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Friday, May 27, 2016

Beartown State Park

On our way home on Wednesday, we made a stop at Beartown State Park, just off US 219 in West Virginia. As state parks go, it's quite small (107 acres).

We were intrigued -- the park features a boardwalk loop trail on top of a mountain. Usually boardwalk trails go through wetlands. But here the terrain is so full of holes and crevices, that the boardwalk makes for a solid footing.
The park preserves some unique sandstone formations.
Colorful sandstone bluff.
The boardwalk planners had quite a job to lay out a path through the rocks.
The walk was much like a totally natural version of the Nek Chand Rock Garden in Chandigarh. (Although it lacked the whimsical statues!)


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