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A few years back I drove through West Virginia and ran across this beautiful mountain town. I might have found just one portion of the town, there was a small shopping center surrounded by some incredible bridges with mountains on all sides and what looked like a lot of coal plants. I believe it was near Tamarack as well. I've always been enamored with the city but never caught the name of it, so this is a wild shot in the dark, does anyone know of anything that fits the description?
A few years back I drove through West Virginia and ran across this beautiful mountain town. I might have found just one portion of the town, there was a small shopping center surrounded by some incredible bridges with mountains on all sides and what looked like a lot of coal plants. I believe it was near Tamarack as well. I've always been enamored with the city but never caught the name of it, so this is a wild shot in the dark, does anyone know of anything that fits the description?
Any guess on the size of the town? Tamarack is in Beckley, but it doesn't sound like that was the town you saw. Were you on an interstate, or any other major road?
If it had a small shopping center and cool bridges, then I'd say Hinton or Montgomery.
I can't recall the interstate I was on at the time. (Was driving from Chicago to North Carolina) I remember it being not too far from the time I left the area to when I hit Tamarack. As I was leaving I had to go through the side of a city on a road that hugged a mountain adjacent to a body of water.
This might not help a lot, but I remember some of the stores in that shopping center, one was a Family Dollar and the other was a fast food place, I think it was McDonalds. And, I know this might sound like a million places, but it was very isolated, you had to take some long and winding bridge/roads to get out of there.
Sorry for the lack of details, this has just been bothering me for ages. I've been pretty enamored with this place since I ran across it, but I have no idea what its name is.
Did you pay tolls? If so you were on 64 and the WV Turnpike. It sounds like Quincy, but I don't know what you whould have liked so much about it. Which leads me to believe that you were somewhere else.
"As I was leaving I had to go through the side of a city on a road that hugged a mountain adjacent to a body of water."
Wouldn't that sort of describe I-64 headed east from the I-77 merger? Especially through Kanawha City where the interstate is cut into the side of the mountain and borders the Kanawha River on the other side. Pretty sure there's a shopping center right next to the interstate with a Dollar Tree and fast food places too. So that's my theory.
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