Event Planners’ Guide to West Virginia
As the classic John Denver song says, country roads, the Blue Ridge Mountains, and the Shenandoah River make West Virginia “almost heaven.” The Mountain State offers planners many opportunities for outdoor adventures, including along the Appalachian Trail and Hatfield-McCoy Trails. Numerous parts of the state are near major metropolitan areas: the Eastern Panhandle borders Maryland and Virginia and is part of the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area; Wheeling is about an hour south of Pittsburgh, Pa.; and Huntington is part of a seven-county metropolitan area that includes cities in the neighboring states of Kentucky and Ohio.
