In a voice soft with sorrow, he added, "Ten years ago she took a fall in the Backbone Mountains.

This astonishing feat, accomplished over the course of a year, required excavating road cuts sometimes hundreds of feet high into Backbone Mountain.

The southern end of Backbone Mountain was the location of West Virginia's first fire tower.

These groups of towns are separated by Backbone Mountain.

These separate segments were unified in the early 1950s when the highway over Backbone Mountain was completed.

The state highway curves to the northeast and gently ascends Backbone Mountain.

This road was extended east to the top of Backbone Mountain in 1939.

The southern end of Backbone Mountain is the site of West Virginia's first fire tower, originally built by the state in 1922.

At SH-120, it turns more northerly and crosses Backbone Mountain.

MD 38 was rolled back to its current northern terminus on top of Backbone Mountain in 1956.