Places To Go - WILD West Virginia (S2E15)

When you hear "West Virginia", what comes to mind? Be honest... Ok, now that you've conjured up who-knows-what kind of mental image, let host Matt Griffith show you the real WILD side of West Virginia! (Part 1 of a 2-part series on WV.)
Places we visit in this episode:
Seneca Caverns
Nelson Rocks
Durbin Railroad
Cass Railroad
Blackwater Falls
Snowshoe Resort
Canaan Valley Resort
New River Gorge Bridge
Green Bank Observatory
and more!
Produced by WorldTourism.com in association with NorthAmericaTourism.com, USTourism.com, WestVirginiaTourism.com and MyWV.com.

Пікірлер: 113

  • @buck546
    @buck5463 жыл бұрын

    I have said it before and I'll say it again I wake up everyday and thank God I live in WV. Still wild and wonderful after 158 years. Please let's never allow her to be changed our grandchildern deserve to inherit her just as she is.

  • @vincentperratore4395

    @vincentperratore4395

    2 жыл бұрын

    I wouldn't have believed that you've lived that long!

  • @buck546

    @buck546

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@vincentperratore4395 You are trying to be funny right?

  • @vincentperratore4395

    @vincentperratore4395

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@buck546 Sure, please don't take offence. My own mother was privileged to have been born in that wonderful state, of fine coal mining people, no less.

  • @buck546

    @buck546

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@vincentperratore4395 WV is not all coal mining.

  • @joycesewald1788

    @joycesewald1788

    2 жыл бұрын

    My husband and I visited WV during Easter week, about 10years ago it was so beautiful and I love the friendly people and great scenery!!

  • @lynnetteparkz8092
    @lynnetteparkz80922 жыл бұрын

    WV girl always and forever

  • @ES-zj5pe
    @ES-zj5pe2 жыл бұрын

    Great to see a more rural state showcased in such a positive way. Instead of the usual ignorant stereotypes. Great job.

  • @Perfectly-Imperfect
    @Perfectly-Imperfect3 жыл бұрын

    It truly is Almost Heaven. People don't know the beauty they are missing.

  • @devoniasmith9287
    @devoniasmith92873 жыл бұрын

    Gotta love my home state.West by God Virginia.🦅🇺🇸

  • @mikepaz8385

    @mikepaz8385

    3 жыл бұрын

    Just got back to Michigan today from your beautiful state. It was our first time there. Can’t wait to go back!

  • @darealberrygarcia

    @darealberrygarcia

    2 жыл бұрын

    I am from Missouri and think West Virginia is the much more improved version of it. Such a beautiful state, maybe even the prettiest.

  • @mikestone9129
    @mikestone91292 жыл бұрын

    So many people overlook WVa because they just don't see or hear a lot of people talking about it. But take the time to visit this wonderful state and you will never forget it's beauty and great people. So much to offer and so many places to go and be with nature. Like John Denver sang, Almost heaven, indeed.

  • @ralcst-1977
    @ralcst-19772 жыл бұрын

    I CONTINUE TO LOVE MY STATE!! ESPECIALLY, IN THE AREAS THAT REMAIN ISOLATED, RUSTIC, AND UNTOUCHED BY HUMAN HANDS!! THE MOUNTAINS, CREEKS, AND WHITE WATER RIVERS THROUGHOUT THE STATE CONTINUE TO CALL ME BACK. LOVE TO GET BACK EVERY TIME I CAN!! LOVE YOU.....W.V. !!!!!!!

  • @mitchelllittrel653
    @mitchelllittrel6532 жыл бұрын

    I'm from Illinois and travel all over the country for work. I wasn't thrilled when I was told I had to go to WV for a job. I worked there for 3 years and I would go back in a heartbeat. What a beautiful state. I wish I had more time to explore while I was there. Unbelievable natural treasures hidden everywhere. I honestly can't wait to go back because I have so many places I want to see.

  • @infinitycosmos4723

    @infinitycosmos4723

    Жыл бұрын

    I'm from WV. It is truly magical! May I ask what you do for a living? I would love to have a job traveling! 💙🤗

  • @howardmartin9062

    @howardmartin9062

    Жыл бұрын

    Home sweet Home Love it my Home

  • @donnymac1307
    @donnymac13072 жыл бұрын

    I moved from Newbedford, MA to Hillsboro, WV and it was the best decision of my life.

  • @AppalachianMurican
    @AppalachianMurican Жыл бұрын

    My family has been in Southern WV f0r four generations and before right across the Tug River in Pike County Ky..since 1803..we have Matewan..the Hatfield McCoys history very rural and maybe uve heard of the Hatfield McCoy trails for off road and old historic coal towns..Mingo and Logan County started the trails..it's know nation wide..you'll have a blast and very affordable

  • @carolynmyers2222
    @carolynmyers22223 жыл бұрын

    Love to visit WV. It’s a great state.

  • @nicholetaylor6966
    @nicholetaylor69662 жыл бұрын

    Now in florida, West Virginia is by far the prettiest state that I have lived in!! Cannon Valley and black water falls was my home for a short time as a kid. Thank you for sharing the true-pure-beauty of this state!

  • @Love-First
    @Love-First3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for a wonderful video❣ I don't know why more haven't watched it but I guess West Virginia remains one of the country's best kept secrets.

  • @tshsunnygt
    @tshsunnygt3 жыл бұрын

    The last trip I made with my dad before he passed away was to visit the Seneca caverns in 1993.

  • @weather848
    @weather8482 жыл бұрын

    Gosh WV exactly looks like where I live, Fukushima Japan. Trees, rocks, lakes, even ski areas... Unbelievable!

  • @joycegullett80
    @joycegullett803 жыл бұрын

    Most Beautiful country mountains.

  • @MrCarnivore007
    @MrCarnivore0072 жыл бұрын

    Lived in Pendleton county and we could see Harrisonburg's (Virginia) lights over the mountain at night. Loved living there in my JR high years. The old house and my school are still there according to Google street view. I fell in Love with the mountains then, and someday I hope to bring the wife there during fall to enjoy the colors.

  • @TheShawnm28
    @TheShawnm283 жыл бұрын

    I live in Morgantown, WV and I love it here ! It's a wonderful place

  • @armandosulanj4382

    @armandosulanj4382

    3 жыл бұрын

    why did you leave Morgan town wv?

  • @ozzyhoang3499

    @ozzyhoang3499

    3 жыл бұрын

    Mr. Don Knotts came from Morgantown. He was a hilarious man.

  • @ericobrien6013

    @ericobrien6013

    3 жыл бұрын

    And expensive!

  • @TheShawnm28

    @TheShawnm28

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ericobrien6013 it is not that expensive. It is just more expensive than most of WV. It is also the best place in WV to live. You get what you pay for.

  • @DESPO8420

    @DESPO8420

    2 жыл бұрын

    cant wait to move to wv from ny. looking to buy a house either in morgantown or fairmont white hall area.

  • @maximasforrester8689
    @maximasforrester86892 жыл бұрын

    It's my dream to move here after college when I pass the CPA.

  • @johnhelms8226
    @johnhelms8226Ай бұрын

    WVa has great things to offer! Wheeling Nailers hockey, challenging whitewater, and more snake handling churches than any other state!

  • @barbarafleckenstein2168
    @barbarafleckenstein21683 жыл бұрын

    I was born and raised in Pocahontas County close to snowshoe I am in South Carolina now it was great to see my hometown on video thank you

  • @dawnitalutz1953

    @dawnitalutz1953

    2 жыл бұрын

    I was born in Marlinton and grew up in Green Bank, then when to WVU to college.

  • @indianoutlaw9647
    @indianoutlaw9647 Жыл бұрын

    I've been to these places many times. Beautiful. I miss my home state.

  • @pauldavid601
    @pauldavid6013 жыл бұрын

    Love the video. Free the caves. Public land for all to appreciate.

  • @jeremy5246

    @jeremy5246

    3 жыл бұрын

    My daughters class went to the caverns on a class trip. If I remember correctly, The cave was discovered by a former owner of the land, and they uncovered the entrance. If I remember correctly all the lighting and cost were footed by the land owner, not the state. Also, it's fairly inexpensive, but very interesting for a ticket. Also if in the area, Smoke Hole Caverns is only 20 minutes from seneca. Also very interesting and worth a trip.

  • @josephcox6632
    @josephcox6632 Жыл бұрын

    Nicely done!

  • @Ms.GreenJeans
    @Ms.GreenJeans3 жыл бұрын

    WV proud. This list is great and my recommended list of places to go as well. I tried to move and WV called me back home. ❤

  • @michaelbragg6903
    @michaelbragg69034 жыл бұрын

    In the view of Seneca Rocks in the U there used to be a single rock formation called the Silent Soldier. It collapsed about 25 years ago.

  • @frankbrown7043

    @frankbrown7043

    3 жыл бұрын

    Never heard it called the silent soldier. It was the Princess of the legend. I know WV, Pendleton Co, Franklin Co Seat well. NSS 7276

  • @paulherring8959

    @paulherring8959

    3 жыл бұрын

    Actually it was named the gunsight gendarme by climbers many decades ago.

  • @ekohermawanto7074
    @ekohermawanto70742 жыл бұрын

    That's wonderful , I can't say anything, because I've never been there before. I've just enjoyed to watch your video through KZread. Thanks. Very nice. 👍

  • @Wendy-vy3lh
    @Wendy-vy3lh2 жыл бұрын

    I’m from WV, this is a 👍 great video. It shows the real WV.

  • @jeffchilders236
    @jeffchilders2363 жыл бұрын

    I've been a resident of West Virginia 35 years grandmother grandfather mom and dad love this state and my daughter has been at them waterfalls

  • @zyx7478
    @zyx74782 жыл бұрын

    My only wish before I pass on is to visit West Virginia 💯

  • @bigred4335
    @bigred43353 жыл бұрын

    I agree...West Virginia is great.. A lot of great places to see and visit... I used to live in charleston wv..I have left the state...I moved back to maryland...I do miss West Virginia

  • @christinahicks1885
    @christinahicks18853 жыл бұрын

    Born in Davis , in Sunshine b&b, on main Street mom and dad learned to swim in blackwater river. Best place in the world.

  • @richardrogers156

    @richardrogers156

    2 жыл бұрын

    Is the restaurant still open?haven't been down there in about 10 years planning on coming ramp season.

  • @chriscorbin6980
    @chriscorbin69802 жыл бұрын

    Blackwater Falls is a favorite of mine My husband and I spent a week there in a rented cabin as well as many visits there sometimes staying at the lodge.

  • @summerselman9581
    @summerselman95812 жыл бұрын

    i love this😆 good to see a video about my home state and im happy summersville lakes on here cause i live in the same county as it and its amazing i love WV and hope to stay for the rest of my life

  • @A.J.P.
    @A.J.P.Ай бұрын

    Loving my new home and town and state I’ll be there soon! People are soooo warm and friendly and GENUINE ❤ it’s so beautiful in WV.

  • @dirtbikeheaven1129
    @dirtbikeheaven1129 Жыл бұрын

    Glad to see you highlight Beartown State Park. One of the smallest but most unique parks in West Virginia.

  • @TeKnoVKNG23
    @TeKnoVKNG23 Жыл бұрын

    As someone who grew up there and still goes back 3-4 times a year, the whole Davis/Thomas/Canaan Valley area is worth taking a week's vacation in just to explore. Tons of hiking, Blackwater Falls, Canaan Valley State Park, Dolly Sods, Seneca Rocks and Spruce Knob a pretty easy drive away. Plenty of cool antique shops in Thomas and some good spots to grab food. Great brewery in Davis at Stumptown. Really great if you can get the weather right in early March because you can ski and hike/check out the local scenery. I will say that it isn't nearly as busy or bustling as it was back in the late 90s/early 2000s, with Deep Creek MD stealing a bit of its thunder and Covid hitting the local businesses pretty hard, but Canaan Valley still has a lot of charm especially if you are looking to disconnect from all the electronics and social media for a bit. Just check when you go up, since Covid it seems a lot of places are only open on certain days of the week. The food at the Canaan Valley resort lodge is outstanding for sit down dinner and they have a cool little pub in there now as well.

  • @enigma_mysterium
    @enigma_mysterium3 жыл бұрын

    Awesome presentation!!!

  • @jeffnicholson8289
    @jeffnicholson82892 жыл бұрын

    Sitting here in Dec 2021, recovering from The Coov. So glad KZread decided I needed to watch this video. I live in Southern Indiana, and WV just isn't a State that crossed my mind very much. Thanks to your video, now I don't think it'll ever leave.

  • @quaternary611
    @quaternary611 Жыл бұрын

    Very well done. Living in the south is fine, but my early days in West Virginia brings the most joy to my heart!

  • @tiredofit4761
    @tiredofit476111 ай бұрын

    I was born and raised in southern WV. I moved when I was 18 because the mines weren’t running anymore and my dad found work in Maryland. It still makes me sad. I feel nothing but sadness when I go back. It’s a beautiful state with beautiful people. I hate that big coal has destroyed what could have been.

  • @bonniemullen4990
    @bonniemullen49902 жыл бұрын

    good video ❤👍😊

  • @nancykesselring1486
    @nancykesselring1486 Жыл бұрын

    I’m Nancy from Glendale WVa. I was born and raised in WVa. I miss it very much, to old now bless WVa.😢

  • @wendywehner2320

    @wendywehner2320

    Жыл бұрын

    You're never too old to go back & enjoy it! ❤️

  • @citomp1240
    @citomp12402 жыл бұрын

    It was almost heaven, until everyone else came here to tell us how to live. Still wish my home was secret. Commercialization ruins everything it touches. Don't want it anymore leave us alone.

  • @bradc6199

    @bradc6199

    Жыл бұрын

    WV has been losing population for decades.

  • @eliasbeto4739
    @eliasbeto47393 жыл бұрын

    Have any of these people even Heard about Dolly Sods

  • @petehenry7878

    @petehenry7878

    3 жыл бұрын

    I don't think I have enough fingers and toes' to count how many times I've driven across the Sods. Use to drive up there on a whim. My usual route was to go in from the Jordan Run side, out on the Laneville side and back home through Canaan valley. Makes for a nice drive.

  • @thewvgamershull1312
    @thewvgamershull13123 жыл бұрын

    i live in wv

  • @howardmartin9062
    @howardmartin90622 жыл бұрын

    My home state love it

  • @ericobrien6013
    @ericobrien60133 жыл бұрын

    I'd probably get lost! Woods scare me. I'd have to go with a group!

  • @tammyhollandsworth6783
    @tammyhollandsworth6783 Жыл бұрын

    Wow! Thanks! 😮

  • @rozhinmkian6325
    @rozhinmkian63252 жыл бұрын

    I can clearly imagine the raven cycle now!

  • @WagnerBoy55
    @WagnerBoy552 жыл бұрын

    Amazing place

  • @athenaguan3809
    @athenaguan38092 жыл бұрын

    tks fir sharing , subtitle will much helpful to licated the places.

  • @playsball
    @playsball3 жыл бұрын

    just a heads up. Seneca Rocks is NOT in the eastern side of the panhandle.

  • @lynnetteparkz8092

    @lynnetteparkz8092

    2 жыл бұрын

    ?? Where is it located

  • @shari_lynn7454

    @shari_lynn7454

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@lynnetteparkz8092 it's further South. It's not in the actual panhandle

  • @NoName-ls3sk
    @NoName-ls3sk2 жыл бұрын

    Nice place if you stay away from the out of town areas in Pocahontas county

  • @vincentperratore4395
    @vincentperratore43953 жыл бұрын

    Everybody in this presentation that I've heard speak, sounded like they'd just gotten off the plane from LA!

  • @richardrogers156
    @richardrogers1562 жыл бұрын

    Rampman here.💪😇🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

  • @lawrencedavis1650
    @lawrencedavis16505 ай бұрын

    this was an awsom vid

  • @martinharford774
    @martinharford7743 ай бұрын

    If you really want to experience sulfur water, go to Rich Hill MO. It’s an old coal mining town. I spent summers there growing up. We experimented with ways to neutralize it. We would have become rich and famous! Would have!

  • @user-em2uy2pf4n
    @user-em2uy2pf4n10 ай бұрын

    ❤west virginia😊

  • @southfla2003
    @southfla20033 жыл бұрын

    You're absolutely correct, I always said 20 years behind times but if you analyze socially you can add on another 10 or 20 years to that easily

  • @Mr._Anderpson

    @Mr._Anderpson

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, the world is going to be shocked in 2050 when West Virginians catch up with the times & start getting offended at everything.

  • @georgeedwards5468

    @georgeedwards5468

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Mr._Anderpson you mean in 50 yrs when cities crumble and these city folk come tru and take over what's ours.skin a buck,run a trot line,these country boys can and will survive..

  • @Perfectly-Imperfect

    @Perfectly-Imperfect

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@georgeedwards5468 Amen to that.

  • @Perfectly-Imperfect

    @Perfectly-Imperfect

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Mr._Anderpson People have tried to insult, offend & stereotype us here in WV since 1863 when we separated from VA. So we learned to look over ignorance a long time ago.

  • @SCLARK2112

    @SCLARK2112

    2 жыл бұрын

    If it's still like America was 40 years ago, I'd LOVE to live there, I hate what's happened to the rest of the country....

  • @lisamiller2710
    @lisamiller27102 жыл бұрын

    I been to blackwater falls smoke hole caverns

  • @judyherronchiles5129
    @judyherronchiles5129 Жыл бұрын

    well things have changed as though she West Virginia since I worked there back in the nineties I love working there and I learned so many things in the restaurants I learned how to do any pastas I am did a lot of different things and I loved it they had gotten food growing back in the nannies when I work there so people can have a job all the way around the year we dreaded it when the snow started going away we knew our jobs were going in and that means unemployment and we didn't like that too well because West Virginia people are hard-working people and good people they have guts and Glory they're good-hearted people like I said I know I'm one of them and I live in South Carolina and I would I don't like it here I want to come home but nobody will bring me back to West Virginia to live I'm 67 years old now and makes a big difference but I know the snow gets Mighty deep and he gets mighty cold but you know what I'd rather have the snow and the good-hearted people in the state of West Virginia and family and friends and then live in South Carolina when I first got married the second time around I took my husband to snooze you West Virginia and I took him up at Mountain he couldn't believe it and he got there and we went to the ski resort when I worked there was a good time Bobby and the cafe and I know things have changed around and Silver Creek has two because I work for places I'd work my days off it Snowshoe and work at Silver Creek because back in Silver Creek wasn't on my Snowshoe that later came in with no shoe but I loved every minute of it I love my work and I love the people I work with and I got to see some fabulous entertainers and Snowshoe West Virginia and concerts I love every minute of it when I was working there I never did ski I was ready to get on the skis but my kids did and their father did I was a chicken and I would say that very strongly I was checking to get out on a ski slope that I learned so many different things about Snowshoe and I love to go back and see it again and see how it's growing since I was back there 20 years ago that's the last time I've been there and I would love to see it again and see the people of Snowshoe West Virginia and you working I know it's a hard problem if you work from Elkins or Mill Creek to drive up that mountain every day and drive home at night or whatever you doing I know I used to drive from Norton West Virginia I leave my house at 1:00 in the afternoon and I wouldn't get home to 2:00 in the morning and I'd get like maybe three or four hours sleep and I have to get up and put my kids off to school and I would lay back down get a couple more hours of sleep and get up and do whatever I had to do and I worked a lot of overtime because that's how we made her money that my first husband and I we really loved it working there we had three two companies address all the time working had to get off one job got another job even had my little cleaning business I had three jobs on that mountain on my days off I go up and clean condos for individual people that I will get home at a decent time but I had two kids and now might have had the weekend off but I never got the weekend off but you know my kids grew up to be good kids they never gave me no trouble they stay with your grandpa while we're in the father well we work together and my mother work with me as soon as she West Virginia and that was just like a family little team working I did housekeeping I did a little bit of everything answering phones managing sometimes when my boss wanted to take off for a week and go home I was stay on the mountain I didn't go home but in the old ski resort building they used to have them pinball machines and we love to play them and one of the guys I used to like to play with was skip the genie machine is what we used to call it and that's when the Pac-Man machines were out and all of that back then it was so much fun if you wanted to take a break and eat your lunch and play a game you could do that or you can sit in the big Hall there a good time Bobby's we're good time Bobby's was I don't know and the Summit Building there's a place as I worked at and I loved it may God bless all of you y'all have fun working and I'll sit back and watch the videos because that's the closest I'm going to get it looks like it

  • @belindadavis7274
    @belindadavis7274 Жыл бұрын

    Yes I what a 1 acres of land ,just to put a shed on for living in , but be near a town area so I can shopping, ok

  • @lisamiller2710
    @lisamiller27102 жыл бұрын

    I love in moorefield eva has anybody hear of that it's not mention in this

  • @susanidepatton9338
    @susanidepatton93382 жыл бұрын

    Seneca rocks is not in the panhandle….

  • @lisamiller2710
    @lisamiller27102 жыл бұрын

    Moorefield wva has any body heard that state it's not mentioned. I this video

  • @seanberthiaume8240
    @seanberthiaume82402 жыл бұрын

    Low population/crime & the beauty/wildlife and gun friendly quite/peaceful...Sean in Leroy WV

  • @joneshank1
    @joneshank12 жыл бұрын

    Finding a molecule of sugar in space with an antenna? microscope?

  • @patrickpepper2490
    @patrickpepper2490 Жыл бұрын

    I’m proud to be from here but it’s only because I experienced it when people around me were too young to become homegrown terrorists. I have lots of good memories here but they have been tainted and now I’m in the process of forgetting 18 years because it was all a lie and starting over.

  • @AlphaChimpEnergy
    @AlphaChimpEnergy3 жыл бұрын

    Great content. It’s super LAME when your seeing publicly available content with a robo voice..

  • @pauldavid601

    @pauldavid601

    3 жыл бұрын

    Amen. Trashclickbait.

  • @jahangirhossain5851
    @jahangirhossain58513 жыл бұрын

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  • @plasticinthetree4261

    @plasticinthetree4261

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, that's what they all say.

  • @ronaldmcneely2035

    @ronaldmcneely2035

    2 жыл бұрын

    Love WV. Born Logan county 1941. My parents moved us later to Oceans WV. Wyoming county. Lift there 1960. I miss the mountains.