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  2. Blackwater Falls State Park - Wikipedia

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    Blackwater Falls State Park. /  39.10889°N 79.49611°W  / 39.10889; -79.49611. Blackwater Falls State Park is located in the Allegheny Mountains of Tucker County, West Virginia, US. The centerpiece of the park is Blackwater Falls, a 62-foot (19 m) cascade where the Blackwater River leaves its leisurely course in Canaan Valley and enters ...

  3. Canaan Valley - Wikipedia

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    Canaan Valley ( locally / kəˈneɪn /) is a large bathtub-shaped upland valley in northeastern Tucker County, West Virginia, USA. Within it are extensive wetlands and the headwaters of the Blackwater River which spills out of the valley at Blackwater Falls. It is a well-known and partially undeveloped scenic attraction and tourist draw.

  4. Elakala Falls - Wikipedia

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    Elakala Waterfall #1, the most popular and well-known of the series of falls. The Elakala Falls are a series of four waterfalls of Shays Run [1] as it descends into the Blackwater Canyon in West Virginia. They are within Blackwater Falls State Park [3] and are quite popular among photographers, with the ease of access for the first waterfall ...

  5. The Most Stunning Waterfall in Every State - AOL

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    Weather. The Most Stunning Waterfall in Every State. Louis DeNicola. April 20, 2024 at 12:00 PM. ... Blackwater Falls State Park is visited year-round for hiking, swimming, boating, sledding, and ...

  6. Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge - Wikipedia

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    The Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1933 as a waterfowl sanctuary for birds migrating along the critical migration highway called the Atlantic Flyway. The refuge is located on Maryland's Eastern Shore, just 12 mi (19 km) south of Cambridge, Maryland in Dorchester County, and consists of over 28,000 acres (110 km 2) of ...

  7. Blackwater River (West Virginia) - Wikipedia

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    The Blackwater River is a 34.3-mile-long (55.2 km) river [4] in the Allegheny Mountains of eastern West Virginia, USA. Via the Black Fork, it is a principal tributary of the Cheat River. Via the Cheat, the Monongahela and the Ohio rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River and drains an area of 142 square miles (370 km 2 ).

  8. 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.

  9. Blackwater river - Wikipedia

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    A swamp-fed stream in northern Florida, showing tannin-stained undisturbed blackwater. A blackwater river is a type of river with a slow-moving channel flowing through forested swamps or wetlands. Most major blackwater rivers are in the Amazon Basin and the Southern United States. The term is used in fluvial studies, geology, geography, ecology ...