West Virginia's Huge Corridor H Highway Construction Moving Forward One Section at a Time

West Virginia's Corridor H Highway construction progresses section by section. Key updates outline costs and completion dates for various stretches, benefiting industries and transportation links upon full buildout in 2034.

December 17, 2025 - National Edition
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Corridor H is planned to be approximately 132 mi. long in West Virginia and another 14.4 mi. in Virginia when it is complete.

The Corridor H Highway Authority of West Virginia released the latest update on the current and future progress of the Corridor H construction project from the state's Division of Highways (WVDOH).

The information was presented Dec. 8, 2025, to the Joint Legislative Oversight Commission on Department of Transportation Accountability.

Corridor H is planned to be approximately 132 mi. long in West Virginia and another 14.4 mi. in Virginia when it is completed, likely in 2034, a full 70 years after it was first proposed in 1964.

The road begins at Interstate 79 in north-central West Virginia and head east until its end point at I-81 near its junction with I-66 at Front Royal, Va.

Due to its intersection with those two interstate highways, Corridor H will provide West Virginia's manufacturers with easy access to Front Royal, home of a huge inland port with double stack rail service to the largest and deepest port in the eastern United States at Norfolk, Va.

Among those sectors that will benefit from the new highway corridor are West Virginia's hardwood industry, which exports more than $136 million internationally.

Several Parts of Roadway Will Soon Be Completed

In the latest Corridor H Authority update, it was announced that the stretch of highway between the towns of Parsons and Davis, W.Va. is expected to be 9.2 mi. in length, with construction anticipated to begin in 2027 at a cost of $800 million.

According to a map released by the agency, the path chosen appears to be from Parsons to Davis along a route south of the existing U.S. Highway 219 to the town of Thomas.

The Kerens to Parsons portion of the project has several phases outlined beginning with the Kerens — U.S. 219 Connector, the latter of which is a 7.7 mi. stretch of road anticipated to be completed soon at an anticipated cost of $264 million.

Among the other sections noted in the latest briefing are:

• The Kerens-W.Va. Highway 72 Connector, a 7.7 mi.-long paving effort that is projected to be done in winter 2025-'26 at a cost of $33 million. This segment is a major highway building project designed to provide a modern, multi-lane connection between the existing U.S. 219 and W.Va. 72.

• The U.S. 219 Connector-W.Va. 72 Connector, a 3.75 mi. project anticipated to be finished in winter 2025-'26 at a cost of $175 million. Paving along this portion of the roadway will cost $23 million.

• The construction of the 0.94-mi.-long Cheat River Bridge, projected to finish next summer with a final price tag of $148 million.

• The W.Va. 72 Connector/Parson roadway on Corridor H is a 2.6 mi. section that is likely to finish in mid-2026 at a cost of $57 million.

• The Roaring Run Bridge, only three-tenths of a mile long, is being rebuilt for $78 million and be ready for traffic by the end of 2027.

• The Mackeyville Interchange on the new highway has not yet begun construction but will be a 0.6 mi. project due to cost $40 million with an end date set for late 2027.

• The roadway from Wardensville to the Virginia State Line is anticipated to begin construction in early 2026. According to the Corridor H Highway Authority's report, that road design is complete and the right of way process is under way. Completion of the section is anticipated in late 2030 at a cost of $542 million.

The authority, part of the West Virginia Department of Transportation, noted that currently, Interstate 79 from Weston to Kerens has 40.8 mi. of Corridor H open to traffic at an expended cost of $395 million.

It also noted that:

• The Kerens to Parsons corridor is under construction with the complete 15 mi. of work slated to be done by late 2027. So far, $778 million has been committed to the work, the report said, with $40 million needed to complete.

• The $800 million Parsons to Davis stretch of Corridor H is a 9-mi.-long section that will likely have a finished design delivered by fall 2026. Following that, the right of way process is anticipated to begin in the fall of 2028 with construction to follow in early 2031, and a completion anticipated in late 2034.

• Sixty miles of Corridor H has been opened to traffic from Davis to Wardensville after the state expended a whopping $1.083 billion to build it, according to the authority's report.

• Finally, the 7-mi. section of Corridor H from Wardensville to the Virginia State Line has a completed design phase. Its right of way process is under way and construction is set to begin in the next month or two. Work should be wrapped up in late 2030 at a cost of $542 million.