Milton, WV

We spent a week at the Huntington/Fox Fire KOA just outside of Charleston. It’s giving our favorite RV Park a run for its money. The owners are super friendly, and really care about your stay. The park is very clean and family friendly.

The KOA has banana bikes in various sizes for all to enjoy for a small price. It’s very reasonable. The boys road them almost everyday we were there. The park also offered a couple of fully stocked ponds to fish in. Alex and Nicholas each caught a fish one evening! The ponds were both catch and release so we let the little fishes go. It was a great way to spend the evenings! There were several activities offered by the KOA, but the boys’ favorite thing there was the owner’s dog! Winchester not only had a great name… he does a great trick! If y’all are ever in the area, we highly recommend the Huntington/Fox Fire KOA!

We didn’t get to take a tour of the Charleston Capitol Building. The website said tours were available, but when we got there, we found out they’d recently changed that. Bummer. We did get to walk around some, but we really enjoy taking the guided tours. You learn more about the building and sometimes you get into parts of the building you wouldn’t normally get to see.

The Charleston Capitol Building was one of the more reserved buildings we’ve seen so far. Where other state capitol buildings have decorated every space this one has gone in another direction. And you know what? I like it. It’s not flashy. It’s modest. The building speaks for itself without all of the flash. In the right photo above you can see what they call a chandelier and it weighs 4,000 pounds. The chandelier is made from graduated crystals imported from Czechoslovakia. The light was definitely twinkling! Y’all know I prefer the stained glass, but I will admit the crystal chandelier was lovely.

Just like all the other capitol buildings, there is marble everywhere. You can see how much marble was in the Charleston Capitol Building rotunda.

 The museum across the courtyard from the Capitol Building was a nice surprise. We spent a couple of hours learning about the history of West Virginia. In the photo above you can see what a general store would have looked like during the late 1800s early 1900s in West Virginia.

We went to the Blenko Glass Company one afternoon to check it out. The building the glass blowers work in has an observation deck for tours and we watched that blob of glass as it was turned into this amazing blue vase! It was very cool. We stood there and watched them do several before we went down to the gift shop where we got a pretty blue vase to give someone as a gift. I somehow missed getting a photo of the vase we bought.

We also found the Milton covered bridge at a park near Blenko Glass! I used it as a background for some school pictures of the boys. They turned out great this year!

I’m loving all of the spring flowers! The tulips you can see in the left photo were in a vibrant shade of purple…one of the best colors in my opinion…

We immensely enjoyed our time in the Milton area. We’ve already decided another trip is in the future!

See y’all down the road!

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