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Coopers Rock State Forest is a 12,747-acre (52 km 2) [1] state forest in Monongalia and Preston counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Its southern edge abuts Cheat Lake and the canyon section of Cheat River , a popular whitewater rafting river in the eastern United States .
Spruce Mountain is the tallest mountain in the state of West Virginia Back Allegheny Mountain Snowshoe Mountain is a ski resort in the Alleghenies of Pocahontas County. Mountains of West Virginia is a list of mountains in the U.S. state of West Virginia. This list includes mountains in the Appalachian range, which covers the entirety of the ...
Coal miners from West Virginia – whom locals have lovingly dubbed the “West Virginia Boys” – moved a mountain in just three days to reopen a 2.7-mile stretch of Highway 64 between Bat Cave ...
Ice Mountain is a mountain ridge and algific talus slope [4] that is part of a 149-acre (60 ha) preserve near the community of North River Mills in Hampshire County, West Virginia, United States. It was designated a National Natural Landmark in 2012.
Many landforms in West Virginia that are named 'mountain' are actually ridges and are categorized as such; Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mountains of West Virginia; See also categories Mountain ranges of West Virginia, Ridges of West Virginia
The area is located in the Appalachian Mountains of Southwestern Virginia, just north of Interstate 81 and about 3 miles west of Pulaski, Virginia. [2] In 2011, trails into the area included: [3] Tract Fork Trail, 3.9 miles, easy to moderate in difficulty. Directions to trailhead: The western trailhead can be reached from exit 47 on I-77.
One of the best-known scenic attractions in West Virginia, the sheer rock faces are a popular challenge for rock climbers. Seneca Rocks is easily visible from, and accessible by way of, West Virginia Route 28, West Virginia Route 55 and U.S. Route 33 in the Spruce Knob–Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area of the Monongahela National Forest.
Mill Creek Mountain is a continuous mountain ridge that runs northeast through Hampshire and Hardy counties in the Eastern Panhandle region of the U.S. state of West Virginia. Rising to its greatest elevation of 2,650 feet (808 m) at High Knob , Mill Creek is a folded mountain ridge, belonging to the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians .