Smalltown West Virginia- Scenic HWY 52

[Music] hey all rusty rv tv welcome check it out this is actually interstate 77 and we're going to drive right into a fog bank we're heading north we're heading up to west virginia going to pick up a scenic route right up the road here it's highway 52 u.s highway 52 it's supposed to be extremely scenic so i thought we'd check it out go right through a mountain a lot of these uh u.s highways they connect with the interstate get through the mountains should be right on the other side we'll get off this thing wasn't that blue ridge parkway cool and i'm finally up to where i can get fuel thank goodness they have fuel in virginia yay anyway i found this online it's a scenic byway and it cuts all the way up to west virginia well part of the way so i thought we'd check it out i'm actually heading up to pennsylvania going to visit friends finally made some directions and figured out a plan here since uh north carolina didn't work out so well look how they tiled the inside of this thing made it our exit should be right up the road here cool this is one pretty state just like north carolina big old rolling mountains trees everywhere okay here's our exit us highway 52 looks like we may need to make a left then we're going to cut up to a little town called bluefield bluefield west virginia it's right on the virginia west virginia border i think the town's actually within both states okay make a right here this is us52 we're going to stick on this for quite a while this is actually uh considered a u.s scenic byway for virginia and they are right it is scenic and beautiful nice back roads and small towns here we come i was asked how i find these routes and it's pretty easy you go online and whatever area you're in you just uh search out scenic byways u.s scenic byways in each state in every state they have them listed and there are dozens of them in every state and they're beautiful to ride so that's how i find these highways and you can always read reviews on them map it out some are small some are very long like the parkway was one blue ridge parkway this u.s 52 it's won not only does it go through virginia here it cuts up to west virginia parkways through the coal mining towns and all that so it's just nice ride check it out once again it's just look up scenic byways in every state we're kind of following the interstate you can see them right off to the right this was the old original road i'm sure i bet for them tunnels you had to go over these mountains too that'd be a ride pretty place all right looks like 52 cuts to the right up here i'm just gonna follow the signs never driven through here we're gonna see what we see little town up here is called rocky gap virginia small town usa look at that old building straight across look at that thing if those walls could talk cool all right here we go our first little town on 52 called rocky gap virginia all these places out here have history that goes back hundreds of years absolutely incredible the amount of history here that old building's covered in climbing was it ivy or whatever shrubbery big tall pines oh look at that one old brick this is downtown rocky gap there's a little post office everybody's got a lawn you gotta mow it green i'm sure they get snow here too it gets they get hardcore winter all the houses they got the flowers the picket fences a big school here too how'd you like to grow up in a place like this tractors and trucks looks like a repair shop wow there's your white picket fences nice all right i think we connect back up here according to the map with 77 just for a couple miles then whoa hello huh well let me wait for him too goodness okay welcome to virginia that's all i need to get in a wreck huh goodness that guy pulled right out in front of me okay right up here according to the phone yep make a left here and we gotta connect back with 77 just for about i think a couple miles okay this is why tunnel got to go through another one 77 and 52 north east mountain tunnel east river east river mountain tunnel here you go this one's all lit up look at it boy these trucks just roar through here i see light at the end of the tunnel we are getting really really close to west virginia i mean like we're right there bingo here we are okay we want to stay on 52. it's actually gonna take us to the town of bluefield west virginia right up there i see the state line sign right there okay welcome to west virginia the phone program so we should be good right up here will cut through town all these towns have coal mining history it's just vast when we leave bluefield and head farther north on 52 there's supposed to be a ton of towns go through they're extremely scenic this should be yep gotta make a right up here and welcome to bluefield west virginia we're gonna head to downtown supposed to be have a historic area in downtown old buildings online looks pretty like a pretty good size uh town i'm sure and then on one end of it it actually cuts back into virginia that's how close we are in the border there's a bowling alley 52 to the right well to stay on it should end up in the downtown area here you go this is like mayberry big old houses look at the lawns the hedges all trimmed oh my goodness look at this big old church right in your neighborhood wow what a life huh flowers starting to bloom every house is dismantled look at this these are old too old-timers how cool what do we got little caesar's pizza okay here we go got some big buildings what are those there's a harley dealer oh those are apartments look at that old-time apartment buildings look at those things are old look how close the buildings are right on the street and look where the telephone pole is i mean they're right there not much room for parking [Music] those are houses up there they got a stairway right off the street that goes way up to their house definitely historic here old old-time places here we go here i think we're in downtown now look at the old clock right there chamber of commerce this place is like out of a storybook big buildings there that must be more apartments look how tall or a hotel maybe huh wow you don't see this everywhere there's a town park i want to find should be off to the right we'll check that out here you go gateway to the billion dollar coal field wow look at the old pictures railroad hauling coal boom town history highlight look at this bluefield west virginia what else we got railroads prelude to prosperity i bet could you imagine all the coal they've hauled out of here more about the rail yards because it's right across the street like right there here comes one in look at that big silo thing i'll be darned behind the park they got a big dog park here too more old buildings those look empty just the architecture of these things still standing i bet they'll still be standing years from now this one was an old bar or something oh alley going up through there no meters on the power boxes so they're empty cold beer here bet they served a few of them pretty cool downtown bluefield west virginia [Music] [Music] [Music] we're the chicory blooms huh must be their flowers west virginia most diverse city wow look at that picture all the railroad all the miners on the railroad car these old pitchers are priceless aren't they merchants making furniture it looks like state college and they got a baseball football huh history there's some of the old buildings some of them are still standing we just drove past them bluefield baseball there's a baseball team professional baseball in 1924 bluefield bluegrays the coalfield league i'll be darned history upon history here let's cruise up that other one-way street in the downtown area we missed these buildings there's a laundromat not much parking parking's a premium here [Music] 52 north we're heading out of bluefield this is still part of the scenic byway and actually this starts it's called the coal heritage scenic byway that's what we're going to be on next the journey continues talk soon [Music] you

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Keywords: Bluefield West Virginia- Scenic HWY 52, west virginia, bluefield wv, bluefield wv atv trails, Downtown Bluefield West Virginia, Heritage Coal Trail Scenic Route, West Virginia Mountains, US HWY 52 byway

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Length: 20min 58sec (1258 seconds)

Published: Sat May 29 2021