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Appearance. Babcock State Park located along the New River Gorge. There are 37 state parks in the U.S. state of West Virginia as of 2017 [update]. [ a ] The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources (WVDNR) Parks and Recreation Section is the governing body for all 37 state parks and directly operates all but one of them.
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 ]
Glen Jean is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States, near Oak Hill.As of the 2010 census, its population is 210. [2]The area had been known as White Oaks, but when the town was founded in the early 1870s the community was named for Jean McKell, the wife of landowner Thomas G. McKell.
Thurmond is a town in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States, on the New River.The population was five at the 2020 census. During the heyday of coal mining in the New River Gorge, Thurmond was a prosperous town with a number of businesses and facilities for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.
10. Former West Virginia State Forests. Panther State Forest – Transferred to West Virginia Division of Natural Resources to become Panther Wildlife Management Area in 2008. Watoga State Forest – Established in January 1925 as Watoga State Forest. Became Watoga State Park in 1934.
Panther Wildlife Management Area. IUCN category IV (habitat/species management area) Panther Creek. Location of Panther WMA in West Virginia. Location. McDowell, West Virginia, United States. Coordinates. 37°25′24″N 81°52′35″W. / 37.42333°N 81.87639°W / 37.42333; -81.87639.
Cacapon Mountain. Cacapon Mountain (/ kəˈkeɪpən / kə-KAY-pən) runs northwest through Morgan and Hampshire Counties in West Virginia 's eastern panhandle, rising to its greatest elevation of 2,618 feet (798 m) above sea-level at High Point. Cacapon Mountain is a folded mountain ridge, belonging to the Appalachian Ridge and Valley Province.
Berkeley Springs is a town in, and the county seat of, Morgan County, West Virginia, United States, in the state's eastern panhandle. [4] Berkeley Springs is also commonly used to refer to the area in and around the Town of Bath. In 1776, the Virginia Legislature incorporated a town around the springs and named it Bath.