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A town that kept its nuclear bunker a secret for three decades

The people of White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, helped keep the Greenbrier resort's bunker—designed to hold the entirety of Congress—hidden from 1958 to 1992

Nestled in the Allegheny Mountain town of White Sulphur Springs, the Greenbrier has expanded over the centuries, growing from a series of summer cottages to a palatial hotel surrounded by gardens and golf courses. Thanks to this discretion, nearly 35 years passed before the rest of the country learned the truth: The Greenbrier’s West Virginia Wing sat atop a nuclear bunker buried 720 feet underground. A diagram of the bunker, which was hidden beneath the resort's West Virginia Wing Courtesy of the GreenbrierPeggy Boso, a retired teacher from White Sulphur Springs, used to babysit at the hotel.

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