55+ Communities in West Virginia

All 4 communities sit in the Eastern Panhandle, within commuting distance of the DC/Maryland exurbs. The Villas at Warm Springs (Martinsburg, Berkeley County) is a small 14-home development explicitly marketed by its own builder as 'Berkeley County's newest 55+ Community' and its 'first 55 and older community.' Four Seasons at Huntfield (Charles Town, Jefferson County) is a K. Hovnanian Four Seasons enclave nested inside Huntfield, Jefferson County's largest master-planned community, whose general-market sections are built by other builders under ordinary family-subdivision branding -- this is West Virginia's one genuine national-brand hit, unlike the clean national-brand negatives found in Kentucky and Louisiana (Del Webb, Toll Brothers Regency, and Epcon were each searched specifically for West Virginia and returned zero results). Shepherd Village (Shepherdstown, Jefferson County) is a genuinely distinct discovery: a 30-household cohousing community the town itself zoned under an 80-percent-must-have-one-55+-member rule, with residents individually owning their homes and collectively co-governing a shared Common House -- a materially different ownership and governance model from a stock-cooperative equity-share structure like Iowa's or Minnesota's branded cooperative operators, neither of which was found to have any West Virginia location. The Woods (Hedgesville, Berkeley County) carries a genuine, disclosed evidentiary conflict: two secondary aggregators tag it age-restricted, but the large, 1,800-acre golf/vacation-home community's own marketing consistently describes a family-inclusive mix of vacation owners, retirees, and primary residents with no age-restriction language located directly.

West Virginia's Fair Housing Act (recodified from Chapter 5, Article 11A to Chapter 16B, Article 18) is independently confirmed to retain the pre-1999 federal HOPA 'significant facilities and services' formulation for its 55-and-older exemption prong, while also providing a separate, independent 62-and-older exemption prong with no such requirement. Readers should confirm this against the primary statute text before treating it as settled. The Greenbrier Sporting Club, spanning the famed Greenbrier resort's 6,750-acre estate, is tagged a '55+ Community' only by a single secondary aggregator's own page title, while the club's own materials describe an equity country club explicitly marketed to provide residents and 'your family' an exclusive lifestyle, with no age-restriction language found anywhere in its own materials. Snowshoe Mountain Resort, Canaan Valley, and Stonewall Resort were each checked specifically for this same pattern and each resolved to a clean negative -- no residential retiree-marketing angle, positive or negative, found at any of the three.