Interstate Highways
West Virginia is so mountainous that it was quite late to be settled. The interstate highway system, although it doesn't completely do away with highway hazards, HAS helped to make the state accessible. Or actually made it possible to transit the state without a completely white knuckled grip on the steering wheel.There are six interstate routes with two digits, and one "three digit" (I-470 around Wheeling) highway. TheyInterstate 64 - the major east west routeEnters state: From Kentucky, Wayne County, near Kenova.Leaves state: at Virginia, Greenbrier, near White Sulphur Springs.Major Cities & Towns: Huntington, Charleston, Beckley, LewisburgI-64 was also one of the last major interstate routes completed in the United States. The segment from I-77 at Beckley to the US 60 interchange at Sam Black Church was not finished until the late 1980s. Prior to that, thru traffic had to use...
