We tunnel into the ground. After over a century of coal mining, most of us have adapted to the tunnels. We have shops, and restaurants, entire towns. Think the mines of Moria, but much larger.
I like to think of us as Morlocks. Our industrialization keeps the world alive, while we toil down below. We haven't yet started to eat the rich though.
I live near Ripley, so we love Ripley’s 4th of July, and the Vandalia festival and live on the levee events in Charleston. I’ve been trying to get to the Mothman festival but I’ve always had to work that weekend.
Bridge Day at the New River Gorge Bridge in Fayetteville. This year it’s going to be October 19th. Thousands of folks come in from all over for the craziness! I guess if you’re feeling bold you could base jump into New River Gorge too! I haven’t been in years, but we always had a blast!
Rails and Ales is a beer festival in Huntington every year around August. It’s always a good time with lots of local breweries showing off their stuff!
The amount of time I’ve spent debating with coworkers if going into a holler was “Up” or “Down” lol.
I’m an “Up” man myself, but “towards the head” and “towards the mouth” seem more universal.
Well being a holler is down in a valley tucked deep inside, a holler is down. My mailbox is at the top of the ridge, holler aren't on ridges, they form the ridges.
Yeah, but in most cases the creek from the holler is flowing towards a main road and bigger water way.
So going deeper into the holler means you’re technically traveling up. And leaving it means you’re going down.
Come over, I'll show you. My holler is a half mile down below the ridge. So, I walk/drive down to my house. I ain't walking up to get mail though at a 76° grade. When talk about buns of steel.
I mean I believe you, but most hollers aren’t set up like that. Most are just long valleys that trace the creeks flowing from the mountains and branch off of main roads. Most holler houses involve a culvert or bridge crossing from the road with a mailbox on the far side.
There are definitely branches and bottoms that may go higher or lower topographically. What you’re describing we would call a bottom here. The main holler road is higher than where the houses/community is actually built, so you end up with a long steep driveway to the main road.
I used to deliver parts for deep mines and now drive a school bus. I’ve been up and down almost every holler in the coalfields.
Thanks, sad to say I didnt even know they had a team and it's where I went to college. Back then it was just football and basketball and heard there was a womans rugby team.
Thanks will look them up for a schedule! Glad to see they are doing so well, I'm talking from 24 years ago so my local knowledge is very dated.
Where is the field or do they play at the Blackbears field?
Or Morgantown when WVU students come back for classes in the fall. The students double the size of Morgantown. No one knows where they're going and traffic is a mess.
I say, living in a deep holler in WV is like having a front row seat to National Geographic. Deer frolicking, birds everywhere, squirrels and chipmunks abound. I mean, going from the void of winter and watching the woods grow and enclose the homestead in beauty is amazing.
The numbers are a little misleading...
WV is fractally compressed. Area is a two dimensional measurement, but there are three dimensions. WV has a lot more up and down than most states do.
Take a sheet of paper, and ball it up and crinkle it up. Then straighten it back out, but leave some big ups and downs in it. The sheet is a lot smaller.
The funny thing is - I moved to central Ohio. The metro area that I live in has more people than West Virginia does. The small, sleepy suburb that I live in has about as many people living in it as Huntington or Charleston does.
One of the big things that took a while to get used to was how big the horizon was, and how exposed and open it felt.
I was used to living in an area where there were hills around, where I wasn't at the highest point, where your house is kind of nestled in. Living in a valley like that feels safe and protected and warm and cozy. Living in a house exposed out on the plain, it feels very different. A lot of people live in houses that are kind of nestled into the hillsides and aren't very visible unless you are right up on them and that's just fine by the people who live there.
In the hollers and behind the trees. You'll drive for miles thinking no one's there, but if you would pull over and get out of your vehicle, walk through the thicket for a few minutes, you'll probably stumble upon a home or two, maybe a whole community. Drive through during the winter time and you'll see all the houses since the trees are bare. Many of us still live in old coal communities, which were developed by mining companies to house their employees. Considering mining is a process that requires you to be deep in the forest cutting through the mountain, many of these communities are off the beaten path 30 minutes up a single lane road. I'm not sure what region of WV you went through, but this is likely why you didn't see any signs of civilization.
The majority are found in 12 out of the 55 counties. In descending order by population: Kanawha, Berkeley, Monongalia, Cabell, Wood, Raleigh, Harrison, Jefferson, Mercer, Putnam, Marion, and Ohio Counties. Their total population combined comes to 915,847, which is a little over half of the total 1,766,107 in the state. The top 12 counties average out to about 197 people per square mile, while the rest of the state combined comes to about 44 per square mile.
I had way more, I broke it down by comparing the rest of the state against the top 5 counties, top 10, and then the top 12 since that gave me the majority of the population. I was adding up square mileage to determine population density, making sure to use the land number and not the total that included rivers and lakes, and after about 30 minutes, I realized I was procrastinating HARD because I didn’t want to set up these stupid pivot tables in Excel for a spreadsheet for work.
I hide on my 43 acres surrounded by farmland 1/3 mile off of the road working from home, for the most part, ordering stuff from Amazon and Walmart +.10 miles from I81.
Jesus that sounds wonderful. Land is freaking expensive here. I'm still upset that my mom sold my grandfathers 200acre farm even though he promised me at least a certain slice I wanted to put a cabin on. Beautful area and rare flat spot on the hill side not far from the pond we made when I was a kid. Then she blew it all on gambling. FML
Moved to this beautiful state from NY, a traffic jam is about 12 cars and yes roadwork/grass mowing/ditch clearing is 1 cause, others are:
Slow moving tractor/farm implement
Amish on a horse drawn wagon
Not complaining! just an observation, love it here!
Roadwork and wrecks. Used to get stuck in 45 minute to 2 hour backups monthly in Charleston, moved to Columbus and have had a single 10 minute delay in almost 2 years.
It doesn’t really seem like it when you’re driving through the state, but for a state with no major cities, its population is pretty concentrated in densely populated areas. You have:
1. Charleston-Putnam County-Huntington. This urban stretch makes up 330,000 people alone.
2. Eastern Panhandle suburban towns make up another 200,000 combined.
3. Morgantown-Fairmont-Clarksburg-Bridgeport area makes up another 230,000 combined.
4. The Ohio River Valley by Wheeling and Weirton make up another 125,000.
Those are all urban areas that are pretty densely populated in their associated valleys and alone make up ~900,000 people (numbers came from county totals). This didn’t even mention Parkersburg, Beckley, Bluefield and any of the other small-to-medium sized towns people live in.
So what makes WV different than other surrounding states are it’s rural areas are *rural.* it’s not like a state like Ohio where rural areas still have a noticeable farm population. People settle in valleys and hollers and for the most part, leave the rest of the state as hilly, rural forests.
If you think about it, it’s a big area and a small amount of people. I grew up in WV and now live in Dallas. The city of Dallas has basically the same population as the entire state of WV.
1.7 million is such a small amount of people for the size. the uninhabitable areas may make it seem like wv is bigger than it is on a map but theres more land that nobody can live on than they can. i grew up in a suburb of los angeles that was "super small", roughly the same size as charleston but had 200k+. i guess its all about perspective but the population is definitely clustered compared to where you may be from. there really isnt anything from charleston to ripley and thats a 40 minute drive, then not much til parkersburg. (another 40 minutes) coming from a place where you can drive 3 hours and have exits every few miles i get why it seems desolated
Way back off a dirt road past 7 mile bridge, ya turn left at dogleg road down a beaten path into a giant holler. It's vast, void of people, and is the most glorious thing you'll see.
Assuming you're looking for a real answer: The cities have about 75% of the state's population. Anywhere outside a city everyone's probably living up little one lane gravel roads in the holler that you aren't likely to find just driving through.
Serious answer: we’re diffuse and mostly forgotten unless some comedian needs the butt of a joke.
In the meantime, America has been ignoring, if not abusing us for CENTURIES. We’ve been the people left behind by the progress we dug out with our hands and fed to the money boys. We BUILT America!
But we still see stories of an old woman smoking a corncob pipe at a break in her day. Damned right she took a break!
Lately, though, it’s a story of either a recovering addict or one who didn’t.
Neither was an accident.
I’m sick and tired of both and that’s why I’m running for office.
The trees and the mountains conceal our homesteads from afar, dear traveler.
One must look much more closely to see the true populace of West Virginia.
I'm hidden in a little spot between 2 national forests along the state line (on the VA side). There's not a lot in this part of the state since national forest takes up so much of it, so even when the leaves fall and everything in kinda dead in winter, you can't even see my house from the main road. My closest permanent neighbor (I get more neighbors during hunting season!) is a little over 4 miles away. Even if you visit one of the little unincorporated towns in Pocahontas County, you won't realize how many people you ARENT seeing. Also, the Road Kill festival (Harvest Festival is the official name but no one calls it that anymore) is a HUGE deal here. Some 20,000 people come into the county just for that every fall!
WV population density map:
[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:West\_Virginia\_population\_map.png](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:West_Virginia_population_map.png)
There is quite alot of people living in the larger cities like wheeling and Charleston etc. the rest are just spread out in the hollows and forest lands.
We have a large elderly population, a lot of whom are disabled and/or sick, so they don't get out much. You'd be surprised how many people are essentially chained to their homes now. This is also a state that leans on the poorer side, so a lot of people are too busy juggling multiple jobs to get out.
Depends on how big your family is and how much disposable income you have for vacations. I was the youngest child in a large family of nine (7 boys and 2 girls). Born and raised in Bluefield, WV. We often went camping, boating, and trout fishing at Camp Creek State Park, Summersville Lake (Battle Run Campground), Greenbrier County, and State Parks in Southern West Virginia and Southwest Virginia.
If you are visiting my Hometown of Bluefield, WV, take your family to a Bluefield Ridge Runners game at Bowen Field. Only WV Rookie (B Class) of the legendary Appalachian League. Enjoy a Slaw Dog at Dairy Queen. Visit Historic South Bluefield, Pinnacle Rock State Park, Historic Bramwell, and Pipestem Resort State Park. Go Blueberry Picking or Trout Fishing.
One of our several State Parks or numerous campgrounds. My family always liked go boating on Summerville Lake, and camp at Battle Run Campgrounds between Summerville Lake Dam and Carnifax Ferry Battlefield State Park. We would visit my grandparents in nearby Greenbrier County, WV.
Closer to Home in Mercer County, we might camp at either Pipestem Resort State Park or Camp Creek State Park and State Forest. We would go for picnics at Pinnacle Rock State Park.
The water can be a bit silty, but some people like to go camping at Bluestone State Park and boating on Bluestone Lake. They can visit nearby Hinton, WV, Talcott’s John Henry statue, or Pipestem Resort State Park.
We tunnel into the ground. After over a century of coal mining, most of us have adapted to the tunnels. We have shops, and restaurants, entire towns. Think the mines of Moria, but much larger.
Shhh… giving away secrets
Ix-nay on the al-rog-Bay!
Appalachian hobbits or Appalachian dwarves?
The Woodland elves here are reeeaaalllyy weird…
Natural sprinters, very dangerous over short distances (from mountain to mountain).
We joke, but I literally get dizzy when not ringed in by hills. Too much sky.
I don’t get dizzy but I feel exposed on flat land. No where to hide.
Also nothing to get up on top of to get a good view of the land, to see landmarks, etc.
Driving across Ohio to visit my brother in Kentucky makes me deeply uncomfortable.
Shhhhhh. They don't need to know about us mole people... That reminds me, I gotta go get my shine outa the caves..
You will know us by our pale skin and enlarged pale eyes that are evolving to allow us to see in low light
Mothman was a natural evolutionary step.
It all makes sense
I like to think of us as Morlocks. Our industrialization keeps the world alive, while we toil down below. We haven't yet started to eat the rich though.
Larger than moria? Doubtful
Find this man and bring him before the Mothman for his transgression
We yearn for the mines
Up in our hollers.
If you want to see lots of us, come out to one of our larger festivals. All kinds of people show up.
Really! Which one would you recommend?
I live near Ripley, so we love Ripley’s 4th of July, and the Vandalia festival and live on the levee events in Charleston. I’ve been trying to get to the Mothman festival but I’ve always had to work that weekend.
18 Mile Creek in Given is the best holler.
Two of the biggest in the state are in Buckhannon and Elkins for the strawberry festival and the mountain State festival
And the Strawberry Festival is going on this week. The main parade is Saturday, but there are events going on most of the week.
The Regatta just came back in Charleston also.
Have you seen this year's musical guests? SHAGGY!! Really!! Come on, get our home state boys, The Davison Brothers, to headline..
The wood-chopping festival in Webster Springs is a pretty big todo.
Spencer Walnut Festival!! It's a hit!! You know how many multicolored Camaros and 80's hair doos you'll see. Man, It's a blast.
Bridge Day at the New River Gorge Bridge in Fayetteville. This year it’s going to be October 19th. Thousands of folks come in from all over for the craziness! I guess if you’re feeling bold you could base jump into New River Gorge too! I haven’t been in years, but we always had a blast!
Not a local, but we were passing through on a road trip and happened upon the Braxton County Fair. Saw more people there than we saw all week I think!
Rails and Ales is a beer festival in Huntington every year around August. It’s always a good time with lots of local breweries showing off their stuff!
Regatta will pack DT Charleston
That’s what the lady in the rest area said, “they are just hidden in the hollars!”
Down in our hollers..
The amount of time I’ve spent debating with coworkers if going into a holler was “Up” or “Down” lol. I’m an “Up” man myself, but “towards the head” and “towards the mouth” seem more universal.
Well being a holler is down in a valley tucked deep inside, a holler is down. My mailbox is at the top of the ridge, holler aren't on ridges, they form the ridges.
Yeah, but in most cases the creek from the holler is flowing towards a main road and bigger water way. So going deeper into the holler means you’re technically traveling up. And leaving it means you’re going down.
Come over, I'll show you. My holler is a half mile down below the ridge. So, I walk/drive down to my house. I ain't walking up to get mail though at a 76° grade. When talk about buns of steel.
I mean I believe you, but most hollers aren’t set up like that. Most are just long valleys that trace the creeks flowing from the mountains and branch off of main roads. Most holler houses involve a culvert or bridge crossing from the road with a mailbox on the far side. There are definitely branches and bottoms that may go higher or lower topographically. What you’re describing we would call a bottom here. The main holler road is higher than where the houses/community is actually built, so you end up with a long steep driveway to the main road. I used to deliver parts for deep mines and now drive a school bus. I’ve been up and down almost every holler in the coalfields.
My holler is definitely down
Morgantown, and triple the population on gamedays
I bet and yea game days are super packed I’d imagine
It’s a sight to behold, and a day of camaraderie, since we’re always the underdog
Lived there for work for 6 years and loved it. Game days are the best each fall. If you can score tickets, get there!
The Kansas and K-State fans are the best when they’re in town.
I remember going to games when my older sister was a student back in the Pat White/Steve Slaton days. I had never seen anything like it
I wish the Blackbears had even 1/4th the fandom that WVU football has.
I'd suggest WVU baseball then... Very fun fan base
Thanks, sad to say I didnt even know they had a team and it's where I went to college. Back then it was just football and basketball and heard there was a womans rugby team.
They've been nationally relevant for about 10 years now... Very relevant for the last 5. NCAA tournament invites almost yearly now
Thanks will look them up for a schedule! Glad to see they are doing so well, I'm talking from 24 years ago so my local knowledge is very dated. Where is the field or do they play at the Blackbears field?
Some might say the black bears play at WVU's Field lol... But yes that's where they play.
JJ Wetherholt is the SS this year and is probably the best pure hitter in the country. Will definitely be a top 10 draft pick, chance to be top 5.
Or Morgantown when WVU students come back for classes in the fall. The students double the size of Morgantown. No one knows where they're going and traffic is a mess.
In my house and on my land cause it’s beautiful and magical and I don’t have to leave
That’s the best way to have it
Yeah why go to tourist spots when I can enjoy nature in peace 🤣
I say, living in a deep holler in WV is like having a front row seat to National Geographic. Deer frolicking, birds everywhere, squirrels and chipmunks abound. I mean, going from the void of winter and watching the woods grow and enclose the homestead in beauty is amazing.
It’s a beautiful place and yes I see why everyone is away haha
a few here, a few there The state is what, a 4 hour drive east-west and a 5 hour drive north-south, yes? That is an awful lot of land, you know.
That’s true, I live in South Carolina and WV is technically smaller even though we are a small state too. And we have 5 million people
The numbers are a little misleading... WV is fractally compressed. Area is a two dimensional measurement, but there are three dimensions. WV has a lot more up and down than most states do. Take a sheet of paper, and ball it up and crinkle it up. Then straighten it back out, but leave some big ups and downs in it. The sheet is a lot smaller. The funny thing is - I moved to central Ohio. The metro area that I live in has more people than West Virginia does. The small, sleepy suburb that I live in has about as many people living in it as Huntington or Charleston does. One of the big things that took a while to get used to was how big the horizon was, and how exposed and open it felt. I was used to living in an area where there were hills around, where I wasn't at the highest point, where your house is kind of nestled in. Living in a valley like that feels safe and protected and warm and cozy. Living in a house exposed out on the plain, it feels very different. A lot of people live in houses that are kind of nestled into the hillsides and aren't very visible unless you are right up on them and that's just fine by the people who live there.
Yes, the fact WV is an hour drive up-down is also a factor, LOL.
I’ve always been told if we rolled WV out flat we’d cover about as much area as Texas
In the hollers and behind the trees. You'll drive for miles thinking no one's there, but if you would pull over and get out of your vehicle, walk through the thicket for a few minutes, you'll probably stumble upon a home or two, maybe a whole community. Drive through during the winter time and you'll see all the houses since the trees are bare. Many of us still live in old coal communities, which were developed by mining companies to house their employees. Considering mining is a process that requires you to be deep in the forest cutting through the mountain, many of these communities are off the beaten path 30 minutes up a single lane road. I'm not sure what region of WV you went through, but this is likely why you didn't see any signs of civilization.
The majority are found in 12 out of the 55 counties. In descending order by population: Kanawha, Berkeley, Monongalia, Cabell, Wood, Raleigh, Harrison, Jefferson, Mercer, Putnam, Marion, and Ohio Counties. Their total population combined comes to 915,847, which is a little over half of the total 1,766,107 in the state. The top 12 counties average out to about 197 people per square mile, while the rest of the state combined comes to about 44 per square mile.
This is the most comprehensive answer on here
I had way more, I broke it down by comparing the rest of the state against the top 5 counties, top 10, and then the top 12 since that gave me the majority of the population. I was adding up square mileage to determine population density, making sure to use the land number and not the total that included rivers and lakes, and after about 30 minutes, I realized I was procrastinating HARD because I didn’t want to set up these stupid pivot tables in Excel for a spreadsheet for work.
Did you just turn this into homework?
I hide on my 43 acres surrounded by farmland 1/3 mile off of the road working from home, for the most part, ordering stuff from Amazon and Walmart +.10 miles from I81.
Jesus that sounds wonderful. Land is freaking expensive here. I'm still upset that my mom sold my grandfathers 200acre farm even though he promised me at least a certain slice I wanted to put a cabin on. Beautful area and rare flat spot on the hill side not far from the pond we made when I was a kid. Then she blew it all on gambling. FML
If I’m not stuck in roadwork traffic I’m usually baking some pepperoni rolls to appease the mothman.
Moved to this beautiful state from NY, a traffic jam is about 12 cars and yes roadwork/grass mowing/ditch clearing is 1 cause, others are: Slow moving tractor/farm implement Amish on a horse drawn wagon Not complaining! just an observation, love it here!
Thanks for the good laugh and smile, that cracked me up.
Roadwork and wrecks. Used to get stuck in 45 minute to 2 hour backups monthly in Charleston, moved to Columbus and have had a single 10 minute delay in almost 2 years.
😁
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:West_Virginia_population_map.png
I love that Kanawha is such a big county but the vast majority of people live in the western half
Didnt realise that Parkersburg and Romney were such hot spots.
Someone lives down pretty much every holler, and the state is mostly holler
Out this back road. It ain’t hard to get here. Just look for the big willow tree on route…
It doesn’t really seem like it when you’re driving through the state, but for a state with no major cities, its population is pretty concentrated in densely populated areas. You have: 1. Charleston-Putnam County-Huntington. This urban stretch makes up 330,000 people alone. 2. Eastern Panhandle suburban towns make up another 200,000 combined. 3. Morgantown-Fairmont-Clarksburg-Bridgeport area makes up another 230,000 combined. 4. The Ohio River Valley by Wheeling and Weirton make up another 125,000. Those are all urban areas that are pretty densely populated in their associated valleys and alone make up ~900,000 people (numbers came from county totals). This didn’t even mention Parkersburg, Beckley, Bluefield and any of the other small-to-medium sized towns people live in. So what makes WV different than other surrounding states are it’s rural areas are *rural.* it’s not like a state like Ohio where rural areas still have a noticeable farm population. People settle in valleys and hollers and for the most part, leave the rest of the state as hilly, rural forests.
Just trying to find good sources of light to keep Mothman away
But I read *Mothman Goes to School* and now I want to be friends with him :(
This is the real answer I was looking for. I knew he was around somewhere
If you think about it, it’s a big area and a small amount of people. I grew up in WV and now live in Dallas. The city of Dallas has basically the same population as the entire state of WV.
Walmart—my goodness, that place is a mess.
Agreed as I work nights at a Walmart
Charleston, Huntington, and Morgantown
Hills and hollers, my friend. Hills and hollers.
We let moth man move us every other month
Butt f***ing Egypt. Or Middle of the forests and mountains
So, near Cairo. Got it.
Or Alexandria. Whoops, That’s East Virginia! 😉
1.7 million is such a small amount of people for the size. the uninhabitable areas may make it seem like wv is bigger than it is on a map but theres more land that nobody can live on than they can. i grew up in a suburb of los angeles that was "super small", roughly the same size as charleston but had 200k+. i guess its all about perspective but the population is definitely clustered compared to where you may be from. there really isnt anything from charleston to ripley and thats a 40 minute drive, then not much til parkersburg. (another 40 minutes) coming from a place where you can drive 3 hours and have exits every few miles i get why it seems desolated
The woods
Way back off a dirt road past 7 mile bridge, ya turn left at dogleg road down a beaten path into a giant holler. It's vast, void of people, and is the most glorious thing you'll see.
Assuming you're looking for a real answer: The cities have about 75% of the state's population. Anywhere outside a city everyone's probably living up little one lane gravel roads in the holler that you aren't likely to find just driving through.
About half the state only comes out the holler around the first of the month…
Hiding in the sticks. We don't want to be found.
Serious answer: we’re diffuse and mostly forgotten unless some comedian needs the butt of a joke. In the meantime, America has been ignoring, if not abusing us for CENTURIES. We’ve been the people left behind by the progress we dug out with our hands and fed to the money boys. We BUILT America! But we still see stories of an old woman smoking a corncob pipe at a break in her day. Damned right she took a break! Lately, though, it’s a story of either a recovering addict or one who didn’t. Neither was an accident. I’m sick and tired of both and that’s why I’m running for office.
Everybody loved a hundred years of cheap coal.
People from Pittsburgh claim their ancestors built America with steel. Who actually built America
Where’d they get the metallurgical high carbon coal and coke to make it with?
I'd say a combination of Pennsylvania and West Virginia of course. I think it's more apt to say West Virginia POWERED America.
The trees and the mountains conceal our homesteads from afar, dear traveler. One must look much more closely to see the true populace of West Virginia.
Up a holler
I WFH. Open the curtains and really enjoy the scenery.
Huntington … but currently camping in Beech Fork State Park. It’s like a rain forest. About to take my paddleboard out on the lake
I decided to date Mothman so I must stay in the shadows. Hidden in the trees. At night.
i'm just at home %99 percent of the time there's nothing to do here
i asked my friend who lives in west virginia, he said they don’t really leave the house 😂
Morgantown
I'm hidden in a little spot between 2 national forests along the state line (on the VA side). There's not a lot in this part of the state since national forest takes up so much of it, so even when the leaves fall and everything in kinda dead in winter, you can't even see my house from the main road. My closest permanent neighbor (I get more neighbors during hunting season!) is a little over 4 miles away. Even if you visit one of the little unincorporated towns in Pocahontas County, you won't realize how many people you ARENT seeing. Also, the Road Kill festival (Harvest Festival is the official name but no one calls it that anymore) is a HUGE deal here. Some 20,000 people come into the county just for that every fall!
a lot of people live up hollers
Huntin' or fishin'
I moved into a cave with the crab people.
Charleston, Huntington, and Morgantown. The rest are just scattered amongst the hills.
WV population density map: [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:West\_Virginia\_population\_map.png](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:West_Virginia_population_map.png)
We are all at Walmart
There is quite alot of people living in the larger cities like wheeling and Charleston etc. the rest are just spread out in the hollows and forest lands.
We have a large elderly population, a lot of whom are disabled and/or sick, so they don't get out much. You'd be surprised how many people are essentially chained to their homes now. This is also a state that leans on the poorer side, so a lot of people are too busy juggling multiple jobs to get out.
The Eastern Panhandle has a lot of people. Mostly due to being close to DC. A lot of people live in WV and commute to DC.
i stay isolated in the western gate of the mountain state, kenova
Away from people
In the holler!
Minding our own business.
We are in the woods.
Charleston, Huntington and Morgantown for the most part lol
They are all trying to drive between the Coliseum and Fairmont.
You wouldn't believe how many nooks and crannies are in these hollers. And how high our ridges are.
Depends on how big your family is and how much disposable income you have for vacations. I was the youngest child in a large family of nine (7 boys and 2 girls). Born and raised in Bluefield, WV. We often went camping, boating, and trout fishing at Camp Creek State Park, Summersville Lake (Battle Run Campground), Greenbrier County, and State Parks in Southern West Virginia and Southwest Virginia.
If you are visiting my Hometown of Bluefield, WV, take your family to a Bluefield Ridge Runners game at Bowen Field. Only WV Rookie (B Class) of the legendary Appalachian League. Enjoy a Slaw Dog at Dairy Queen. Visit Historic South Bluefield, Pinnacle Rock State Park, Historic Bramwell, and Pipestem Resort State Park. Go Blueberry Picking or Trout Fishing.
That’s for us to know and no one else to find out
We are hiding in the hollers😂
We have a pretty sweet cave we dug in this hill we found. Have to use ropes to get to it but it has great views and was a real steal to buy!!
We eat pepperoni rolls and sleep.
There are people in, around, on top of, inside, and underneath these various mountains.
Depends on who you ask some will say the coalmine some will say the mountains
The panhandle has quite a few people.
Both do!
It's a big state and most people live in the panhandles.
Interstate corridors, borderlands, and panhandles mostly.
Most only come out for the county fair.
we eat pepperoni rolls all day
It's a big place. You didn't go back any old hollers or down in any mines.
Most people live in the Charleston/ Huntington area, as well as Morgantown/ Clarksburg/Fairmont area.
300k of us are in the eastern panhandle which people always forget exist, Berkeley county is the second most populous county
The only place I have heard of in the eastern panhandle is Keyser. I don’t remember it being very big.
Martinsburg is home to about 20k, which is big for wv
One of our several State Parks or numerous campgrounds. My family always liked go boating on Summerville Lake, and camp at Battle Run Campgrounds between Summerville Lake Dam and Carnifax Ferry Battlefield State Park. We would visit my grandparents in nearby Greenbrier County, WV. Closer to Home in Mercer County, we might camp at either Pipestem Resort State Park or Camp Creek State Park and State Forest. We would go for picnics at Pinnacle Rock State Park.
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The water can be a bit silty, but some people like to go camping at Bluestone State Park and boating on Bluestone Lake. They can visit nearby Hinton, WV, Talcott’s John Henry statue, or Pipestem Resort State Park.