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Mountaintop Team Building

Offering team building that is pure fun, Adventures on the Gorge is an outfitter and resort in the midst of West Virginia’s magnificent mountains that offers some of the nation’s most exciting white-water rafting plus three zip-line courses, all only an hour from Charleston. A group can meet in the city, travel together by van to the New River Gorge, spend a day or half-day bonding in the gorgeous, exciting outdoors, and return to the city for an evening function.

Both sports offer the opportunity to reach beautiful, otherwise-inaccessible wilderness locations on the river and in the treetops and to share those moments and memories with team members.

 

Music for Meetings

Since 1983, National Public Radio’s Mountain Stage program, based at the West Virginia Culture Center, has been showcasing diverse live musical performances from traditional bluegrass and roots music to indie rock and jazz performed by Grammy winners and emerging talent. The state’s musical heritage runs deep and is a vibrant part of West Virginia’s personality.

When 500-plus members of TravelSouth USA met in Charleston in February, attendees were amazed at the quality and quantity of music the West Virginia Division of Tourism had arranged. Superb local talent performed as the group registered at the Charleston Civic Center upon arrival. Eight Mountain Stage bands played at an opening night reception at the Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences. And “America’s Got Talent” winner Landau Murphy Jr. serenaded the group during a luncheon at the Civic Center’s Coliseum.

 

Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences of West Virginia

One of the country’s few venues that houses performance arts, visual arts and interactive science under one roof, the 240,000-square-foot Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences of West Virginia is a 10-year-old treasure with a Broadway series, the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, popular performers such as Tony Bennett, an 800-piece collection of American art and outdoor sculpture, and a science museum with an ElectricSky domed theater and a new SteamWorks gallery that opened in March.

A grand theater seats groups of 1,883, and a smaller black-box theater accommodates 130; the 5,700-square-foot Benedum Grand Lobby and its balconies flex for trade shows or receptions and corporate dinners. Guided museum tours can be included.

 

Spotlight on Charleston, West Virginia

Location: Southeastern West Virginia on the Kanawha River

Access: Airport, Amtrak, three major interstates

Major Meeting Spaces: Charleston Civic Center

Hotel Rooms: 3,500 citywide, 1,400 downtown

Off-site Venues: Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences, West Virginia Culture Center and State Museum, Appalachian Power Park

Contact Info:

Charleston Convention and Visitors Bureau
304-344-5075
 www.charlestonwv.com