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R. Rock Springs Park. Categories: Amusement parks in the United States by state or territory. Tourist attractions in West Virginia. Entertainment venues in West Virginia. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.
Website. Camden Park. Camden Park is a twenty-six acre amusement park located near Huntington, West Virginia. Established in 1903 as a picnic spot by the Camden Interstate Railway Company, it is one of only thirteen trolley parks that remain open in the United States. Whereas most trolley parks were located at the end of trolley lines, Camden ...
The Lake Shawnee Amusement Park is a defunct amusement park in Princeton, West Virginia, United States, located along Lake Shawnee. Opened in 1926, the park operated for 62 years before closing in 1988. [1][2] It received public attention for urban legends regarding the park being haunted due to accidental deaths supposedly caused by "cursed land".
C. C. & Grace Macdonald (1926–1934) Robert & Virginia Hand (1935–1970) Rock Springs Park is a defunct amusement park once located in Chester, West Virginia, Hancock County. The park officially began operation in 1897, and closed in 1970 after the death of its final owner, Robert Hand. After four years of disuse, the land was bought by the ...
Harveytown Park is one of the newest parks in the Harveytown district. It features currently six picnic tables, one of which is handicap accessible, an electrical outlet, a grill, water fountain, and restrooms. Construction on Phase I of the new park began on October 28, 2003. The financing and coordination was a joint effort between the city ...
Cass Scenic Railroad State Park is a state park and heritage railroad located in Cass, Pocahontas County, West Virginia. It consists of the Cass Scenic Railroad, a 11-mile (18 km) long 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge heritage railway owned by the West Virginia State Rail Authority and operated by the Durbin and Greenbrier Valley ...
In 1957, the state of West Virginia made its first land acquisition with an eye toward further developing a ski industry in West Virginia. Sarah Maude Thompson Kaemmerling granted 3,149 acres (12.74 km 2 ) to the state in the 1950s for the formation of a state park [ 6 ] with the stipulation that the state make a matching 3,000-acre (12 km 2 ...
Hawks Nest State Park is located on 370 acres (150 ha) [2] in Fayette County near Ansted, West Virginia. The park's clifftop overlook along U.S. Route 60 provides a scenic vista of the New River, some 750 feet (230 m) below. [4] The hydro-electric project tunnel that passes underneath nearby Gauley Mountain was the scene of the Depression -era ...