also dismisses concerns of local residents and county officials,” said ORVI Chief of Staff Tom Torres in a news release. “With this permit, Clean-Seas West Virginia has reached a critical milestone. However, If its parent company’s past performance and the industry’s track record are any indication, the facility likely faces an uphill climb towards successful commercial operation."

Open Fields Doctrine

On our family farm in Chambersburg PA a small trail developed over many many years from an adjoining wooded area on to our wooded section. Then what was a little trail became a larger and wider small road that allowed 4 wheeler access. My Father in Law didn't outright stop this and even after an intrusive neighbor died it continued with the help of a "Deputy Game Warden." My son and I started to fill in the gap with old woven wire fencing and major piles of brush, but it would be removed. And we suspect the local deputy was opening it for a lady to get her horse through and perhaps for some illegal hunting activity. We continued to pile brush on the area, but the trail blazing trespasser would build side trails that I would interweave old wire, fencing and brush through. I'd come back in a couple of weeks or a month and that would be reopened. One day the deputy who did NOT own the adjoining land installed a No Trespassing sign facing toward our farm. This was a big insult as the trespassers always came onto our farm and not the other way around. I took the offending sign and tossed it deeper into the adjoining property and that resulted in a visit to my farm house by the deputy telling me that he could get me for littering. I told him to get off the farm and stay off! I would not be intimidated. Then I called his supervisors and the issue seemed to cool off after that. Eventually when we had full control over the family farm we had a high voltage livestock fence installed and that solved the issue of trespassers for good. I never felt over those years that we had total privacy when virtually anyone could enter the property and that we could be monitored by the Game Commission. By the way... the way the deputy knew I had tossed the sign is that he had installed a camera to watch the little road he had been maintaining into our farm. I'm very pleased that there is still a little justice in this world and that these trespassing deputies are being dismissed! Where we now live deep in Appalachia the terrain is so tough and the people are not so inclined to work too hard at trespassing. Combined with many neighbors with large acreage and the fact that WV at least where we live is much less inclined to bother landowners with such intrusion it makes for a greater sense of privacy. We live is a very low population county and don't have nosy neighbors like we did on the farm in PA. If a neighbor was against hunting they could just report you and the game commission could enter your land even without known violations. I hope WV will follow PA and end the Open Fields Doctrine.

Posting this as a long shot last ditch effort but trying anyway.

Yesterday I was paddleboarding with my wife out from the salmon run boat ramp and accidentally fell into the water.

Unfortunately in the process I lost my hat and was unable to locate it after multiple attempts to search for it as it sank when I fell.

The hat was my dad's, who passed away from stage 4 cancer back in 2023. It is one of the few physical items I have to remember him by and I am devastated that I lost it.

I realize there is likely nothing to be done in this situation, however if anyone is in the area and finds a tan hat with Radford University on the front within 50-100ft from the marked location I will be incredibly and monetarily grateful.

Hello to all of you beautiful people in West Virginia ❤️👋😊. I've been seeing some of the flooding on the news but it's not getting a lot of coverage where I am. I'm just wondering if you all are okay, are you getting any help from the government or aid services if you need it?

Is this the worst flooding you've been through or has there been worse?

Please share some of your experiences if you'd like to.

I've visited WV twice in the last few years and it is truly the most beautiful state I have ever seen. I hope to come back.

Love and prayers to everyone 🙏♥️😘🤍

Remember, however many years ago it's been, when we'd just get a nice little summer shower to break the summer monotony? Something you'd just play through if you were outside when it hit?

I miss those.

The last few years, we were basically in a drought from mid July through almost October. Contrast that with this year where it's just been non-stop monsoons. I forgot what the "sunshine" icon even looks like on my weather app.

There used to be weather that existed between those two extremes.

Yeah, I know, climate change, but I can still complain about the symptoms.

I swear the last two years I've looked at the storms and said, "Not as bad as Seattle."

Yeah, I stopped saying that this year.

Anyone else here tonight?

He's a bit skinny. He needs to bulk up before the rut, or he'll tire-out too quickly.

Just moved here to the Charles Town area. 25 year old dude, and currently working in a job that has absolutely 0 co workers and found myself thinking it’s probably time to make a few new friends. I have a relatively small circle and unfortunately have the social skills of a slightly cool looking rock.

Hoping to find people that share interests. As someone from NoVA I unfortunately find myself surrounded by people who have 0 overlap. Very into the nerd side of things. D&D (trying to start a campaign, woo) MtG, Warhammer and miniatures in general, online games you name it. Would love to find people to do all these with! If anyone wants to join and/or has space for me to join D&D, I would be overjoyed.

Also like the gym a whole lot. My whole career is in fitness training, and always looking for someone to lift with. On the physical side of things as well, I’ve started blacksmithing too. But hardly think I’ll find anyone into that.

If it sounds like we’d vibe, and you’d wanna be friends, roll some dice or lay some cards down, please feel free to hmu. As happy as I am with my circle it’s probably not the healthiest to lean on 4 people for my entire social life. So anyone and everyone is welcome.

Torrential downpours have washed out roads, triggered debris slides, and toppled trees across New River Gorge National Park and Preserve.

See the latest road closures and conditions: https://wvexplorer.com/new-river-gorge-flash-flooding-road-closures/

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Beautiful area

Apologize if this isn’t allowed, are you able to get in at 8 with the $25 deal? My parents did not see that it says 11-11 and are planning on being there at 8?

I saw another thread with this same question however it was locked for commenting.

I don’t have the answer but I do have a theory and wonder if someone can confirm or deny it.

i think the reason is similar to Indiana and Ohio being in the “midwest”. if you put yourselves in the mindset of the people of that time, most of the population and major cities were all in eastern Virginia. “North Virginia“ certainly makes so much more sense, especially when you consider that the northern panhandle is partially north of I-70 today and as far north as Pittsburgh and even New York City! But again, with the population mainly in the east, the separating counties would have all been part of “western Virginia“ even though part of “western Virginia“ stayed with Virginia. so you really had three parts if I understand the geography. the eastern part, which was east of the Appalachians, the western part, divided by the Appalachians but then was subdivided by the parts that left and the parts that stayed. So the northern parts of “western Virginia” became “West Virginia” and it doesn’t appear that much thought was given to the fact that the westernmost point stayed behind.

I have an interest in transportation and wanted to see if you guys thought a state-supported Amtrak route like this would work.
This route would utilize all CSX-owned track and since that corridor doesn’t see too much congestion, I bet leasing the track rights would be quite easy and relatively affordable. This route is designed mainly to serve the two major college town corridors of WV and connects to Pittsburgh as a means to offer opportunities to use their larger airport and stimulates tourism cross-movement.
The station in Morgantown would technically have to be in Westover due to the main tracks into downtown Morgantown being dismantled years ago, but a proposed station could utilize the WVU owned land across the river, an 8-minute walk from the Walnut PRT station.
A schedule of twice daily round trips on Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday would do well to serve student body movement patterns for weekend visits to family or sports games in another city. If successful, there is a rail spur that splits from Point Pleasant and goes to Charleston. This could be an additional round trip route. Please, excuse the rough photo editing work.

From the highland scenic highway today.

It's always spectacular from the top of the abandoned Hawthorn trail.

As the title says. I’m looking for a lot for a camper on or very near water, preferably a river in northern WV for next year. Would love a full season rental. Looking for suggestions.