Things To Do
Morgantown Farmers Market
This Saturday market is one of the area's better farmers markets, and some of our friends sell there. Worth a visit.
Atomic Grill
This BBQ place sources much of its meat from local farmers, including Hawthorne Valley Farm and other friends of ours. Delicious too!
Chestnut Brew Works, LLC
A solid choice for locally-brewed beers.
Coopers Rock State Forest
The post-wedding brunch will be here, but it's worth a separate trip. The overlook and the Rock City trails are amazing.
Rising Creek Bakery and Cafe
This country bakery was started by our friend Sam's mom and is built around the area's generations-old tradition of making salt-rising bread. She spent years interviewing women about their salt-rising bread recipes, which are based on a homemade starter, and even wrote a book about it! The bakery is under different management now, but it still worth a trip.
Pricketts Fort State Park
This reconstructed "living history" fort is a bit outside Morgantown, but is a fun way to learn bout early pioneer life in West Virginia, especially for kids. Costumed interpreters do live demonstrations of spinning, blacksmithing and more. Call ahead or check their website to find out what will be going on.
Morgantown History Museum
This rather humble museum is actually jam-packed with interesting history about Morgantown and the surrounding area.
Arthurdale Historic District
We're a little bit obsessed with Arthurdale, a homestead community created by in the 1930's as part of the New Deal. The purpose of the community was to resettle poor families, especially displaced miners, and to provide them with land so that they could be more economically self sufficient. Families who were selected by the government to live in Arthurdale's "subsistence homesteads" received a small plot and a house equipped with amenities such as a woodstove and a root cellar. Today there's a museum and craft store, and you can see many of the houses which are still occupied.
Fallingwater - Frank Lloyd Wright house
Built on top of a waterfall, this remarkable feat of architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright is actually a good bit outside of Morgantown, but makes a great day trip.
Ohiopyle, Cheat River and White Water Rafting
If you're new to whitewater rafting, Ohiopyle is a family friendly rafting area with lower-level rapids on the Youghiogheny River. There are several rafting tour outfitters located in Ohiopyle including Laurel Highlands Rafting, linked below. The Cheat River offers more challenging rapids that are closer to Morgantown, and some of the same companies offer tours there as well.