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View south along WV 61 at WV 16 just southeast of Mount Hope. West Virginia Route 61 is a north–south state highway in central and southern West Virginia. The southern terminus of the route is at West Virginia Route 41 in Piney View. The northern terminus is at U.S. Route 60 (Patrick Street Bridge) in Charleston.
This is a list of airports in West Virginia (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in West Virginia (1 P) Pages in category "Airports in West Virginia" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
US 19: 249.0: 400.7 US 19 in Bluefield: US 19 near Mount Morris, Pa. 1926: current US 21: 187: 301 US 21 at Virginia state line in Bluefield: US 21 at Ohio state line Williamstown: 1926: 1974 Replaced by I-77: US 22: 5.97: 9.61 US 22 at Weirton: US 22 at Weirton 1926: current US 30: 4: 6.4 US 30 at Chester: US 30 near Chester
U.S. Route 61 or U.S. Highway 61 (U.S. 61) is a major United States highway that extends 1,400 miles (2,300 km) between New Orleans, Louisiana and the city of Wyoming, Minnesota. The highway generally follows the course of the Mississippi River and is designated the Great River Road for much of its route.
Eastern West Virginia Regional Airport has had airline service through the years into the early 1970s, including Allegheny, Lake Central, and Cumberland Airlines. The last Lake Central timetable before merging with Allegheny in 1968 showed three flights a day, with one to Elkins, WV, and two to Baltimore, using Nord 262 prop jets.
The airport opened in 1950–52 with a 4,200-foot, east-west runway; the first airline flights were Piedmont DC-3s in 1952. (The last Piedmont YS-11 left in 1981.) The runway was extended to 5,000 ft in the 1950s, and the 6,750 ft runway 1/19 was constructed between 1975 and 1979.
While West Virginia was once crisscrossed with commercial and passenger railroad networks, the decline of the coal and timber industries, coupled with the rise of the automobile, led to a sharp drop in track mileage in the state. Many of the former railroad grades are used as trails for hiking and biking throughout the state's numerous woodlands.