Charleston, WV Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

After leaving the gorge, the New River flows west into the Ohio and eventually the Mississippi, but not before passing through CHARLESTON , West Virginia's state capital and largest city. Charleston isn't a place many people set out to visit, mainly because there's not very much to see or do; the riverfront state capitol , designed by Lincoln Memorial architect Cass Gilbert and completed in 1932, is pleasant enough, with a small monument to black activist Booker T. Washington on its grounds, but nothing really grabs you. The West Virginia Cultural Center (Mon–Thurs 9am–8pm, Fri-Sat … more »