Year Round Pike Island Locks and Dam is one of six major river facilities on the upper Ohio River.
Visitors can view operations from the parking area and overlook or tour the locks.
The lock chambers lie on the West Virginia side of the Ohio River along West Virginia Route 2, just north of the Warwood district of the city of Wheeling. The villages of Yorkville, site of a large steel plant, and Tiltonsville are across the river in Ohio. The Pike Island locks were constructed from 1959-63, and were opened in November 1963. The dam was constructed from 1962-65. These had smaller lock chambers with old-style wooden wicket dams which were raised and lowered manually by the lock crews to maintain the required navigation depth in the river.