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  2. Babcock State Park - Wikipedia

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    Babcock State Park is a state park located along the New River Gorge on 4,127 acres (16.7 km 2) wooded [2] in Fayette County, West Virginia. It is located approximately 20 miles away from the New River Gorge Bridge . Located near the park headquarters, the Glade Creek Grist Mill is commonly photographed. [3] [4] [5] It was named in honor of ...

  3. List of West Virginia state parks - Wikipedia

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    List of West Virginia state parks. 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. [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.

  4. Beury Mountain Wildlife Management Area - Wikipedia

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    WVDNR District 4 Wildlife Management Areas. Beury Mountain Wildlife Management Area is located on 9,232 acres (3,736 ha) [1] [2] near Babcock State Park and New River Gorge National River in Fayette County, West Virginia. Beury Mountain's sloping terrain is covered with mixed hardwoods and oak - hickory second growth woodlands overlooking New ...

  5. Beartown State Park - Wikipedia

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    Beartown State Park is a 110-acre (45 ha) [1] state park located on the eastern summit of Droop Mountain, 7 miles (11 km) southwest of Hillsboro, West Virginia, in northern Greenbrier County, West Virginia (with a small portion of the park also located in Pocahontas County ). The land was purchased in 1970 with funds from the Nature Conservancy ...

  6. New River Gorge National Park and Preserve - Wikipedia

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    The New River Gorge National Park and Preserve is a unit of the United States National Park Service (NPS) designed to protect and maintain the New River Gorge in southern West Virginia in the Appalachian Mountains. Established in 1978 as a national river and redesignated in 2020, the park and preserve stretches for 53 miles (85 km) from just ...

  7. Clifftop, Fayette County, West Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Clifftop is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. Attractions. It is the home of historic Camp Washington-Carver Complex, which hosts the Appalachian String Band Music Festival the first weekend in August. This community is also home of Babcock State Park. Notes

  8. Coopers Rock State Forest - Wikipedia

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    wvstateparks.com /park /coopers-rock-state-forest / Coopers Rock State Forest is a 12,747-acre (52 km 2 ) [1] state forest in Monongalia and Preston counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia . Its southern edge abuts Cheat Lake and the canyon section of Cheat River , a popular whitewater rafting river in the eastern United States .

  9. State park - Wikipedia

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    Niagara Falls State Park, New York, US American bison in Custer State Park, South Dakota, US Bodie State Historical Park, California, US Babcock State Park, West Virginia, US An example of New Deal developments in U.S. state parks: Bunker Tower, Cheaha State Park, Alabama, US Mount Worth State Park. Victoria, Australia