We have entered the Elkhorn Inn & Theatre to win the #SCORE $25,000 Unique Business Award- PLEASE VOTE FOR US- and please share it, too! (Apparently you can vote repeatedly- so PLEASE do, as we have to catch up with the folks who have 5000 votes!) https://championship.score.org/contest_entries/264102

The Elkhorn Inn is the ONLY entry from McDowell County #WestVirginia– and the ONLY “Coal Heritage Trail” historic building in the state providing lodging and fine dining! AND we are the ONLY restaurant in our area on the Bon Appetit Appalachiafoodie” map! So we really ARE unique! We truly hope to be their next  #BizChampion!  THANK YOU!

The Elkhorn Inn is an historic “Coal Heritage Trail” inn providing bed-and-breakfast accommodations in 14 guest rooms, and fine dining by reservation.  Thanks to Chef Dan’s dinners, we are on the 6-state Bon Appetit Appalachia “foodie” map: http://visitappalachia.com/bonappetitappalachia/item/elkhorn-inn-theatre/

Our area offers the best railfanning (train photography ops), and wild stream trout fishing in the USA, and the best ATV and UTV trails in the eastern USA! We have gorgeous leaf-peeping here in the mountains in the fall, tons of historic sites to visit for those interested in West Virginia, railroading, and industrial and coal mining history, and lots of other fun in the mountains!
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Great ATVing!
Great winding roads for bikers!
Great trout fishing on Elkhorn Creek!

 When we saved and restored the last, surviving historic “Coal Heritage Trail” building in Landgraff, WV in 2002, and opened our home as the Elkhorn Inn in 2003, our aim was to help kick-start the post-flood tourism economy of McDowell Co., by providing needed lodging & tourism services, as McDowell Co. offers excellent railfanning, ATVing, wild trout fishing, and other fun! We believed that we could not only save this historic building, but truly make it “live” again, welcoming guests from around the USA and overseas- and we did! We also have a “museum room” at the Inn documenting local history, a gift shop featuring local products, & we offer fine dining at the Inn by reservation, literally  putting McDowell Co. on the Bon Appetit Appalachia 6-state “foodie” map!

Chef Dan dinner: Caribbean Rum-Marinated Steak, with housemade Onion Jam

Chef Dan dinners: Chicken Piccata, served over Pasta

Dinner Party at the Elkhorn Inn!

Chef Dan Dinner: Shrimp Scampi

Golf AND ATVing!

Railfanning: the NS “Pocahontas” railroad across from the Elkhorn Inn (c) Sean Hoyden

Leaf-Peeping via ATV!

Chef Dan dinner: Herb-Rubbed Smoked Ribs!

The Elkhorn Inn & the NS “Pocahontas” railroad (C) John Sagert

Chef Dan Dinner: Herb-Poached Salmon with Alfredo-Dill Sauce!

Apples Guest Room

 

Blue Private Bath Guest Room

Dinner at the Elkhorn Inn…

Greenbrier Guest Room
Yellow Flowers Private Bath Guest Room

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