Charleston is the capital and largest city of the state of West Virginia. Charleston is situated in the western part of West Virginia, along the Kanawha River. It serves as the county seat of Kanawha County. Charleston’s 2019 population was 46,536.
The General Adam Stephen House is a 1770s colonial-style house museum furnished with period pieces. The Triple Brick Museum next door is an artifact museum related to archaeology on the property and to the early cultural history of the town.
The New River Gorge Bridge is a steel arch bridge 3,030 feet long over the New River Gorge near Fayetteville, West Virginia, in the Appalachian Mountains.
Cass Scenic Railroad State Park offers excursions that transport you back in time to relive an era when steam-driven locomotives were an essential part of everyday life.
Located at the extreme tip of West Virginia's northern panhandle, Tomlinson Run provides a wide range of recreational opportunites to a large number of local and out-of-state visitors.
