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
Tag: West Virginia State Parks
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
Visiting Cacapon Resort State Park
Kirk, the youngest child, and I went out for a drive last weekend. I wanted to see Morgan County, the last county in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. We took 45 (Martinsburg Pike/ Shepherds Road from Shepherdstown, then got onto 9 (Hedgesville Road/Martinsburg Road) in Martinsburg, and headed to Hedgesville, home to Gourmet Goddess,… Continue reading Visiting Cacapon Resort State Park