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Lewisburg
A preserved eighteenth-century downtown with restaurants, galleries and a theatre, located at the southern end of the Greenbrier River Trail and in the middle of the state's most significant karst. Lost World Caverns and Organ Cave are both within a short drive, and I-64 provides direct access from Virginia and Charleston.
What's here
- Greenbrier River Trail southern terminus at Caldwell
- Lost World Caverns and Organ Cave nearby
- Strong food, lodging and arts scene
- Easy I-64 access
Lodging, food and gear in Lewisburg
Town-level listings for operators based here. Capped at four per basecamp page.
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Greenbrier River Trail
Seventy-eight miles from Cass to Caldwell on a former Chesapeake & Ohio logging grade, crossing 35 bridges by the state park's count and passing through 2 tunnels, following the Greenbrier River the entire way.
Lost World Caverns
A commercial show cave outside Lewisburg, entered by a long stairway into a single enormous chamber holding the 28-foot Snowy Chandelier stalactite.
Organ Cave
One of the longest caves in the United States, with more than forty miles of mapped passage, and a national historic landmark for its Civil War saltpeter mining works — over thirty original hoppers survive underground.
Beartown State Park
A half-mile boardwalk through a formation of large Droop Sandstone blocks separated by deep crevasses, some of which hold ice into early summer.
Blue Bend Recreation Area
A CCC-built swimming area on Anthony Creek in the Monongahela National Forest, with a deep green pool below a stone-walled beach, a campground and a loop trail up onto the ridge.
Best for
West Virginia has roughly 1.5 million acres of public land and a handful of places that carry almost all of the attention. The consequence is that a great deal of very good ground sits nearly empty, usually for one of three reasons: nobody has heard of it, the road in is gated or rough, or it is undeveloped and has nothing to advertise. Those are the places below — of them across regions.