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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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!
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
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. !!!!!!!
@@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.
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.
That's wonderful , I can't say anything, because I've never been there before. I've just enjoyed to watch your video through TH-cam. Thanks. Very nice. 👍
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.
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
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
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.
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.
Sitting here in Dec 2021, recovering from The Coov. So glad TH-cam 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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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..
@@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.
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!
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
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.
I would love to go to West Virginia as a tourist and spend money there but all this out of control cops and state troopers up there I'm going to keep my family friends and constituents away from West Virginia until these out of control police get put back in check
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.
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! 💙🤗
Home sweet Home Love it my Home
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.
I wouldn't have believed that you've lived that long!
@@vincentperratore4395 You are trying to be funny right?
@@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.
@@vincentperratore4395 WV is not all coal mining.
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!!
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.
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!
Great to see a more rural state showcased in such a positive way. Instead of the usual ignorant stereotypes. Great job.
WV girl always and forever
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
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.
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
I was born in Marlinton and grew up in Green Bank, then when to WVU to college.
Gotta love my home state.West by God Virginia.🦅🇺🇸
Just got back to Michigan today from your beautiful state. It was our first time there. Can’t wait to go back!
I am from Missouri and think West Virginia is the much more improved version of it. Such a beautiful state, maybe even the prettiest.
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. !!!!!!!
I moved from Newbedford, MA to Hillsboro, WV and it was the best decision of my life.
Gosh WV exactly looks like where I live, Fukushima Japan.
Trees, rocks, lakes, even ski areas... Unbelievable!
Love to visit WV. It’s a great state.
I live in Morgantown, WV and I love it here ! It's a wonderful place
why did you leave Morgan town wv?
Mr. Don Knotts came from Morgantown. He was a hilarious man.
And expensive!
@@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.
cant wait to move to wv from ny. looking to buy a house either in morgantown or fairmont white hall area.
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.
That's wonderful , I can't say anything, because I've never been there before. I've just enjoyed to watch your video through TH-cam. Thanks. Very nice. 👍
Nicely done!
It truly is Almost Heaven. People don't know the beauty they are missing.
The last trip I made with my dad before he passed away was to visit the Seneca caverns in 1993.
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.
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
Actually it was named the gunsight gendarme by climbers many decades ago.
I've been to these places many times. Beautiful. I miss my home state.
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.
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. ❤
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
Most Beautiful country mountains.
I’m Nancy from Glendale WVa. I was born and raised in WVa. I miss it very much, to old now bless WVa.😢
You're never too old to go back & enjoy it! ❤️
Glad to see you highlight Beartown State Park. One of the smallest but most unique parks in West Virginia.
It's my dream to move here after college when I pass the CPA.
I’m from WV, this is a 👍 great video. It shows the real WV.
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
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.
Born in Davis , in Sunshine b&b, on main Street mom and dad learned to swim in blackwater river. Best place in the world.
Is the restaurant still open?haven't been down there in about 10 years planning on coming ramp season.
Love the video. Free the caves. Public land for all to appreciate.
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.
Sitting here in Dec 2021, recovering from The Coov.
So glad TH-cam 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.
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.
Very well done. Living in the south is fine, but my early days in West Virginia brings the most joy to my heart!
Awesome presentation!!!
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.
WVa has great things to offer! Wheeling Nailers hockey, challenging whitewater, and more snake handling churches than any other state!
Wow! Thanks! 😮
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
just a heads up. Seneca Rocks is NOT in the eastern side of the panhandle.
?? Where is it located
@@lynnetteparkz8092 it's further South. It's not in the actual panhandle
My only wish before I pass on is to visit West Virginia 💯
good video ❤👍😊
I'd probably get lost! Woods scare me. I'd have to go with a group!
Have any of these people even Heard about Dolly Sods
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.
tks fir sharing , subtitle will much helpful to licated the places.
Nice place if you stay away from the out of town areas in Pocahontas county
Amazing place
I can clearly imagine the raven cycle now!
My home state love it
i live in wv
Everybody in this presentation that I've heard speak, sounded like they'd just gotten off the plane from LA!
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.
WV has been losing population for decades.
Rampman here.💪😇🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
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
Yeah, the world is going to be shocked in 2050 when West Virginians catch up with the times & start getting offended at everything.
@@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..
@@georgeedwards5468 Amen to that.
@@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.
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....
this was an awsom vid
Born and raised in West Virginia. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. Love the mountains and woods. Hate big flat cities and areas.
I been to blackwater falls smoke hole caverns
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!
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
I love in moorefield eva has anybody hear of that it's not mention in this
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
❤west virginia😊
Moorefield wva has any body heard that state it's not mentioned. I this video
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.
Seneca rocks is not in the panhandle….
Finding a molecule of sugar in space with an antenna? microscope?
Low population/crime & the beauty/wildlife and gun friendly quite/peaceful...Sean in Leroy WV
Great content. It’s super LAME when your seeing publicly available content with a robo voice..
Amen. Trashclickbait.
I would love to go to West Virginia as a tourist and spend money there but all this out of control cops and state troopers up there I'm going to keep my family friends and constituents away from West Virginia until these out of control police get put back in check
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Yeah, that's what they all say.
Love WV. Born Logan county 1941. My parents moved us later to Oceans WV. Wyoming county. Lift there 1960. I miss the mountains.