Green Bank, WV

Green Bank is a census-designated place in Pocahontas County in West Virginia's Potomac Highlands inside the Allegheny Mountain Range. The 2020 census counted 141 residents. Green Bank is located along WV 28. Green Bank is home to the Green Bank Observatory and is also close to the Snowshoe Mountain ski resort. The short version is that Green Bank carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Green Bank: its past remains attached to the places people use now. The community was named for a green riverbank near the original town site. Green Bank is home to Observatory. Green Bank is home to Telescope.