I had wanted to visit Berkeley Springs State Park in Berkeley Springs, WV, for quite some time, but it had not lined up. The state park is not big, at barely 4.5 acres is size, and parking is a real issue, as it sits right in town, a town that grew up around America's first… Continue reading Berkeley Springs State Park And George Washington’s Bathtub
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Walking The Cemeteries Of The Battle Of Antietam
The cemeteries of the Battle of Antietam and of the Battle of Shepherdstown, a few days later, are a testy subject in some ways. For one, they are disproportionate to each other. Yes. There are multiple Civil War cemeteries for the battle, but only one is a National Cemetery: the one in Sharpsburg. And that… Continue reading Walking The Cemeteries Of The Battle Of Antietam
Walking History: National Air and Space Museum
It might not have been hiking, but it was an important time for me, and it was the last field trip I'd take with my youngest child, as he graduated from 8th grade this week. His 8th-grade "big" trip in middle school was to the National Air and Space Museum (Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center) in… Continue reading Walking History: National Air and Space Museum
Fairfax Stone State Park
In what is most likely West Virginia's smallest state park, two monuments mark the farthest reaches of Lord Fairfax's land grant from colonial times. Fairfax Stone State Park comprises four acres and is named after the Fairfax Stone, a surveyor’s marker and boundary stone used in the 1700s to settle a dispute over land in… Continue reading Fairfax Stone State Park
Blackwater Falls State Park
Driving in West Virginia can be interesting, in that what shouldn't be as far away is. Because nothing is a straight line, and you have to cross a lot of mountain ridges to get into even the edge of the interior of the state, if you live in the Eastern Panhandle of the state. I… Continue reading Blackwater Falls State Park