Location: The Midland Trail runs from Charleston, WV east to the West Virginia-Virginia border at White Sulphur Springs.
Length: 116.8 miles (188 km)
Time To Allow: 8 hours

Description/Highlights/Points of Interest

Long before the U.S.A. became a nation, buffalo and Native American hunters carved this trail. The Midland Trail begins at the West Virginia State Capitol in Charleston and travels through Malden, boyhood home of Booker T. Washington. Fifty miles in, you'll enter white-water mountain country and the breathtaking scenery of the New River Gorge and Hawks Nest State Park. On the eastern end, you'll find colonial Lewisburg and the five-star Greenbrier Resort Hotel. The Greenbrier is a National Historic Landmark, and its 54-hole championship golf course is the oldest in the United States.

The following organization offers a trip along the Midland Trail:

Midland Trail
American Driving Vacations
Connecting Charleston, West Virginia’s Capital City, with the famous Greenbrier Resort, The Midland Trail is said to deliver every type of quintessential West Virginia experience from whitewater rafting to colonial history. Because there are so many wonderful things to do on the Trail, Traveling America selected a portion of the Trail in the southeastern part of the state. During your 4-day, 3-night adventure, you'll experience the wide variety of leisure experiences the state has to offer, while traveling on the Scenic Byway, through quaint historic towns. You can also enjoy a day of whitewater rafting floating in spectacular scenery and Tamarack, the only state heritage center in the nation that delivers a complement of all the arts in one place.