Spring has Finally sprung here in southern West Virginia- after the winter from holy hell!-and with spring comes ramps!The minute we got home from Vietnam we couldn’t wait to get on our ATVs and ride up into the mountains to try to find ramps like we did last spring! Last Read more…
Please click on the blue link below and check out our new video on The Elkhorn Inn’s “Dinner in the Dining Car” Weekend, May 23-25, 2014, with railroad author/historian James D. Porterfield! Please share the video and help us get the word out about this unique event! Elkhorn Inn & Theatre, Landgraff, WVToll-Free Read more…
On Dec. 27, 2013, a Norfolk Southern train with five locomotives and 111 cars derailed near the Elkhorn Inn in Vivian, WV. It was headed from Bellevue, Ohio to Linwood, North Carolina;12 of the derailed cars were takers containing asphalt tar, two carried soybean oil, one grain, and one railroad cross Read more…
We recently had a WVVA-TV video-journalist visit the Elkhorn Inn & Theatre to tape a small television program, and here it is: Spotlight on McDowell County: The Elkhorn Inn! WVVA TV Bluefield Beckley WV News, Weather and Sports Chef Dan Clark, being interviewed by WVVA-TV at The Elkhorn Inn
I took these in a hurry, with a “toy” camera, but here are some new guest room photos from the Elkhorn Inn & Theatre – Enjoy! Elkhorn Inn Dining Room Elkhorn Inn Fireplace LoungeWiFi & Sat. TV Red/White Guest RoomDouble Bed Yellow Flowers Guest RoomPrivate Bath, Double Bed Texas Star Read more…
I haven’t posted in a bit as I have been working for FEMA as a Community Relations Field Specialist here in McDowell County, WV for last two weeks as part of the Disaster Response Operation for the June floods. This is the first time I’ve worked for FEMA “at home” in McDowell Read more…
This has been quite a week- in the very best way! As Inn-Keepers, it’s a wonderful thing when guests truly become friends, and that is what these last few weeks have been about! I’ll start with this weekend, when Tony “The Trout” Wheeler gave us a day’s fly-fishing lesson on Read more…
The Elkhorn Inn’s first “West Virginia Wine Dinner Weekend” was a grand (and delicious) success! Chef Dan’s Kirkwood Winery ramp-wine-marinated, herb-crusted roast leg of lamb was delectable, and So good with the Watt’s Roost Winery Chambourcin! The dry Martin’s Mist Dry Creek Blueberry Wine was perfect with the prosciutto & melon Read more…
That banging sound you’ve been hearing is undoubtedly my head slamming against the wall. My computer finally crashed & burned last week, something it’s been threatening to do for awhile now, and this time it knocked me for a loop, disappearing (temporarily, I hope…) 8 years of business email addresses Read more…
We came back from our mini-getaway at Glade Springs & Winterplace just at the start of Another snowstorm, and woke up in the morning to be greeted by cardinals and songbirds too numerous to count at the feeders right outside the Elkhorn Inn’s dining room window! It’s been non-stop bird-watching, Read more…