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Hinaa Noor is a correspondent for West Virginia Explorer whose work focuses on culture, travel in West Virginia. Her reporting explores the people, landscapes and traditions that shape the Mountain State, with an emphasis on local history and contemporary Appalachian life. Noor is based in New York City and attended Pennsylvania State University. She can be reached at hinaanoor9@yahoo.com.
One of the most extensive cave networks in North America lies beneath the Greenbrier Valley in West Virginia.
Caving

Beneath West Virginia’s Greenbrier Valley, a vast underground world draws adventurers

by Hinaa Noor

LEWISBURG, W.Va. — Beneath the bluegrass pastures of eastern West Virginia lies one of the most extensive cave networks in North America—a hidden landscape of winding tunnels, underground streams, and limestone formations that attract explorers, scientists, and adventure-seeking travelers. West Virginia is home to thousands of documented caves, many concentrated in the valley of the … Read more

Dolly Sods at Sunrise
Attractions

Breathtaking Dolly Sods wilderness attracts throngs to West Virginia’s high country

by Hinaa Noor

LANEVILLE, W.Va. — At more than 4,000 feet above sea level, the Dolly Sods Wilderness in West Virginia has become one of the most recognizable outdoor recreation destinations in the Appalachian Mountains. Once considered remote and difficult to reach, the completion of the US-48 expressway from Washington, D.C., has dramatically changed how people experience the … Read more