Buckhannon

Buckhannon is a city of 5,725 people in West Virginia, and the only incorporated community in Upshur County. It was established in 1816 and named for Buckongahelas, a Native American chief of the Lenni-Lenape tribe who often hunted around the area, and whose name was often mispronounced by English settlers as "Buckongehanon".

Get in

Buckhannon is located on US-33 between Weston and Elkins.

Get around

See

• West Virginia Wildlife Center, ☎ [phone]. Open daily from 9AM-5PM. WV-20 12 miles south of Buckhannon. A modern zoological facility displaying native and introduced state wildlife, with a 1.25-mile interpretive trail through a mature hardwood forest. 

Do

• West Virginia Strawberry Festival, ☎ [phone]. Downtown Buckhannon. Held the third week in May since 1936. Parades, a carnival, fireworks, helicopter rides, arts and crafts exhibits, quilt show, photography show, souvenir shop, band competition, car show, live entertainment, a strawberry auction and a sweetest berry contest. 

Learn

• West Virginia Wesleyan College, 59 College Avenue, 304-473-8000, . A liberal arts university founded in 1890, with 36 academic majors including biology, business, education, political science and psychology.

Buy

• Catherine Miller Designs, 7 Cloverleaf Lane, ☎ [phone]. Stonewheel hand-engraved glassware, including stemware, pitchers, vases, bowls, suncatchers and special designs. 
• Ron Hinkle Glass, ☎ [phone]. Sago/Hampton Road off WV-20. Open 9AM-5PM Monday through Friday, and 9AM-2PM on Saturday; closed Sundays. Paperweights, stemware, designer vases, kitchen and bath accessories, "almost edibles", glass creatures and Christmas ornaments. Glassblowing classes offered. Demonstrations given 9AM-3PM Monday through Friday. 

Eat

Drink

• Outlaw Saloon and Roadhouse, ☎ [phone]. Saloon with pool table, dance floor, Tex-Mex kitchen. Offering live music, DJ, Karaoke, bike nights, college nights, happy hour 4-9. 

Sleep

Hotels and Inns

• Bicentennial Inn, 90 E Main Street, ☎ [phone], toll-free: [phone]. On-site restaurant called the 88 Restaurant. 
• Colonial Hotel-Motel, 24 N Kanawha Street. 14 hotel rooms, 21 motel unites, 3 efficiency suites. Built in the early 1900s and known locally for its friendly atmosphere. $35-50. 

Bed and Breakfasts

• Governor's Inn Bed & Breakfast, 76 E Main Street, ☎ [phone]. 6 rooms. Housed in a century-old brick mansion with a formal dining room serving a daily gourmet breakfast. 
• Post Mansion Inn, 8 Island Avenue, ☎ [phone]. An elegantly-restored 20-room mansion. 
• Riverside Bed & Breakfast, 113 Island Avenue, ☎ [phone]. Built in 1895 on a peninsula by the Buckhannon River. Sunroom, 4 acres of land with perennial gardens. Full homemade breakfast. $75-95. 

Go next

• Weston is about 20 minutes west on US-33.
• Elkins is about 30 minutes east on US-33.
• Clarksburg is about 40 minutes north on I-79.

Routes through Buckhannon

Columbus ← Weston ←

W  E

→ Elkins → Harrisonburg