Greenbrier Valley

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.

Marlinton

The midpoint of the Greenbrier River Trail and the main service town of Pocahontas County.

Greenbrier River Trail End to End

Seventy-eight miles, thirty-five bridges, two tunnels and a gradient under one percent.

Greenbrier Valley Weekend

The most approachable region in the state: a rail-trail at under one percent grade, warm river paddling, a preserved eighteenth-century town, and limestone country with commercial show caves.

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.

Watoga State Park

West Virginia's largest state park at over 10,100 acres, built largely by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s.

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.

Cranberry Glades Botanical Area

The largest area of bogs in West Virginia — sphagnum and cranberry peat bogs holding plant communities left behind after the last glaciation, more typical of Canada than the mid-Atlantic, including carnivorous sundews and pitcher plants.

Falls of Hills Creek

Three waterfalls in three-quarters of a mile, dropping 25, 45 and 63 feet — the last is the second-highest waterfall in West Virginia.

Highland Scenic Highway

A 43-mile National Scenic Byway climbing over 4,500 feet across the Allegheny plateau between Richwood and US 219, with four major overlooks and access to Cranberry Glades, the Falls of Hills Creek and the Cranberry Wilderness.

Cranberry Wilderness

47,815 acres of second-growth northern hardwood and red spruce on the high plateau — the largest wilderness in West Virginia.

Cass Scenic Railroad State Park

A preserved company logging town and a working fleet of Shay geared steam locomotives that climb the original grades to Whittaker Station and on to Bald Knob — at 4,842 feet the second-highest point in West Virginia, reachable by train.

Green Bank Observatory

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope, at the center of the National Radio Quiet Zone — a 13,000-square-mile area where radio transmissions are restricted by law.

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.

Friars Hole Cave System

Among the longest cave systems in the United States, with more than forty-five miles of surveyed passage under Greenbrier and Pocahontas counties.

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.

Seneca State Forest

West Virginia's oldest state forest, 11,684 acres along the Greenbrier River with rustic CCC cabins that have no electricity, a fire tower rentable as lodging, and a quiet trail network.

Moncove Lake State Park

A small park in Monroe County built around a 144-acre lake with warm-water fishing for largemouth bass, bluegill and channel catfish, plus a swimming pool.

Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park

The site of the largest Civil War battle fought in West Virginia and the state's oldest state park, with a lookout tower over the Greenbrier Valley, short trails and a museum.

Greenbrier State Forest

Just outside White Sulphur Springs, adjoining the Monongahela National Forest, with cabins, a campground, a swimming pool and trails climbing Kate's Mountain.

Calvin Price State Forest

An undeveloped forest adjoining Watoga State Park to the south, with no facilities and minimal trail marking.

The Greenbrier

A resort in White Sulphur Springs operating since 1778, with several courses including the Old White TPC, the Greenbrier Course and the Meadows.

Lake Sherwood

The largest lake on the Monongahela National Forest, 156 acres at around 2,600 feet against the Virginia line, with two sand beaches — one on the mainland and one on an island reached by a footbridge.

Tea Creek Trail System

Forty-four miles of interlocking trail off the Highland Scenic Highway, and the best-known mixed hiking and mountain-biking network on the Marlinton district of the Monongahela National Forest.

Summit Lake

A 43-acre cold-water lake ten miles from Richwood in the Monongahela National Forest, with a 33-unit campground on the shore and the Cranberry backcountry immediately behind it.

Allegheny Trail

West Virginia's long-distance footpath, running the length of the state's mountain backbone from Virginia to Pennsylvania.