There are no national PARKS in West Virginia, but there are some lovely areas administered by the National Parks Service. Also some nice area within national forests, as well as state parks.
Virginia has 35 state parks.
Some parks in Virginia include Shenandoah National Park, Great Falls Park, and Virginia Beach State Park.
Jobs in the coal industry are plentiful in West Virginia. it is also a good state for working in the agricultural industry. It is a big tobacco growing state.
At the time, the Civil War was still occurring. When West Virginia became a separate state, the Confederacy lost land and important railroads.
no Whoever put this failure of an awnser deserves to be beaten for the rest of their life.....now....no, there are no deserts in west virginia, sorry ^_^.
West Virginia was a part of Virginia until after the Civil War started, so technically at the start of the war what would become West Virginia was in the Confederacy. However, West Virginia separated itself form Virginia to join the Union as a free state, so West Virginia was aligned with the North after it came to exist as a separate political entity from Virginia.
It has no Official state beverage but it does have a State Fruit so try some Apple juice.
Virginia has 36 state parks with more than 500 miles of hiking, hundreds of rentable cabins and thousands of camp sites. What's available depends on the park, but options include beaches on the east coast, mountains on the west coast, and lakes and rivers in-between. In addition to hiking, some parks have fishing, boating, canoeing, mountain biking and kayaking available. Larger parks also have events, usually focused on nature or history.
The western counties of Virginia broke away, and formed West Virginia.
West Virginia was once part of Virginia. When Virginia declared secession from the United States to become part of the Confederacy, the counties in northwestern Virginia voted to secede from Virginia and remain loyal to the United States. That area of Virginia became West Virginia. West Virginia became the 35th U.S. state on June 20, 1863.
There are many parks and campgrounds ranging from state park to common camp grounds. Chippokes Plantation State Park in Surry, Virginia is highly rated as well as others like Lake Fairfax Park in Reston, Virginia or Shenandoah National Park in Luray, Virginia.