John Denver's hit "Take Me Home, Country Roads," has just become a state song of West Virginia, an effort spearheaded by the woman married to the actor who played Gilligan on Gilligan's Island.

John Denver may have considered West Virginia to be almost heaven, but the people who live there prefer to think of themselves as wild and wonderful. After months of debate, and two online and ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — This year's West Virginia Vacation Guide celebrates the 50th anniversary of John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads," Gov. Jim Justice's office said.

“Life is old there, older than the trees, younger than the mountains, blowing like a breeze,” John Denver sang in his 1971 ode to West Virginia, Take Me Home, Country Roads.

Singer John Denver never called West Virginia home, but his 1970s hit “Take Me Home, Country Roads” is one of the state’s official songs. VIEW E-EDITION. 25¢ for 3 mos.

While Virginia also identifies with “Country Roads,” West Virginia and Colorado fight to claim Denver. “Rocky Mountain High” became our state’s second official song in 2007.

A Case For Western Virginia. Here's their logic: While Denver mentions West Virginia by name when he sings the lines, "Almost heaven, West Virginia/ Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River," the ...

Next time you hear John Denver warbling “Take Me Home, Country Roads” — or hear the group Spank perform it in the trailer for the video game Fallout 76, a version that has become … ...

On the home stretch of the drive from Denver to Pittsburgh, you cut at one point through the West Virginia panhandle, a roughly ten-mile stretch of winding Appalachian interstate. It's one of the ...