A Walk In Parkersburg West Virginia 

I bought a house here in November and moved from South Florida. It's a wonderful place to live. I live on the south side which is a couple of miles from where you were walking. You missed so much like the abandoned public library which is stunning as well as several other stunning churches. White tail deer are everywhere and more kinds of birds than you can shake a stick at. There aren't a lot of cops which is nice. It was 4 months before I saw one pass my house but there are speed traps here and there. I've walked all the streets you visited. They aren't really crazy about minorities here but for the most part they keep that to themselves. Lots of gays though. The shopping in the Parkersburg area is amazing and Mineral Springs is only 5 miles away and they have dirt track racing I'm really looking forward to. There are plenty of jobs here with help wanted signs everywhere. The biggest negative are the fentanyl junkies some of which are shipped here from the capital. It's a big problem in WV.

Thanks for posting. My home town 😊.

Thank you. I will be moving to PKB, WV in about 3 months. This is a beautiful town and the atmosphere I'm looking for.

Very cool tour. My great, great uncle Col. W.N. Chancellor, built the Blennerhassett Hotel. His brother, my great, great grandfather piloted and owned the riverboat, the W.N. Chancellor, up and down the Ohio in the late 1800's. My g. g. g; Grandfather William Palmer Rathbone and his son my g. g. grandfather Col. John Castelli Rathbone & his brother John Valleau Rathbone dug the Rathbone well at Burning Springs. My great uncle William Palmer Rathbone Jr. worked in the courthouse in PKG. I'm related to Peter Van Winkle and so many others in PKG. i have a large connection to Parkersburg is what I'm saying, even though I was born California and having never been to this incredibly historic city. I so hope to be able to do so one day. :)

Beautiful architecture. Some of it reminds of downtown area in Guthrie Oklahoma.

Great job on the tour... and your pronunciation on Blennerhassett

I live downtown and it’s a really nice place. But, as much as I love Parkersburg, the 200-800 blocks of Market St are not exactly representative of the city as a whole. It’s got its problems, like a lot of places, but by in large, it’s a really wonderful place with really wonderful people and I’m proud to call it home. I relocated there from Clarksburg, and I much prefer Parkersburg. Also, I know it’s been said a few times, but we don’t call it “PKB”. It’s just a catchy abbreviation. Cool video bud.

That train bridge was once the largest in the world.

I'm from Parkersburg, you pronounced Blennerhasset perfectly.

I liked watching this

I live here, its a great place to come retire, and live the remaining years of your life. Its not great if you are in your early 20s. Young adults will find it a struggle here, both to find work and affordable places to live. We have a pretty bad opiod problem, and at one point a bad meth problem. Downtown looks clean becuase its the selling point, if you left from here and went about 20 block in any direction, youd start findign the neighborhoods, where the graffiti, run down buildings and boarded up homes and business;s become mroe abundant

I'm from Parkersburg. It has it's good and bad. Corrupt politics for sure, but that seems to be everywhere. Ultimately, I love my town, but i don't know if I'll always live here. So many people are flicking here from other states it's far from the small town it used to be. And the drug problem is ruining the town

Pkb native. The reason you don't see a high police presence (or any presence) in the "down town" area. It's really only an area where residents go to if they work or have business in the area. Not that there's anything wrong with that part of town. There's just not much going on there. Grand central Ave is much busier. For recreation local parks would be more where people would go. Point park or city park. But "downtown" doesn't have very much hustle and bustle.

Thank you

Beautiful town can't wait to move there. Thanks for the video

I’m staying at the blennerhasset hotel this week! It doesn’t look like there’s much going on around the hotel. I guess I’ll have to Uber somewhere for a bar/pub for food or any kind of nightlife? Any recommendations on what to do on a weekend night there?

Thank you for the walk around; retiring and want to find a smaller place but with all the places I enjoy in my town without the 15-20 minute drive to get to a grocery store. When you see the small spray painting, it's called tagging which means that a gang has marked their territory, similar to a dog peeing on a fire hydrant.

Did you get to see the Smoot theatre? It's either one of or the last remaining theatre from Vaudville. It was going to be torn down and some volunteers saved it.

7:22 hello the sheriffs and police station is a few blocks away. Behind the courthouse. They are close by

Downtown is still nice But the side neighborhoods have really went to hell

Wow I must be in the worst place in Parkersburg I’ve never seen any of that!

Hi ,i may move there ,is Parkersburg safe enough?

I have to also say, as a native, we never call it pkb. We say Parkersburg. And feel lucky the police weren't around. They're all dirty and it's definitely the fact that people care about the town. It's not the police. If you would have went up 7th street, not far from where you were, you would have seen the junkies

I am from Parkersburg. That was a great tour of downtown. If you had gone a little further down 5th Street past Market Street, you would have seen the Smoot Theater, which is one of our best landmarks. My mom worked at the Huntington Bank building back when it was the former Wood County Bank. You pronounced Blennerhassett perfectly, however nobody calls Parkersburg, PKB. Some people do call it P-Burg. I think PKB is just a marketing slogan.

No one out jogging, bike riding, or walking their dog? Hmm...

Nice clean town but where are all of the people?

This place is a dump. If you ever see me back in that city you will know I really f*** up bad in life.