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Hancock, West Virginia, United States: Coordinates: Area: 1,398 acres (5.66 km 2) Elevation: 1,109 ft (338 m) Established: 1935 [2] Named for: Tomlinson Run, tributary of Ohio River: Governing body: West Virginia Division of Natural Resources: Website
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
This is a list of lakes in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all. Ada Lake; Alpine Lake ...
Hikers can view 29 waterfalls in West Virginia along the nation's first statewide waterfall trail in the youngest national park, New River Gorge.
Thompson Town is an unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia, United States. It is part of the Mount Gay-Shamrock census-designated place . References
As part of the restoration efforts, drainage pumps were turned off and one of the natural lake beds within the Project, Thompson Lake, began to refill. As of 2008, Thompson Lake was a 2,000-acre (8.1 km 2) lake within the Project. This compares to the lake's original size of 1,800-acre (7.3 km 2) when it was a
Summit Lake is a 43-acre (170,000 m 2) cold water reservoir located in Greenbrier County, West Virginia in the Gauley Ranger District of the Monongahela National Forest.The reservoir is formed by the impoundment of the waters of two forks of Coats Run, a small tributary of the North Fork of the Cherry River.
The Chesapeake Gateways and Watertrails Network, originally the Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network, was established through the authority of the Chesapeake Bay Initiative Act, which was passed by the United States Congress in 1998 in order "to establish a linked network of locations, such as parks, historic seaports, or museums—known as gateways—where the public can access and experience the ...