Point Pleasant is a city in Mason County, West Virginia, at the confluence of the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers. The population was 4,637 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Mason County^GR6.

Point Pleasant is most famous for a series of local legends centered on the 1967 collapse of the Silver Bridge, which killed 46 people. According to these legends, a moth-like humanoid was seen by several Point Pleasant residents in the weeks leading up to the disaster. The creature is said to have predicted the collapse. This is the source of the book and movie, The Mothman Prophecies.

The town is also noted for the October 10, 1774, Battle of Point Pleasant, in which Virginia militiamen led by Colonel Andrew Lewis defeated a force of American Indians under Chief Cornstalk. The battle is celebrated in Point Pleasant as the first battle of the American Revolutionary War

It was the final home of Confederate Brigadier-General John McCausland, the next-to-last Confederate General to die. He died in his farm at Grimm's Landing on January 23, 1927. Point Pleasant is located at 38°51′27″N, 82°7′43″W (38.857527, -82.128571)^GR1.