Boat Ramps in West Virginia
We list 146 public boat ramps and launches in West Virginia, spread across 41 counties. The waterbodies with the most listed launches are Ohio River (22), New River (15), South Branch Potomac River (11), Kanawha River (10), Little Kanawha River (6).
Listings come from OpenStreetMap; no statewide agency boat-access dataset has been merged for this state yet.
Before you launch: boat registration in West Virginia is handled by the West Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles, and fishing licenses are sold by the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources.
Counties in West Virginia
- Barbour County (1)
- Berkeley County (6)
- Boone County (1)
- Braxton County (10)
- Brooke County (2)
- Cabell County (4)
- Clay County (1)
- Fayette County (8)
- Gilmer County (3)
- Grant County (2)
- Greenbrier County (3)
- Hampshire County (10)
- Hancock County (1)
- Hardy County (5)
- Harrison County (1)
- Jackson County (3)
- Jefferson County (6)
- Kanawha County (9)
- Lewis County (4)
- Logan County (1)
- Marion County (2)
- Marshall County (4)
- Mason County (5)
- Mineral County (2)
- Monongalia County (3)
- Morgan County (1)
- Nicholas County (6)
- Ohio County (1)
- Pleasants County (3)
- Pocahontas County (1)
- Putnam County (4)
- Raleigh County (7)
- Randolph County (1)
- Ritchie County (2)
- Summers County (4)
- Tucker County (1)
- Tyler County (1)
- Upshur County (3)
- Wayne County (6)
- Wirt County (2)
- Wood County (6)
Popular lakes & rivers in West Virginia
- Ohio River (22)
- New River (15)
- South Branch Potomac River (11)
- Kanawha River (10)
- Little Kanawha River (6)
- Potomac River (6)
- Summersville Lake (5)
- Shenandoah River (4)
- Buckhannon River (3)
- Burnsville Lake (3)
- Elk River (3)
- East Lynn Lake (2)
- Greenbrier River (2)
- Holly River (2)
- Monongahela River (2)
- Mud River (2)
- Sleepy Creek Lake (2)
- Stonewall Jackson Lake (2)
- Sutton Lake (2)
- Tygart Valley River (2)
- West Fork River (2)
Cities in West Virginia
- Charleston (3)
- Moundsville (3)
- Huntington (2)
- Nitro (2)
- Shannondale (2)
- St. Marys (2)
- Wellsburg (2)
- Williamstown (2)