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Tag: west virginia

  • New River Gorge National Park

    New River Gorge National Park

    This post combines activities in the New River Gorge from visits in September 2019, in May 2021, and in September 2023. The first time we visited Fayetteville, WV, in 2019, New River Gorge National Park wasn’t yet a national park! Previously designated a National River, the 70,000 acres surrounding the New River (actually one of the…

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  • One night in Fayetteville, WV (visit #4)–Five Days in the Mountains

    One night in Fayetteville, WV (visit #4)–Five Days in the Mountains

    We visited Fayetteville in September 2023, as part of our Five Days in the Mountains trip. Read about our previous visits here: Fall 2019, Spring 2021, and late Summer 2022. We spent the first night of a whirlwind Airstream tour through the mountains near home in Fayetteville, WV, home of New River Gorge National Park.…

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  • One night in Lewisburg, WV

    One night in Lewisburg, WV

    We visited Lewisburg in April 2023, as part of our Spring in the mountains quickie. We left Seneca Rocks a day earlier than expected to cut a chunk from the longish drive to Asheville, the final stop on our spring Airstream trip. While hiking up to Chimney Top (where we had some cell service to…

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  • One night in Seneca Rocks, WV

    One night in Seneca Rocks, WV

    We visited Seneca Rocks in April 2023, as part of our Spring in the mountains quickie. From White Sulphur Springs it was a scenic drive north to Seneca Rocks, with no cell service pretty much the entire way thanks to the NRAO. As I mentioned last post, be sure to download anything internetty you might…

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  • One night in White Sulphur Springs, WV

    One night in White Sulphur Springs, WV

    We visited White Sulphur Springs in April 2023, as part of our Spring in the mountains quickie. If you read our planning post for this little trip, you would have seen that our plan was to first spend 2 days in Seneca Rocks, then one day somewhere on the way to Asheville, and finally two…

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  • Trip planning: Spring quickie to the mountains

    Trip planning: Spring quickie to the mountains

    We went on this little trip in April 2023. This post has been edited to include where we actually went! We haven’t had the Airstream out since November (despite only finishing the Big Trip #4 posts just a few weeks ago–it took us a while to write everything up!), and we’re itching to hit the…

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  • One night in Fayetteville, WV (visit #3) – Big Trip #4

    One night in Fayetteville, WV (visit #3) – Big Trip #4

    We were in Fayetteville in August 2022, as part of Big Trip #4. Read about our most recent visit in 2023, our previous visit in 2021 and our first visit in 2019, not to be confused with our 2018 stop in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Fayetteville was a last minute addition to our Big Trip #4 itinerary.…

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  • Two nights in Fayetteville, WV (visit #2)–RV Caravan with Friends trip

    Two nights in Fayetteville, WV (visit #2)–RV Caravan with Friends trip

    We visited Fayetteville in May 2021 during our RV Caravan with Friends trip. This was our second visit; read about our first trip to Fayetteville (WV, not AR, that was a different trip) here, our third trip in 2022 here, and our fourth trip in 2023 here. The final group stop on our caravan trip…

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  • Trip planning: NC/WV/VA RV caravan with friends!

    Trip planning: NC/WV/VA RV caravan with friends!

    Oh boy! This will be a different kind of trip for us! While we’re mostly spending time in places we’ve been before, we’re doing it in a new way: our besties have rented an RV and will be parking next to us! We finally convinced our friends to try RVing and they’re hooked. She has…

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  • Three days in Fayetteville, WV–Misty Mountain Week trip

    Three days in Fayetteville, WV–Misty Mountain Week trip

    We were in Fayetteville in September 2019; we also visited Asheville and the Misty Mountain Music Festival on this week away. Read about our second visit in 2021 here, our third visit in 2022 here, and our fourth visit in 2023 here! After Asheville, the next stop on our way to the Misty Mountain Music…

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