my family and i just moved to Morgantown WV in march this year from living in upstate NY and let me tell you the people here are super nice and having greenery around all the time is so beautiful!!! would like to get out of a college town in the next couple years but we love calling WV our home!! thank you for this video!
The Warner theater was absolutely gorgeous inside. Old time red carpet, ropes, gold trim accents. Carved moldings. A treasure left to ruin. Seen many movies there growing up. Love my town. Great video. Thanks.
I live in Morgantown and I swear people like you should just move here and become part of our community... Because people such as yourselves would love it even more 😀😀 Thank you for this video
I love Morgantown. Born and raised West Virginian here and raising my family in these beautiful hills. We live in a very rural area within an 1.5 hours drive from Morgantown, where I work part-time. The area can get very busy during the school year. I do find it a beautiful, quaint town with a lot to offer, though. I have traveled all over the US and still say the friendliest people are from right here in WV. Glad you enjoyed your visit and shared this video. New sub here as I just found you guys and like the way you explore.
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Some people might like boring or sleepy. They might see the insanity of NYC or Chicago and say: "Naw dog, let's go to Morgantown." I live in a small town myself. I want to live in some kind of civilization, but give a boring and sleepy place. Don Knotts calls Morgantown his hometown. I'm glad you were able to visit his statue.
Gator, I am an odd personification of what you mentioned lol. I grew up 20 mins up the road from Morgantown in Preston County. Through the course of life I have currently ended up living in The Bronx in NYC. I would move back home in a heartbeat if I could get a job making anything close to what I do, but the sad reality is it could not possibly happen. My goal though is that when I retire from where I work I can buy some little place in Monongalia or Preston county and live out my days in those beautiful mountains :)
i moved to morgantown from nyc, lived 21 yrs in nyc and my first year in morgantown, never missed nyc even a bit. morgantown is not boring if you love nature and have kids.. a lot to offer. plus pittsburgh is about 75 mins away, big city with everything you need. nice video✌🏻👍🏻
That’s cool! My grandparents got married there and their son (my uncle) spearheaded the idea for the PRT as an industrial engineering professor in the 70s.
Looks like a nice little town. West Virginia doesn't have any real, true cities, but it sure has a lot of beautiful scenery. Too bad that state is so economically depressed.
That’s mostly the southern part of the state. Even though Mylan/Viatris left there are still several companies that are moving in to the area. There is a food processing plant that just got stated. There is also a battery or solar company that is building or buying a building to start production in 2023. The biggest issue with WV is that it’s land has been contaminated due to its history of being the chemical production capital of the US. All of that went to Texas, but many residents have health issues due to air, water, and soil contamination.
@@jeremiahallyn4603 Sosa Smith means that the chemical industry was located in the Charleston and Huntington areas. The rest of the state has ecological problems, but that's due to mining rather than chemical processing.
Actually, the metro population of Morgantown is over 120,000 and the influx of the student population is almost 30,000 more 9 months out of the year. On football Saturdays, the 65,000 seat stadium is packed with a great deal of out-of-town ticket holders, rendering roads and highways into gridlock. It's really not a small town.
The pepperoni rolls you got are from Fairmont from the original bakery of pepperoni rolls. It was started by an Italian coal miner who came up with them as a lunch the miners could eat requiring no refrigeration.
The absolute best pepperoni rolls are at this one gas station on Mid Atlantic Drive, I think they might come from PA, but they blow Chico’s out of the water.
Morgantown is always listed among the Top 20 College Towns in America. The first ranking I saw was over a decade ago by Huffington Post when WVU was a member of the former Big East Conference for all sports. Currently WVU is a member of the Big XII Conference and Morgantown continues to be ranked among America's best college towns along with conference rivals Ames, IA, Lawrence, KS and Manhattan, KS. Some conference fans refer to Morgantown as the Big XII's "mountain outpost" back East.
Thank you for making this video - I was born and raised in Morgantown, so a bit homesick after watching. :) I originally intended to comment on your mispronunciation of the name of the river, but after reading the comments now I just want to ask you not to cut out those parts! And please make more videos of this beautiful region of the country!
Lol that hill you are looking at around the 7:45 mark is where I learned how to stop and start a standard vehicle on a hill, as well as most of my family. When I was a very young child my father used to be the manager of the Book Exchange store there on the right at the top of the hill when it was owned by John Fleming!
Morgantown has a great Indian restaurant called Fresh Mint which sells dosas and a few other South Indian selections. South Indian is not overly commonly served at Indian restaurants in the US so it’s kind of unique.
It’s ingenuous to the town to completely omit the university, and the entirety of the divisions of Evansdale, Sunnyside, and Suncreat that also make up Morgantown. The culture of the university and the interactions between the students and townies are what make Morgantown special
Morgantown is a college town, and college towns are almost never boring. I haven't been to Morgantown, but when I was going to UVA in Charlottesville one weekend a bunch of us girls went on a road trip to the annual Roadkill Festival in Marlintown, WV and it was a hoot!
It's precisely because it is a college town that makes it a problem. Because the college is buying up alot of the land and converting it to student housing, they are effectively making the properties untaxable which has the secondary effect of reducing the budget the town needs to fix and maintain the roads. Which is why most of the roads are crappy and depending where you are in town you can see the old brick roads underneath the asphalt.
@Zombie 2135 that is only when the students are in town. When they are not in town all that money is pretty much nonexistant. Couple that with the fact that most of the roads that they do repave almost always dont need to be. take for example the roads over in the south park area, the only roads over there that get replaced are the ones adjacent to the super expensive houses while the not so expensive houses right down the road have roads that are practically gravel or brick. And do you want to know who mostly lives in those really nice houses? The college professors.
Graduated WVU in 1977. My daughter got her masters there a couple decades later. It has become a great little city. My family is from Preston County - which you have wandered through on another video. We had our 101st family reunion weekend before last, spent the night in Morgantown.
What was your major? My parents graduated in 77. Fine Art and Soil Science (yes, an artist and a scientist - no wonder it didn’t work out and I feel like my brain is constantly battling itself).
Thank you for making this great video, it kind of made me miss morgantown a lot. It's been almost ten years since I graduated from WVU. Hope that one day I can take my wife and kid to walk on the streets again which I was so familiar with.
It's how the bartender at the Morgantown Distillery told us to pronounce. Can't win for losing. I'm in the process of deleting all those parts of the video.
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip Must have pegged you as a tourist and tried to have a little fun with you. If you ever come to Alaska check in with me first and I'll clue you in on how various cities, towns, rivers, mountains and other features are pronounced.
Guys who work on the commercial tow boats just call it the "Mon" river. They say it's so crooked that it would break a snakes back. The Mon and the Allegheny River merge at Pittsburgh to form the Ohio River.
It was the birthplace and hometown of Don Knotts (1924-2006). Hence, since it contributed to the formation of his ingenious, zany persona, it couldn't have been boring!
I admire and salute your reconnaissant missions into possibly sketchy parts of town prior to calling in "The Wife" for later ground support and incursions.
I grew up in the opposite end of the state but only went through Morgantown a few times via Greyhound when I was commuting to and from Pittsburgh for college. It always looked so inviting and I know they have a nice music/art scene, largely in thanks to the huge WVU student population. I've heard recently that the food scene is taking off there too. Really regretting not checking it out at some point. Oh well, maybe I'll take a road trip one summer and hit up Morgantown and Pittsburgh.
Thank you for making this video. Next time you are in town here are some things to try out (some of these are not downtown, but are in Morgantown). We have: putt putt and regular golf; a paint your own pottery place; two movie theatres; three live theatres; antique and consignment shops; an escape room; an art museum; a glass museum; art galleries'; rail trails; public parks and pools; music venues; a lot of unique dinning and much more!
The USA needs more tram systems in the cities, you have the road space to easily do the infrastructure. I rode the LA metro ten+ years ago and saw its potential. Nice place.
Agree. The plan for rapid transit in Milwaukee went to sleep. Would like to see rapid transit connections statewide. A positive step to get fossil fuels off the road.
@@jjbigfoot9077 Don't be too sure. It may well happen by foreign owned investors literally buying this country on the open real estate market. It's called capitalism. Sell to whoever can pay. Part of the two trill has a Bush, Jr signature six months before he left office by getting a loan from China to pay for the Iraq war. Where I live 13k acres of restoration nature sanctuaries in 2013 were sold to private equities venture capital groups to foreigners. An entire stretch of the IL freeway I forget which. Dan Ryan or Kennedy I think. Hello everybody.
The issue I have with Morgantown is with the student population being over 40,000 people it is made up of predominantly out of state students. Kids come to Morgantown for college and have the best times if their lives. The issue is kids leave and move elsewhere after they graduate so the city will never become a real city, rather just a wild fun college town.
MORGANTOWN, West Virginia: BORING? - What We Actually Found 0341am 6.11.23 in keeping with having fun.... these two guys gradually becoming worse for wear as the video went on and on... ahahah.. my kindda presentation.
I am so grateful for your photography of this town. The hill and picnic table at 18:00 is calling my name! I’d like to set up my ham radio and operate for a little while. Keep traveling.
did my childhood and teenager summer years in Peoria just east of Shinnston. Terrible what the coal mines did to that area stripping it away. can't even go mushroom hunting anymore and the huge turtles are gone. However, everyone around there knows how to make a pepperoni roll which was passed on to me.
For those that dont speak the queens korean: The place where I got married and had children.. My heart's hometown. I live in Korea now, but I always miss Morgantown. When I saw a familiar place, I screamed, thanks for the video.
The Morgantown brewing company has tons of musicians every thursday night for an open jam! The constantly growing live music scene here is great with the Ruby ampitheater and al lthe various venues like 123 pleasant street. Also lots of talents regional artists are from Morgantown like Aristotle Jones!
The pepperoni roll bought at the parmor gas station was not baked at Chico Bakery. It was baked at the Country Club Bakery in Fairmont West Virginia. My sister works at Chico Bakery and their brand is Julia's pepperoni rolls. So glad you enjoyed our town and God Bless you!
I spent a couple of weeks in Morgantown back in '83. I was visiting from Australia and spent some time at WVU. I remember the PRT and if I remember correctly it was built by Boeing. It's a beautiful part of the country and seems to have grown a lot since then. I was staying on a farm out of town a bit and enjoyed many walks in the countryside and my first sight of a groundhog! I'll never forget the hospitality of the people.
Since you've probably not had a pepperoni roll from Chico's bakery AND assuming those you bought are from Country Club bakery, you have no idea how fortunate you you were. Country Club is among the best of the best. There are numerous bakeries around and they all make many things but mainly focus on whole loaf Italian or French bread & pepperoni rolls. Hope to find you enjoyed them as I paused the video. Oh, pepperoni rolls are improved with peppers (sauced or hot) & cheese, heated in an oven (preferably).
I invited my mom to visit Morgan town for Texas hate week, she's getting out of Texas for the first time in like 40+ years, my grandparents passed on and I'm asking her to come live in WV with me :) It's a beautiful state.
Glad you liked our town! I’m glad you visited the Morgantown brewing company-def a fav! I hope you took some pepperoni rolls with you for the road trip to the next town!
Lives there for years. Sad about the Warner Theater, it used to play cult classics like Ricky Horror and Ghostbusters. Also, surprised you didn't go to thw 123 Pleasant St. Bar.
I was a movie reviewer on the DA (school paper) and saw many films at both it and Met. As a reviewer I had a free pass for all films. Plus the owners would sometimes toss in free popcorn and a drink. :)
I remember a song by Joni Mitchell from the early 1970s called, "Morning Morgantown." A nice little song. I noticed in the tram area the lack of grafitti; that was nice. At 7:52 one can see an observatory on top of the building at the end of the block. I noticed also, alot of concrete streets and later on asphalt. Wow, gas for $3.77 a gallon at the green station. Here in Northern California it is still over 5 dollars a gallon. Nice exposé on the city and the environs. Thanks.
I've heard rumors that Joni Mitchell's song is based on Morgantown. Well, maybe if she saw it on a map and thought it was a cool name--but that would be about it. The real Morgantown is nothing like the town described in her song.
I've always been curious how drones play into air traffic control. We've been looking into moving to Morgantown and this helped us to get a feel of it. Thank you.
The funny thing is how you go past all these shops that are currently closed, but walk right past one of the coolest shops in town with its huge "open" sign right out on the sidewalk.
Enjoy your videos. Btw. The river is pronounced mon on ga HEEL a. But the county is MON in GALE ee ya. It's the same word in the original language. We couldn't pronounce it either.
I was born in Morgantown and I still live here. When you came across the Westover bridge, coming into Morgantown that's my favorite view also. A lot of red brick.
I went to WVU and I LOVED it so much!! One can fall in love with Morgantown and that’s a fact. The PRT was brand new. I was there 1975-1979 and the party was on!!
I've lived in Morgantown for 10 years now. It's nice but can be a bit crowded when students are in. You should check out Preston county. It's right down the road from Morgantown basically. Preston has beautiful views but has absolutely nothing to do besides swim in the river, which is a lot of fun if you go to blue hole or some call it high bridge
Fairmont, WV is the original home of Pepperoni Rolls. They were made by miners wives for their husband's, who worked in the coal mines, for their lunches. Sorry that someone has misinformed you. I'm a native of Fairmont.
My favorite spot in Morgantown is the hill above the U Club apartment complex. (There is a road at the top of the hill with a small pull off) You can see all of downtown and watch the sun set over the city.
Zackquill Morgan lived in a home very similar to the Old Stone House, just a couple blocks away from it. It survived until the 1950's. Too bad historic preservation didn't become a thing until the 1960's. Anyone who knows anything about the history of the Methodist Church in America will know the name Francis Asbury. The Old Stone House was on Asbury's circuit. Everyone thinks the Old Stone House is the oldest building still standing in Morgantown. It isn't. I know of a private home that was built in 1772. The tall, skinny building you were admiring on High Street (the one with the two giant flagpoles on the roof) was originally built in Pittsburgh. Then it was dismantled and brought up the river on a barge and rebuilt in Morgantown.
David Morgans house is still standing in Rivesville where David and a few other Morgan family members are buried. Also a neat monument there where David had his encounter with Natives. Pretty much across the river from Pricketts Fort.
i live in morgantown and i’ll admit it’s not all that but it’s a cozy place to live for small town living but not super small(he just happened to come on our towns pride block party lol)
@@zxtenn I think it is overpopulated. Our property taxes have doubled. Lots of stores, not much to do, you might find it more peaceful a little more south. But best of luck this weekend!
@@wvusmc not real concerned. It's all part of it. When I'm not on a back ass mountain road trying to straighten out the twisties, I'll be out in the dirt on a trail somewhere doing the same thing anyway. Besides the fact that most of the rest of the country isn't really any better off in terms of road conditions. US 250 from Wheeling to Fairmont to US 50 over to Blackwater Falls, then down to Spruce Knob, and a loop around the mountains through Cass, is some of the best riding experience anyone will ever find anywhere.
I didn't know that. I have had two friends, one girl and one guy, graduate from there. The girl is now in Boise, Idaho, and the guy is in North Carolina.
Some predictions for next place: 1. Altoona 2. College Station (Penn State) 3. Pottsville (Yeungling and the Pottsville Maroons) 4. Centralia (coal fire since 1962) 5. Willes-Barre 6. Scranton
A friend and I took the trip out to Centralia in 2019. Not much left of it but was still a cool trip. Graffiti highway was still there, but it was covered up in 2020. There are still a few people living there
I used to ride the PRT and get scared because of how deceptively fast it is and how high up you are at many parts. That thing was vital to getting to my geology class and it never seemed to have issues.
The PRT is a great way to get across town when it's running. Anybody that's spent any time in Morgantown will tell you it's broken down more often than not...lol
Same when I was an undergrad in the mid-70s. It was out of order more often than not. And then it would suddenly stop in the middle of nowhere and have to wait for it to start again.
If you want to have the OG pepperoni roll go to Country Club bakery in Fairmont it's on Country Club Road and it is the best roll in the world. It's also the home of the original, you can call them and ask them when they will have some hot and they will let you know and they do at least two sometimes three bakes a day so you can get them fresh when they are crispy. It is totally worth it! The truck driver picks them up in the morning after the first bake and then delivers them all but by then they have been cooked for about four or five hours by noon so they are not near as good as if they were pulled out of the oven within a minute or two which you can have if you just call them first. The ones in a store are good but if you want the real experience you need to go in house.
I really enjoy your videos . Love to see you do one in Tarpon Springs Florida . Touristy ,kitschy and outstanding seafood and authentic Greek cuisine . Some beautiful homes as well as some not so beautiful homes . Low crime and a beautiful pristine beach on the Gulf of Mexico.
You know what's worse than driving through there in the winter? Driving through during the university's classes. I work on campus and there are literally pedestrians crossing ALL day. Not to mention, the traffic between classes as the commuters head back and forth. I drive from a small town 1.25 hours away. I travel roughly 70 miles in that time. However, it takes another half hour of university traffic to get to my workplace, which is just a two mile trip. Then, the parking 0_0...
Morgantown may be a viable alternative to Fayetteville,. AR. for me. College town vibe is important to me as are (most) college town rental rates. It's great to have that youthful energy but even better when they are on break and the town belongs to the townies! Seems the bus system is twice as used as in Fayetteville so that indicates a more robust mass transit. The one sticking point is Morgantown gets four times the snow! Thought Florida was going to be my destination for my 60s. But times have changed.
Gotta come back and get the pep rolls from Chicos. They’re called “Julia’s pepperoni rolls.” Just a side note, you can order them online and get them shipped to you from their website 😊
What a pretty place. That pram is cool, we didn't have that at FSU. And the stone house was solid. Nice, but I could never drive those steep hills in the winter.
Best pepperoni rolls in Morgantown are from mid-Atlantic market off Pierpont exit and from hometown bakery in Clarksburg, which are sold in gas stations
you should check out st. marys and sistersville st marys has a train track running thru the middle of town and sistersville is an old town with large houses built during the oil boom
when i was a kid my favorite DON KNOTTS MOVIE WAS the shakiest gun in the west he was such a good actor i thought he was for reel then i saw him on the tonight show with johnny carson when i was about 20 he was then the funniest man on tv
I have always liked Morgantown ! Morgantown is geographically located in a great area in the east. Not too far from Pittsburgh and close enough to great areas of Maryland and Virginia and Ohio ...
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my family and i just moved to Morgantown WV in march this year from living in upstate NY and let me tell you the people here are super nice and having greenery around all the time is so beautiful!!! would like to get out of a college town in the next couple years but we love calling WV our home!! thank you for this video!
The Warner theater was absolutely gorgeous inside. Old time red carpet, ropes, gold trim accents. Carved moldings. A treasure left to ruin. Seen many movies there growing up. Love my town. Great video. Thanks.
Damn, that's a bummer. I hope the city figures out a way to bring it back. :)
It would be wonderful if they would, but doubtful, as it has been sitting this way for years.
I live in Morgantown and I swear people like you should just move here and become part of our community... Because people such as yourselves would love it even more 😀😀 Thank you for this video
i am considering moving there.
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I live here, are you sure you didn't come for a football game?
Coming in December. Can’t wait!
I'm a veteran and I am relocating from Arizona soon.
I love Morgantown. Born and raised West Virginian here and raising my family in these beautiful hills. We live in a very rural area within an 1.5 hours drive from Morgantown, where I work part-time. The area can get very busy during the school year. I do find it a beautiful, quaint town with a lot to offer, though. I have traveled all over the US and still say the friendliest people are from right here in WV. Glad you enjoyed your visit and shared this video. New sub here as I just found you guys and like the way you explore.
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Personal experience - the roads in Morgantown can be treacherous during winter storms.
Some people might like boring or sleepy.
They might see the insanity of NYC or Chicago and say: "Naw dog, let's go to Morgantown."
I live in a small town myself. I want to live in some kind of civilization, but give a boring and sleepy place.
Don Knotts calls Morgantown his hometown. I'm glad you were able to visit his statue.
or Indianola on the Texas Coast
I totally agree, Gator.
I wouldn't consider Morgantown sleepy lol
Gator, I am an odd personification of what you mentioned lol. I grew up 20 mins up the road from Morgantown in Preston County. Through the course of life I have currently ended up living in The Bronx in NYC. I would move back home in a heartbeat if I could get a job making anything close to what I do, but the sad reality is it could not possibly happen. My goal though is that when I retire from where I work I can buy some little place in Monongalia or Preston county and live out my days in those beautiful mountains :)
i moved to morgantown from nyc, lived 21 yrs in nyc and my first year in morgantown, never missed nyc even a bit. morgantown is not boring if you love nature and have kids.. a lot to offer. plus pittsburgh is about 75 mins away, big city with everything you need. nice video✌🏻👍🏻
My Dad helped make the metal walkway structure on top of Dorseys knob 💕 its definitely my favorite spot 👌
Cool!
Awesome.
That’s cool! My grandparents got married there and their son (my uncle) spearheaded the idea for the PRT as an industrial engineering professor in the 70s.
Looks like a nice little town. West Virginia doesn't have any real, true cities, but it sure has a lot of beautiful scenery. Too bad that state is so economically depressed.
That’s mostly the southern part of the state. Even though Mylan/Viatris left there are still several companies that are moving in to the area. There is a food processing plant that just got stated. There is also a battery or solar company that is building or buying a building to start production in 2023.
The biggest issue with WV is that it’s land has been contaminated due to its history of being the chemical production capital of the US. All of that went to Texas, but many residents have health issues due to air, water, and soil contamination.
Charleston Huntington
@@sosa_eco those are not big cities, lol. Charleston and Huntington both barely have 50K people. They are large towns.
@@jeremiahallyn4603 Sosa Smith means that the chemical industry was located in the Charleston and Huntington areas. The rest of the state has ecological problems, but that's due to mining rather than chemical processing.
Actually, the metro population of Morgantown is over 120,000 and the influx of the student population is almost 30,000 more 9 months out of the year. On football Saturdays, the 65,000 seat stadium is packed with a great deal of out-of-town ticket holders, rendering roads and highways into gridlock. It's really not a small town.
The pepperoni rolls you got are from Fairmont from the original bakery of pepperoni rolls. It was started by an Italian coal miner who came up with them as a lunch the miners could eat requiring no refrigeration.
That's what I thought and just commented on them. CC > Chico
@@shinnstoneer7 dannunzios does it best!! Chicos is fire too tho
The absolute best pepperoni rolls are at this one gas station on Mid Atlantic Drive, I think they might come from PA, but they blow Chico’s out of the water.
Morgantown is always listed among the Top 20 College Towns in America. The first ranking I saw was over a decade ago by Huffington Post when WVU was a member of the former Big East Conference for all sports. Currently WVU is a member of the Big XII Conference and Morgantown continues to be ranked among America's best college towns along with conference rivals Ames, IA, Lawrence, KS and Manhattan, KS. Some conference fans refer to Morgantown as the Big XII's "mountain outpost" back East.
Thank you for making this video -
I was born and raised in Morgantown, so a bit homesick after watching. :) I originally intended to comment on your mispronunciation of the name of the river, but after reading the comments now I just want to ask you not to cut out those parts! And please make more videos of this beautiful region of the country!
Thank you, Dawna! I will be.
Hey, can u tell about west Virginia University...how is it??
Lol that hill you are looking at around the 7:45 mark is where I learned how to stop and start a standard vehicle on a hill, as well as most of my family. When I was a very young child my father used to be the manager of the Book Exchange store there on the right at the top of the hill when it was owned by John Fleming!
Morgantown has a great Indian restaurant called Fresh Mint which sells dosas and a few other South Indian selections. South Indian is not overly commonly served at Indian restaurants in the US so it’s kind of unique.
Bombay on Uni ave is even better :)
@@bsteel364Bombay is Northern Indian.
It’s ingenuous to the town to completely omit the university, and the entirety of the divisions of Evansdale, Sunnyside, and Suncreat that also make up Morgantown. The culture of the university and the interactions between the students and townies are what make Morgantown special
It's not as ingenous as your command of the English language.
Morgantown is a college town, and college towns are almost never boring. I haven't been to Morgantown, but when I was going to UVA in Charlottesville one weekend a bunch of us girls went on a road trip to the annual Roadkill Festival in Marlintown, WV and it was a hoot!
It was definitely not boring!
It's precisely because it is a college town that makes it a problem. Because the college is buying up alot of the land and converting it to student housing, they are effectively making the properties untaxable which has the secondary effect of reducing the budget the town needs to fix and maintain the roads. Which is why most of the roads are crappy and depending where you are in town you can see the old brick roads underneath the asphalt.
@Zombie 2135 that is only when the students are in town. When they are not in town all that money is pretty much nonexistant. Couple that with the fact that most of the roads that they do repave almost always dont need to be. take for example the roads over in the south park area, the only roads over there that get replaced are the ones adjacent to the super expensive houses while the not so expensive houses right down the road have roads that are practically gravel or brick. And do you want to know who mostly lives in those really nice houses? The college professors.
I lived in Charlottesville for over 20 yrs. Live in SW Florida now. Both my daughters are UVA grads.
Graduated WVU in 1977. My daughter got her masters there a couple decades later. It has become a great little city. My family is from Preston County - which you have wandered through on another video. We had our 101st family reunion weekend before last, spent the night in Morgantown.
That is awesome!
What was your major? My parents graduated in 77. Fine Art and Soil Science (yes, an artist and a scientist - no wonder it didn’t work out and I feel like my brain is constantly battling itself).
@@poppybell8217- My major was geology.
@@cindycraig3164 Dr. Kite?
@@poppybell8217 - The only one I remember was Bob Behling. I'm bad with names. I can see their faces but can't attach a name.
Thank you for making this great video, it kind of made me miss morgantown a lot. It's been almost ten years since I graduated from WVU. Hope that one day I can take my wife and kid to walk on the streets again which I was so familiar with.
Thank you for the great comment, Danny.
The Monongahela River is pronounced “MOE-NON-GA-HAY-LAH. I live in SW PA and it’s a river 16 miles down the road from me.
Came here to say this. Loved the video, but man, that was the craziest pronunciation of Monongahela that I've ever heard!!
It's how the bartender at the Morgantown Distillery told us to pronounce. Can't win for losing. I'm in the process of deleting all those parts of the video.
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip Must have pegged you as a tourist and tried to have a little fun with you. If you ever come to Alaska check in with me first and I'll clue you in on how various cities, towns, rivers, mountains and other features are pronounced.
Guys who work on the commercial tow boats just call it the "Mon" river. They say it's so crooked that it would break a snakes back. The Mon and the Allegheny River merge at Pittsburgh to form the Ohio River.
No, it's muh-nong-uh-HEE-luh. People in Pennsylvania pronounce it wrong. Get it from the source!
It was the birthplace and hometown of Don Knotts (1924-2006). Hence, since it contributed to the formation of his ingenious, zany persona, it couldn't have been boring!
I admire and salute your reconnaissant missions into possibly sketchy parts of town prior to calling in "The Wife" for later ground support and incursions.
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip You got him to delete his ill-informed comment Lord Spoda 👍👍
Lol! 😀
The riverfront isn't sketchy--at least not during the daytime.
You have no idea how much I missed seeing my home and seeing your video of my hometown is amazing ❤️
Awesome!
I grew up in the opposite end of the state but only went through Morgantown a few times via Greyhound when I was commuting to and from Pittsburgh for college. It always looked so inviting and I know they have a nice music/art scene, largely in thanks to the huge WVU student population. I've heard recently that the food scene is taking off there too. Really regretting not checking it out at some point. Oh well, maybe I'll take a road trip one summer and hit up Morgantown and Pittsburgh.
Thank you for making this video. Next time you are in town here are some things to try out (some of these are not downtown, but are in Morgantown). We have: putt putt and regular golf; a paint your own pottery place; two movie theatres; three live theatres; antique and consignment shops; an escape room; an art museum; a glass museum; art galleries'; rail trails; public parks and pools; music venues; a lot of unique dinning and much more!
I didn't either. The bartender at Union Pub told us!
I want to go!
And lots of semicolons!
The USA needs more tram systems in the cities, you have the road space to easily do the infrastructure. I rode the LA metro ten+ years ago and saw its potential. Nice place.
We're 24 TRILION in debt. Not gonna happen.
@@jjbigfoot9077 sad, but true.
Agree. The plan for rapid transit in Milwaukee went to sleep. Would like to see rapid transit connections statewide. A positive step to get fossil fuels off the road.
@@jjbigfoot9077 Don't be too sure. It may well happen by foreign owned investors literally buying this country on the open real estate market. It's called capitalism. Sell to whoever can pay. Part of the two trill has a Bush, Jr signature six months before he left office by getting a loan from China to pay for the Iraq war. Where I live 13k acres of restoration nature sanctuaries in 2013 were sold to private equities venture capital groups to foreigners. An entire stretch of the IL freeway I forget which. Dan Ryan or Kennedy I think. Hello everybody.
@@debrapaulino918 I visited Milwaukee many years ago and was surprised at the number of empty lots in the city.
moh-non-gu-hey-la river Monongalia county.. 2 similar but different words.
The issue I have with Morgantown is with the student population being over 40,000 people it is made up of predominantly out of state students. Kids come to Morgantown for college and have the best times if their lives. The issue is kids leave and move elsewhere after they graduate so the city will never become a real city, rather just a wild fun college town.
MORGANTOWN, West Virginia: BORING? - What We Actually Found 0341am 6.11.23 in keeping with having fun.... these two guys gradually becoming worse for wear as the video went on and on... ahahah.. my kindda presentation.
Good morning from New York. Glad to see you guys are having a fun time
I very much enjoy the music choices you make for the drone footage and driving footage. Thanks for all the effort you put into this channel.
Thank you for that, Michael!
Hello 👋 subscriber from Japan , i love your content it’s like I’m traveling in America ♥️🥰 and having an idea about the place ✌️
Thank you, Mari!
Finally a positive upbeat video. Good job brother
Thanks for the video! I hope you come back and explore the rest of town. The video is great but there are a lot of other parts of the city left out.
This was a good one! You guys are just like us! Good times
Legend! Huge fan of your work. Keep 'em coming!
Thank you, Kyle.
Seems like a nice place to visit. Dorsey’s Knob is noted for its beautiful sunsets!
Nice video. Some very interesting artwork in this town. Quite enjoyable walk around.
Thank you, Mark. :)
I am so grateful for your photography of this town. The hill and picnic table at 18:00 is calling my name! I’d like to set up my ham radio and operate for a little while. Keep traveling.
did my childhood and teenager summer years in Peoria just east of Shinnston. Terrible what the coal mines did to that area stripping it away. can't even go mushroom hunting anymore and the huge turtles are gone. However, everyone around there knows how to make a pepperoni roll which was passed on to me.
I spent the best 4 years of my life at WVU. Morgantown is a great town. Thank you for taking me on a walk down memory lane.
내가 결혼하고 아이가 생긴곳..마음의 고향.
지금은 한국에 살고 있지만 언제나 모건타운이 그리워요 ❤ 익숙한 곳이 보이자 소리를 질렀어요 😍 영상 감사합니다 👍
For those that dont speak the queens korean:
The place where I got married and had children.. My heart's hometown.
I live in Korea now, but I always miss Morgantown.
When I saw a familiar place, I screamed, thanks for the video.
The Morgantown brewing company has tons of musicians every thursday night for an open jam! The constantly growing live music scene here is great with the Ruby ampitheater and al lthe various venues like 123 pleasant street. Also lots of talents regional artists are from Morgantown like Aristotle Jones!
The pepperoni roll bought at the parmor gas station was not baked at Chico Bakery. It was baked at the Country Club Bakery in Fairmont West Virginia. My sister works at Chico Bakery and their brand is Julia's pepperoni rolls.
So glad you enjoyed our town and God Bless you!
I know. I really wanted the Chico ones!
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip If you want the best pepperoni rolls you need to ravel 15 mils to Fairmont Colosessenos.
@@raymonddhedrick9587 jury's out, lol... but while you're raveling around, get the best hotdog at Woody's.... not Yan's.
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip Country Club's are better--totally biased opinion.
Once again the rolls at Mid-Atlantic off Pierpont rd.
I spent a couple of weeks in Morgantown back in '83. I was visiting from Australia and spent some time at WVU. I remember the PRT and if I remember correctly it was built by Boeing. It's a beautiful part of the country and seems to have grown a lot since then. I was staying on a farm out of town a bit and enjoyed many walks in the countryside and my first sight of a groundhog! I'll never forget the hospitality of the people.
Since you've probably not had a pepperoni roll from Chico's bakery AND assuming those you bought are from Country Club bakery, you have no idea how fortunate you you were. Country Club is among the best of the best. There are numerous bakeries around and they all make many things but mainly focus on whole loaf Italian or French bread & pepperoni rolls. Hope to find you enjoyed them as I paused the video. Oh, pepperoni rolls are improved with peppers (sauced or hot) & cheese, heated in an oven (preferably).
I invited my mom to visit Morgan town for Texas hate week, she's getting out of Texas for the first time in like 40+ years, my grandparents passed on and I'm asking her to come live in WV with me :)
It's a beautiful state.
That first drone shot you took in the beginning I live 4 houses down from that shot awesome 😎
Nothing like a little spoda in the morning to cheer you up!
Thank you!
Glad you liked our town! I’m glad you visited the Morgantown brewing company-def a fav! I hope you took some pepperoni rolls with you for the road trip to the next town!
Of course! Several packages. :)
Lives there for years. Sad about the Warner Theater, it used to play cult classics like Ricky Horror and Ghostbusters. Also, surprised you didn't go to thw 123 Pleasant St. Bar.
I was a movie reviewer on the DA (school paper) and saw many films at both it and Met. As a reviewer I had a free pass for all films. Plus the owners would sometimes toss in free popcorn and a drink. :)
I remember a song by Joni Mitchell from the early 1970s called, "Morning Morgantown." A nice little song. I noticed in the tram area the lack of grafitti; that was nice. At 7:52 one can see an observatory on top of the building at the end of the block. I noticed also, alot of concrete streets and later on asphalt. Wow, gas for $3.77 a gallon at the green station. Here in Northern California it is still over 5 dollars a gallon. Nice exposé on the city and the environs. Thanks.
I've heard rumors that Joni Mitchell's song is based on Morgantown. Well, maybe if she saw it on a map and thought it was a cool name--but that would be about it. The real Morgantown is nothing like the town described in her song.
My grandfather's home.. I love it in Morgantown.. West v gotta be one of the most beautiful places in America
It is.
I've always been curious how drones play into air traffic control.
We've been looking into moving to Morgantown and this helped us to get a feel of it. Thank you.
Technically speaking you are not supposed to fly a drone within 5 linear miles of any airport if I remember correctly.
Unfortunately where the done was here was very close to 5 miles if not inside of it
The funny thing is how you go past all these shops that are currently closed, but walk right past one of the coolest shops in town with its huge "open" sign right out on the sidewalk.
Nice view from the lookout. 👍
Enjoy your videos.
Btw. The river is pronounced mon on ga HEEL a.
But the county is MON in GALE ee ya.
It's the same word in the original language.
We couldn't pronounce it either.
Monongahela is an American Indian word which means "falling banks." Monongalia is a Latinization of that.
Skyler Neese!!!! That’s who Nicole was talking about in star city.
That’s right! Another Nicole who knows her true crime. 😀
Yes. I think her two friends murdered her because she had a video of them having lesbian sex.
Sadly her body was found across the state line in Greene Co Pa. Poor baby.
Love your videos, lets me see another America.
Also love Lady Spoda interacting with the Australian Shepherd at 29:55
Beautiful town have lots of fun while ur there want to see more fun videos
I saw the street and building where I grew up! Thanks for the video of Mgtn.
Cool!
I love the PRT! I've never seen it before! It's so cute!
I was born in Morgantown and I still live here. When you came across the Westover bridge, coming into Morgantown that's my favorite view also. A lot of red brick.
I went to WVU and I LOVED it so much!! One can fall in love with Morgantown and that’s a fact. The PRT was brand new. I was there 1975-1979 and the party was on!!
I graduated in 1977.
Squirrel too funny,🙂 Good to see Nicky on the video
I've lived in Morgantown for 10 years now. It's nice but can be a bit crowded when students are in. You should check out Preston county. It's right down the road from Morgantown basically. Preston has beautiful views but has absolutely nothing to do besides swim in the river, which is a lot of fun if you go to blue hole or some call it high bridge
Fairmont, WV is the original home of Pepperoni Rolls. They were made by miners wives for their husband's, who worked in the coal mines, for their lunches. Sorry that someone has misinformed you. I'm a native of Fairmont.
My favorite spot in Morgantown is the hill above the U Club apartment complex. (There is a road at the top of the hill with a small pull off) You can see all of downtown and watch the sun set over the city.
My niece is the owner, editor of West Virginia Living magazine. She lives in Morgantown.
Nice I live right outside of Morgantown and I like the view of the city from the far side of Westover Bridge
Just found you channel and im loving your content!
Thank you for watching!
Zackquill Morgan lived in a home very similar to the Old Stone House, just a couple blocks away from it. It survived until the 1950's. Too bad historic preservation didn't become a thing until the 1960's. Anyone who knows anything about the history of the Methodist Church in America will know the name Francis Asbury. The Old Stone House was on Asbury's circuit. Everyone thinks the Old Stone House is the oldest building still standing in Morgantown. It isn't. I know of a private home that was built in 1772.
The tall, skinny building you were admiring on High Street (the one with the two giant flagpoles on the roof) was originally built in Pittsburgh. Then it was dismantled and brought up the river on a barge and rebuilt in Morgantown.
awesome info, Steve, thx.
David Morgans house is still standing in Rivesville where David and a few other Morgan family members are buried. Also a neat monument there where David had his encounter with Natives. Pretty much across the river from Pricketts Fort.
i live in morgantown and i’ll admit it’s not all that but it’s a cozy place to live for small town living but not super small(he just happened to come on our towns pride block party lol)
I'm from Morgantown and live nearby now. Cool video.
I love those buildings. I love Brownstone.
Thanks for the great video I enjoyed watching this. My hometown!!!
How is Morgantown to live? I am going there to check out a house this weekend, the price has been dropped significantly.
@@zxtenn I think it is overpopulated. Our property taxes have doubled. Lots of stores, not much to do, you might find it more peaceful a little more south. But best of luck this weekend!
Anyone who thinks there's nothing exciting to do in West Virginia, doesn't ride motorcycles.
I always wondered how concerned you riders gotta be around here with the condition of our roads.
@@wvusmc not real concerned. It's all part of it.
When I'm not on a back ass mountain road trying to straighten out the twisties, I'll be out in the dirt on a trail somewhere doing the same thing anyway.
Besides the fact that most of the rest of the country isn't really any better off in terms of road conditions.
US 250 from Wheeling to Fairmont to US 50 over to Blackwater Falls, then down to Spruce Knob, and a loop around the mountains through Cass, is some of the best riding experience anyone will ever find anywhere.
@@JP-ec9rl I go to Dolly Sods quite a bit and that's a nice drive and I've seen out of staters quite a bit riding through there.
@@wvusmc I've been to dolly sods. Not sure I'd do it on a 750 pound Indian bagger but on a dual sport or dirt bike it would be fun.
@@wvusmc we used to have an annual Unit reunion fishing trip at the Red Oak house at smoke hole, right near the bottom of Dolly Sods.
Once watched a drunk guy fight a tree while the cops cheered him on, on high street.
Fun Fact Morgantown is home of the mountaineers!! They burn couches on sidewalks after they win a game! Huge football fans!
That's what I hear!
I didn't know that. I have had two friends, one girl and one guy, graduate from there. The girl is now in Boise, Idaho, and the guy is in North Carolina.
Ah yes, WVU--where greatness is learned and couches are burned.
Fortunately, that tradition has gone away. It got so bad that the university was expelling any student caught doing that.
Not anymore 😞
Some predictions for next place:
1. Altoona
2. College Station (Penn State)
3. Pottsville (Yeungling and the Pottsville Maroons)
4. Centralia (coal fire since 1962)
5. Willes-Barre
6. Scranton
@@MbisonBalrog oops, got it confused with Texas.
A friend and I took the trip out to Centralia in 2019. Not much left of it but was still a cool trip. Graffiti highway was still there, but it was covered up in 2020. There are still a few people living there
I enjoy these. And you got 1 right!
@@FixIt1975 Yeah, they covered Graffiti Highway (old PA 61) with tons of sand and they enforce trespassing if you’re caught on the old road.
@@MbisonBalrog Geometric? Or geographic?
Boy does this video bring back memories.
Forgot to mention Don Knotts was from Morgantown. I’m reading his daughter’s book about her dad.
We mentioned it when we were at his statue.
Lord Spoda travels are the best....great video 🔥oh don't forget the drone shot..😎
Thank you, Russell.
I used to ride the PRT and get scared because of how deceptively fast it is and how high up you are at many parts. That thing was vital to getting to my geology class and it never seemed to have issues.
I think it's damn cool, and a great idea.
Dr. Kite? 😊
I also live in Morgantown I love it it is a beautiful place to live and be at
The PRT is a great way to get across town when it's running. Anybody that's spent any time in Morgantown will tell you it's broken down more often than not...lol
Hey 😆 I work there, we're trying to make it better. It's been slowly getting better.
Same when I was an undergrad in the mid-70s. It was out of order more often than not. And then it would suddenly stop in the middle of nowhere and have to wait for it to start again.
If you want to have the OG pepperoni roll go to Country Club bakery in Fairmont it's on Country Club Road and it is the best roll in the world. It's also the home of the original, you can call them and ask them when they will have some hot and they will let you know and they do at least two sometimes three bakes a day so you can get them fresh when they are crispy. It is totally worth it! The truck driver picks them up in the morning after the first bake and then delivers them all but by then they have been cooked for about four or five hours by noon so they are not near as good as if they were pulled out of the oven within a minute or two which you can have if you just call them first. The ones in a store are good but if you want the real experience you need to go in house.
I really enjoy your videos . Love to see you do one in Tarpon Springs Florida . Touristy ,kitschy and outstanding seafood and authentic Greek cuisine . Some beautiful homes as well as some not so beautiful homes . Low crime and a beautiful pristine beach on the Gulf of Mexico.
Thank you for the tip, Kenny. We will be heading to Florida later this year.
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip great ! Looking forward to that .
You know what's worse than driving through there in the winter? Driving through during the university's classes. I work on campus and there are literally pedestrians crossing ALL day. Not to mention, the traffic between classes as the commuters head back and forth. I drive from a small town 1.25 hours away. I travel roughly 70 miles in that time. However, it takes another half hour of university traffic to get to my workplace, which is just a two mile trip. Then, the parking 0_0...
I try to cherish the summers here as much as possible since the traffic isn’t absolutely abhorrent lol
Morgantown may be a viable alternative to Fayetteville,. AR. for me. College town vibe is important to me as are (most) college town rental rates. It's great to have that youthful energy but even better when they are on break and the town belongs to the townies! Seems the bus system is twice as used as in Fayetteville so that indicates a more robust mass transit. The one sticking point is Morgantown gets four times the snow! Thought Florida was going to be my destination for my 60s. But times have changed.
Go to Mississippi by the ocean
@@Trollingizlife That's an interesting comment.
as someone from WV Morgantown is one of our bigger cities I love my state it's a beautiful place 💙💛
Gotta come back and get the pep rolls from Chicos. They’re called “Julia’s pepperoni rolls.” Just a side note, you can order them online and get them shipped to you from their website 😊
What a pretty place. That pram is cool, we didn't have that at FSU. And the stone house was solid. Nice, but I could never drive those steep hills in the winter.
And the stone house was solid.
Literally.
Best pepperoni rolls in Morgantown are from mid-Atlantic market off Pierpont exit and from hometown bakery in Clarksburg, which are sold in gas stations
Which bakery? Tamaro's are the best I've had in recent decades, but they're hard to find in Morgantown. I don't go out to Cheat Lake much.
In your Grafton visit i got to see ky old apartment and in this one i got to see my current place of employment 😀 Thank you for these videos.
this where i live! i was probably taking the prt to class as you filmed this
LOL I loved Nicole hanging with Don Knotts 😂
you should check out st. marys and sistersville st marys has a train track running thru the middle of town and sistersville is an old town with large houses built during the oil boom
when i was a kid my favorite DON KNOTTS MOVIE WAS the shakiest gun in the west he was such a good actor i thought
he was for reel then i saw him on the tonight show with johnny carson when i was about 20 he was then the funniest man
on tv
Hey there! I work for the PRT here in Morgantown. It's mostly for the students. They're all automated cars that move students around.
It's a great idea. More places should do it. :)
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip I definitely agree. It makes getting downtown so much easier too.
🤗🍕Joe you great big Rascal! I totally thought man he didn't do the review on the pepperoni roll what the heck!🍕🤗
I have always liked Morgantown ! Morgantown is geographically located in a great area in the east. Not too far from Pittsburgh and close enough to great areas of Maryland and Virginia and Ohio ...
Me too.
Live in Morgantown and have for 35 years, love it here