Trail towns
Connector towns let you ride off the trail on approved streets for fuel, food and lodging. WV Tourism names Williamson, Matewan, Delbarton, Gilbert and Man as ATV-friendly communities, with riding from daylight to dark and until 11pm in Gilbert (WV Tourism, 2023). Check local signs for current hours.
Town connector routes are not permission to ride any road. Outside routes a statute or local ordinance allows, state rules bar ATVs and UTVs from roads with a center line or more than two lanes, except to cross: stop fully, cross at about a right angle, yield to traffic, and use your lights if the machine has them. Sources: WV CSR 204-1-3 · WV Code 17F-1-1
Mingo County
Williamson is the Mingo County seat on the Tug Fork and the trail town for Buffalo Mountain, one of the three original Hatfield-McCoy systems. Riders can take approved streets to…
Mingo County
Matewan, on the Tug Fork below Williamson, is home to the Devil Anse trailhead and to the history of the 1920 Matewan Massacre and the Hatfield-McCoy…
Mingo County
Delbarton, in Mingo County, has a community connector to the Buffalo Mountain system and is one of WV Tourism's five ATV-friendly…
Mingo County
Gilbert, in eastern Mingo County, connects to Rockhouse and lets riders use town streets until 11pm, later than other towns. It hosts National TrailFest each…
Logan County
Man, in Logan County, is home to the shared Rockhouse and Braveheart trailhead and is an ATV-friendly…
Logan County
Logan, the Logan County seat, reaches the Bearwallow system through the City of Logan connector from the Country Roads Byways Visitor…
Mercer County
Bramwell, the historic town of coal millionaires, is the gateway to the Pocahontas system and the new Trail 34 connector into Virginia's Spearhead…
Wyoming County
Pineville, the Wyoming County seat, is home to the Pinnacle Creek trailhead and has a town…
Wyoming County
Mullens is a Pinnacle Creek connector town in Wyoming County with restaurants, groceries and…
McDowell County
Northfork and nearby Keystone are the Indian Ridge connector towns. The unstaffed trailhead is at Ashland, where Ashland Resort sells…
McDowell County
War is West Virginia's southernmost city and home to the Warrior trailhead at 84 Silcox…
McDowell County
Gary is an ATV-friendly McDowell County access point on Warrior, with connector access to town services and the southern trail…
Boone County
Julian, about twenty minutes from Charleston, has the Ivy Branch trailhead and the Hatfield-McCoy Trails Welcome Center at 28 Big Pinnacle Branch Road, where you can buy…
Stay in Williamson
Williamson is the trail town for Buffalo Mountain: you can ride from town onto the trails, then come back to food, fuel and a real bed.
Full disclosure: the two houses below are ours. We built this guide because we ride here too.
Williamson, WV · sleeps 16
Four bedrooms for 16 riders, a private pool, and a locking garage and carport for your machines. Ride out on Williamson's town connector routes to Buffalo Mountain.
4 bedrooms · 2 baths · 3-night minimum · no pets
Williamson, WV · sleeps 22
An 1896 home downtown with 11 bedrooms and 7 baths for groups up to 22. Walk to restaurants, ride out on the connector routes, and events are welcome.
11 bedrooms · 7 baths · 3-night minimum · no pets
