Ted Fauster: Meet the top five monsters from the West Virginia hills
Jan 13, 2022 — No. 5: The Grafton Monster. The Grafton Monster may still wander lonely among the hills of lower Tygart Valley. (Illustration by Ted Fauster) Formerly a railroad boomtown, Grafton, West Virginia, today seems somewhat an anomaly -- a village of big-city architecture locked in a territory of small farms and dense woodlands.
W.Va. announces fall trout stockings and return of Monster Trout ...
Oct 10, 2024 — The W.Va. Dept. of Natural Resources will stock 35,000 pounds of trout weighing one to two pounds in 40 lakes and streams around the state and 6,500 pounds of monster trout weighing three to six pounds. Gov. Jim Justice, himself an angler, celebrated the announcement with enthusiasm. "Our trout program keeps getting bigger and better, and this ...
Charleston, West Virginia - West Virginia Explorer
The statehouse dome rises along the Kanawha in Charleston, West Virginia.Photo courtesy Rick Burgess.. Charleston, West Virginia (WV), is the seat of Kanawha County and capital of West Virginia.Located along the Kanawha River at its junction with the Elk, Charleston was chartered in 1794 as "Charles Town" and named by town founder George Clendenin for …
Mountains and Mountain Ranges - West Virginia Explorer
Certainly most of the state is mountainous, with the exception of a few broad river valleys, such as that of Ohio River, the lower Kanawha River, and South Branch of the Potomac River. West Virginia lies entirely within the Appalachian Mountains. Though many of its lesser mountains might be termed "hills," more mountain land exists per square ...
West Virginia Travel Guide - West Virginia Explorer
West Virginia, seen here at the New River Gorge, is often rated one of the safest U.S. states in which to travel and vacation.. Our West Virginia Travel Guide includes everything you'll need to arrange a West Virginia vacation in a matter of minutes. West Virginia Explorer is, in effect, a travel guide of many thousands of pages, but here we've consolidated information to …
West Virginia Coal Fields - West Virginia Explorer
10. Northern Panhandle Coal Field includes the counties of Hancock (part); Brooke; Ohio; and Marshall (part). 11. Fairmont Coal Field includes the counties of Monongalia; Marion (part); Harrison (part); Taylor; and Preston. The coal-producing areas of West Virginia have been traditionally defined as fields, each field corresponding to a given ...
Sutton, West Virginia - West Virginia Explorer
Sutton, West Virginia (WV), the seat of Braxton County, is named for its founder, John Sutton. It is situated on the Elk River approximately four miles north of the geographic center of West Virginia. The first settlers here were Jeremiah and Benjamin Carpenter, who arrived in 1784. Soon after, Benjamin and his wife were killed by Indians. In ...
Petersburg, West Virginia - West Virginia Explorer
Petersburg is located on highways US-250 at WV-28 and WV-55 approximately 22 miles northeast of Seneca Rocks, West Virginia, 30 miles north of Franklin, West Virginia, and 12 miles southwest of the US-48 expressway at Moorefield, West Virginia. Petersburg is located in the Potomac Branches Region in eastern West Virginia. Petersburg, West ...
West Virginia stocks 43 waters during first week of fall trout stocking
Oct 23, 2023 — SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The W.Va. Division of Natural Resources stocked 43 during the first week of fall trout stocking, and two anglers have already entered valid tag numbers into the Monster Trout Contest. According to officials, during the weeks of October 16 and 23, the state is stocking more than 40,000 pounds of trophy-size trout at ...
West Virginia Regions - West Virginia Explorer
4 days ago — Mountain ranges of varied character and settlement patterns of varied periods, and peoples have combined to create a strongly regionalized geography. These twelve West Virginia regions taking into account geography and culture. Boundaries may overlap, and subdivisions exist within each. Allegheny Highlands Region. Bluestone Region.