White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia - Nuclear Bunker for Congress

White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia - Nuclear Bunker for Congress

Where our elected representatives planned to enjoy their post-apocalyptic days. Roadsideamerica.com Report...

White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia - Nuclear War Bunker for US Congress - Bankruptcy!

The Greenbrier resort has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, according to the Washington Post. The posh hotel and golf course, in the hills of eastern West Virginia, has been battered by the recession and the precipitous drop in bookings at posh hotels. Our interest, naturally, is in what's under the Greenbrier, the no-longer-secret Atomic Armageddon redoubt for Washington politicians. The 1950s ear Nuclear War Bunker has been operated off and on as a tourist attraction since it was outed in the 1990s.

Marriott may end up buying the property, so we suspect (hope) the Congressional Bunker may continue in some form as a place the public can tour. [Roadsideamerica.com Team, 03/19/2009]

White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia - Doomsday Bunker Reopens for Tours
In its heyday, there was no posher place for the political elite to survive the Apocalypse than at the Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. In the late 1950s, President Eisenhower, who liked to golf, secretly spent umpteen-million of your parents'/grandparents' tax dollars to have a 112,000-square-foot Congressional bunker surreptitiously dug beneath this private retreat in the Appalachian Mountains.... [10/15/2006] Complete News Story