6 Great Days in #Colorado! Day 4: Fly-Fishing! Day 4 of our 6 great days in Colorado was a total treat for me: fly-fishing for trout on the Platte River! Our inn/home, the Elkhorn Inn & Theatre, in Landgraff, McDowell County, West Virginia, is right on Elkhorn Creek, which is 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…
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…
It’s fun to play “tourist” at home! This past week Dan and I had a rather amazing little getaway- right here in southern WV! We got to go Ziplining through the WV forests at TreeTops Canopy Tours , learn to fly fish for trout with Bobby Bower of ProFishWV, have a Read more…
It’s finally really and truly summer at the Elkhorn Inn- & it has even stopped raining! 😀 We’ve had a wonderful spring so far, with lots of great Railfan guests from places as far away as Florida & England (they love the “Pokey” in the UK, too!), & this weekend Read more…