Directions to Event Site... Help!

[Pvt_Sullivan]

I'm mostly confident I can find the event site from the information on the Website... http://pslcampaign.ning.com/page/assault-on-allegheny-3

The original battlefield site located on the crest of Allegheny Mountain (elevation 4,400’) near the VA/WV line, approximately ½-hour west of McDowell, VA. Parking and registration will be located at Edith's Fruit and Produce (the old Dive-In Theater), on Route 250 in Bartow, WV.

But it would be helpful to get a physical street address for those of us technologically inclined who want to use online maps or GPS to get there.

Thanks...

[nrandolph]

Re: Directions to Event Site... Help!

Mr. Berezuk,

Being from West Virginia (Buckhannon), I'd be fairly surprised to know that Bartow has street addresses.

My wife and I drove through this area about a month ago on the way to Wiliamsburg and we were laughing at the GPS because we kept getting the message "recalculating" and "entering unidentified area". Now, some folks GPS might help them out more than ours but I can assure you the directions to the event are clear and will be self evident the moment you see the drive in theatre!

If you're coming west on 250, after the top of Allegheny Mountain the next town will be Bartow. You'll enter into a beautiful mountain valley, cross the east fork of the Greenbrier River (more like a creek), on your left you'll see the old Hermitage Motel/Restaurant (it had closed for a while, but last time through it looked to be open once again), just a hundred yards or so on your right will be the theatre.

This valley is maybe one of the most isolated, and that's saying a lot, in West Virginia, but that isolation has also helped it retain some of it's historical character. A little further down the valley, don't cross the bridge, is the Greenbank National Radio Observatory, which does have a nice bus tour of the site and does some SETI work the last I'd heard..not sure, but this might also be the reason why GPS' don't work in this area very well.

The area around Traveler's Repose, in back of the house and farm have quite a few trenches, gun emplacements and old camps from the Confederate occupation. There's also an unmarked graveyard that supposedly has 80-100 Confederates buried in it who died mainly of disease. I'll have a map with the features marked in clearly if you, or anyone one else would like to see.

Hope you have a great trip there and that this helps you in some way,
Neil Randolph
1st WV

[Stonewall_Greyfox]

Re: Directions to Event Site... Help!

Yep,

Looking forward to the event...and while I suspected this was a case for good old maps, I suppose what both Pete, myself and others might have been interested in is how once we enter Bartow, how to locate the event site, or at least parking...

I'd love to see any maps/historical information available about the actual event site that is available.


Paul B.

[nrandolph]

Re: Directions to Event Site... Help!

Paul,

From an e-mail I received from the Federal commander, Scot Buffington, parking and registration will be at the old drive-in theater. This has given me some funny visions of what that might look like with all the participants parked in the drive-in next to the old soundposts and pointed toward the screen, waiting for some movie that just never comes, or a cheesy "go visit our snackbar" animated jingle...but it's easy to find, believe me on this one!

The Feds will just have a short walk from registration, across the bridge, to the right of Traveler's Repose, up a small piece of the original turnpike before crossing it into the trenches/gun emplacement area for Friday night's camp. From what I've read, this is the best preserved of all the earthworks at Camp Bartow. If you'd like to read more before Friday, just search Traveler's Repose and you'll get a lot of interesting reading, including some forty pages of the application for a historical area designation that Beverly's Hunter Lesser worked on and prepared.

Neil Randolph
1st WV

[27VA]

Re: Directions to Event Site... Help!

Hey

Those directions are pretty damn good for WV
250 South and you cant miss it
this isn't major metro here
no streets just rural routes

[Pvt_Sullivan]

Re: Directions to Event Site... Help!

Neil, thank you for the additional information. It is helpful.

Shawn, I've never lived in West Virginia so I don't know what passes for 'directions' up there. You might consider the original directions sufficient, but I do not which was the reason for the question. Knowing that they have people driving several hours or even days to get to their event, I would have thought the event organizers would put a bit more thought in providing communications that people from places other than West Virginia would find complete enough for their purposes. Heck, I'd have settled for "there will be signs directing participants to registration once they arrive in Bartow." Sorry for the rant, but your reply comes off as calling me an idiot for asking a legimate question about an event that should have been considered completely by the event organizers before it was even announced.

* For those wanting to pile on about me commenting about event organizers and their level of planning, please reference the following thread about the event I organized this year... http://www.authentic-campaigner.com/...ad.php?t=19998 *

[Stonewall_Greyfox]

Re: Directions to Event Site... Help!

Shawn, I've never lived in West Virginia so I don't know what passes for 'directions' up there. You might consider the original directions sufficient, but I do not which was the reason for the question. Knowing that they have people driving several hours or even days to get to their event, I would have thought the event organizers would put a bit more thought in providing communications that people from places other than West Virginia would find complete enough for their purposes. Heck, I'd have settled for "there will be signs directing participants to registration once they arrive in Bartow." Sorry for the rant, but your reply comes off as calling me an idiot for asking a legimate question about an event that should have been considered completely by the event organizers before it was even announced.

Amen.....

Paul B.

[27VA]

Re: Directions to Event Site... Help!

I hope you guys made it.
if you did hope you now see the directions were pretty good afterall