In the News

05Jul 2022

HUNTNGTON VISITORS BUREAU PROMOTES RUSTIC RAVINES

A new video produced by the Huntington Area Convention and Visitors Bureau promotes Rustic Ravines as one of the area’s top attractions. Thanks to the HACVB for the “shout out.”

01Jun 2021

Rustic Ravines highlighted in WCHS-TV story on ATV trails

Segment aired on WCHS-TV, Charleston, W.Va., May 22, 2021

This will be Joe Boffo's fourth summer as an owner of Rustic Ravines, a cabin resort in Genoa that tailors to ATV riders.

He said the ATV tourism boom in Wayne County is just getting started.

“This is really adding a boost to our business," Boffo said. "We were already doing well organically, but this just maxed us out."

02Nov 2020

RUSTIC RAVINES FEATURED AS PART OF W.VA. TOURISM CORRIDOR

Rustic Ravines and co-owner Joe Boffo were featured in a story on an expanding recreation corridor in Southern West Virginia recently posted on the Huntington Area Development Council website. The piece highlighted plans for the Appalachian Heartland Highway (AHH) planned along West Virginia Rt. 152. Earlier this year, a federally funded planning initiative was completed to establish and enhance recreational assets along the corridor and drive tourism into Southern West Virginia.

01Jun 2020

RUSTIC RAVINES AWARDED $250,000 STATE GRANT TO EXPAND GROUNDS

Rustic Ravines made statewide news throughout West Virginia in early June 2020 by earning a $250,000 grant from the state Department of Environmental Protection’s Office of Abandoned Mine Lands. Rustic Ravines’ grant was among $27 million in awards funding trails, campgrounds and other projects on former mine sites throughout the state, according to a story in the Charleston Gazette. The funds were raised through fees on coal sales by active mine operations.

15Oct 2019

Rustic Ravines unveils new zipline attraction

GENOA, W.Va. - If you've ever wanted to fly through the vast forests of the Allegheny Mountains, Rustic Ravines now has you covered with the opening of its new attraction, The Big Zipper.

Read the full article here.

14Oct 2019

Traveling WV: Rustic Ravines

Genoa W.Va. — Joseph Boffo hails from West Virginia, Follansbee in Brooke County actually. As a child he and his family moved to Columbus Ohio, but Boffo always dreamed of returning to the Mountain State.

Read the full article here.

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