THOMAS, W.Va. — A 2,700-acre tract of land which is largely the view the public gets from Lindy Point in the Blackwater Falls State Park will soon be protected in perpetuity. John Crites ...

Opponents fear the planned four-lane road and bridge will ruin the mountaintop vistas around Blackwater Falls, part of a region the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd called a “wilderness jewel,” and ...