Rivers To Ridges Heritage Trail

The Rivers to Ridges Heritage Trail, formerly known as the Kanawha Gateway Heritage Area, is a 501C-3 non-profit organization founded in July 2006 through a cooperative agreement between the Mason and Putnam County Commissions and the Greater Kanawha Resource Conservation and Development Area, Inc. The coalition was created to support projects that encourage heritage education and tourism throughout the communities of the lower Kanawha River Valley. The mission of the Rivers to Ridges Heritage Trail is to enhance and promote economic activities, through technical and financial assistance, for the development of a tourism corridor which follows the Kanawha River from Nitro, WV, to Point Pleasant, WV. The intention is to preserve the physical and cultural remains of our unique heritage for the purpose of increasing and developing heritage tourism in Putnam and Mason County, and the promotion of the lower Kanawha River Valley as a destination site to foster economic development in the area.