Mountaineer Country · Monongalia County
Places to stay in Morgantown, West Virginia
Morgantown is the seat of Monongalia County, with about 30,300 residents, and is the home of West Virginia University and its 25,000 students. It is on the Monongahela River where I-79 meets I-68, about 75 miles south of Pittsburgh. Coopers Rock State Forest is well under an hour east and Cheat Lake is a short drive east.
Places to stay in Morgantown, WV
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In the meantime, you can also browse places to stay in Cheat Lake , Coopers Rock State Forest and Bruceton Mills .
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Where should you stay in Morgantown, WV?
Stay in the center of Morgantown if you want to walk to restaurants and shops, or look just outside town for cabins and more space.
Morgantown is known for its hotels, motels and vacation rentals. Until listings go live here, Bruceton Mills, Kingwood and Fairmont are the closest places to stay.
- Where it is
- Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia
- Also worth a look
- Cheat Lake, Coopers Rock State Forest, Bruceton Mills, Kingwood
- What people do here
- Hiking, Mountain Biking, Boating, Fishing, Whitewater Rafting
Nearby attractions
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Coopers Rock Overlook
A stone-walled overlook in Coopers Rock State Forest about 1,200 feet above the Cheat River canyon, a short walk from parking off I-68 exit 15. The forest covers roughly 12,700 acres.
When it gets busy
| Event | When | What to expect |
|---|---|---|
| Spring Whitewater Season | Snowmelt and rain-driven, March through May | Demand is short-notice and clusters on weekends when the gauges come up, so Preston County and Fayette County cabins book inside a week rather than months ahead. |
| WVU Football Home Games | Six or seven Saturdays from early September through late November | Morgantown sells out for every home game, with two-night minimums and rates several times weekday levels, and the Pitt and other rivalry games are the hardest. |
| Preston County Buckwheat Festival | Thursday through Sunday of the last full weekend in September | Kingwood has very few rooms, so the festival pushes visitors to Morgantown, Bruceton Mills and Oakland, Maryland. |
| Mountaineer Balloon Festival | One weekend in October | The festival usually shares a weekend with a WVU home game, which is what actually closes out Morgantown. |
| West Virginia Three Rivers Festival | A long weekend in May in downtown Fairmont | Fairmont hotel supply generally holds, but rooms tighten if a Morgantown event lands on the same weekend. |
| West Virginia Wine and Jazz Festival | A weekend in August | It falls before the football season starts, so Morgantown rooms are available but downtown and Suncrest hotels tighten on the Saturday. |
