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The park is located on the tailwater shores of Beech Fork Lake, a flood control impoundment of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the Beech Fork of Twelvepole Creek. Since its development in the mid-1970s, Beech Fork State Park has proven to be a popular recreation spot for the residents of nearby Barboursville and Huntington, West Virginia ...
Beech Fork Lake is a 720 acre (2.9 km 2) reservoir located near Lavalette in Wayne County, West Virginia, United States. Beech Fork Lake is also partly located in neighboring Cabell County . Millers Fork and Stowers Branch join Beech Fork with their own river valleys contributing to the majority of the lakesurface of Beech Fork Lake.
Initially developed as a state forest in 1926. One of West Virginia's first CCC camps was established here in 1933. The largest of West Virginia's state parks, it contains the 11-acre (4 ha) Watoga Lake. A historic district containing the park's 103 CCC resources is listed on the NRHP. [124] [196] [198] [199] Watters Smith Memorial
Beech Fork, Plymale Branch Twelvepole Creek is a 32.2-mile-long (51.8 km) [ 5 ] river located in Wayne County, West Virginia , United States. It is part of the Mississippi River watershed , by way of the Ohio River .
The former Fork Creek Wildlife Management Area was located on 7,000 acres (2,800 ha) in Boone County near Nellis, West Virginia. [1] The steep terrain and narrow valleys are mostly covered with second-growth mixed hardwoods. Originally established in 1960 with a lease from Armco Steel, the land was subsequently purchased by Island Creek Coal.
The park is located near Union in Monroe County, West Virginia. The park sits on the shores of 144-acre (0.58 km 2) Moncove Lake, and underneath the flyway of the fall eastern hawk migration. The current park superintendent is John Dempsey, a West Virginia native and life-long resident. Power boats on Moncove Lake are limited to 5 horsepower (3 ...
Cedar Creek State Park is sited on 2,588 acres (1,047 ha) [2] along Cedar Creek [4] in Gilmer County, West Virginia, located about 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Glenville.Two of the buildings at the park are historical restorations of West Virginia's pioneer days, including a log cabin now used as the campground check-in station, and the Pine Run One Room School, an old one-room schoolhouse ...
Sleepy Creek Wildlife Management Area is located in Morgan and Berkeley Counties in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. It encompasses 22,928 acres (92.79 km 2), mostly covered with mixed oak and pine forest, although about 3,500 acres (14 km 2) are covered with mixed hardwoods. [1]