Jay Young’s surreal take on West Virginia’s landscapes and legends.
West Virginia is full of wild, scenic beauty and adventures waiting around every bend in the road. Find your next destination here and start packing the car.
Mountain State Monsters
Highland Profiles: Jennie Smith
Leading the charge to protect West Virginia’s rivers and communities.
Flash Dance
The science, magic, and mystery behind the Mountain State’s fireflies.
For Peat’s Sake
Inside the Dobbin Slashings Preserve, a vast and fragile wetland shaped by history and safeguarded for the future.
Run What Ya Brung
A rowdy, anything-goes bike competition where skill, creativity, and crowd energy collide.
Taking Flight: The Spruce Knob Kite Festival
Inside a high-elevation festival filled with giant kites, science, and summer magic.
Working Hard or Hardly Working?
Inside the volunteer tradition that keeps the New River Gorge’s climbing culture thriving.
Highland Profiles: Carol Woody
How one nonprofit is breaking barriers to make West Virginia’s outdoors accessible to all.
Net Positive
Nate Arndt turned a family fire into a flight plan for handcrafted fishing nets.
Camping With Ghosts: West Virginia’s Civil War Sites
A journey through high-elevation battlefields that helped shape the Mountain State.
The Unknown
Surveying the Subterranean Frontier
Homegrown Art
How Rosalie Haizlett and Octavia Spriggs turn Appalachia’s landscapes and ecosystems into art that inspires conservation.
