JULY/AUGUST 2019
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BLACKWATER FALLS STATE PARK, WV
This park’s namesake cascade is reason enough to visit,
but af ter checking out the 57-foot plume on a quick ,
.4-mile out-and-back, go high. Take the Dobbin House
and Pase Point Trails roughly 1. 5 miles west through
dense hardwood forest on the nor th edge of Black water
Canyon to the Pase Point Overlook , an outcropping
that juts above the canopy and over the gorge. There,
stand high above the Nor th Fork confl uence with a view that stretches
down the canyon like a gunsight. Like what you see? On your drive
out , peel off at Lindy Point for a. 8 - mile out-and - back to this view,
where photographer Mar tin Radigan lucked into low- hanging fog
(best chances in morning). There’s no wrong way to do Blackwater
Canyon, but seeing it three ways seems the most right. PERMIT None
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