Monroe County West Virginia

Monroe County…with sparse population and without a four-lane highway, traffic light, or fast food restaurant, Monroe County, West Virginia, offers tourists a place to Get Real! This rural, agricultural community has retained and enhanced many of the characteristics of previous times. It is still possible to have an authentic and memorable experience in this scenic country county!

Here grandparents can teach the grandchildren how to drop a line into a sparkling fishing stream.

Here travelers can step back in time and visit restored covered bridges, old grain and blacksmith mills, historic churches and cemeteries, and historic mineral springs resort hotels.

Here, with access to the Appalachian Trail, Jefferson National Forest, Moncove Lake State Park, and the Hanging Rock Observatory atop Peters Mountain (where hawk and eagle counts take place every fall), all ages and stages of those who love the outdoors can be engaged.

Here winding byway routes travel through distinct geographical settings: the quaint winding courses of Indian, Second, Rich, Cove, Potts, and Hans Creeks; the gently rolling plateaus of karst farmland; and the picturesque valleys, nestled along the lofty ridges of the Appalachian Mountains.

Here people greet each other, wave at strangers passing by in their cars, and enjoy a simpler lifestyle of safe communities with deep traditions and heritage.

Get Real! In a place called Monroe!