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Elk
River Area Attractions
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are just some of the many shops
and attractions you'll find in
the shadow of the Elk River and Snowshoe
Mountain areas of West Virginia.
For more attraction information,
visit WVExplorer's
Potomac Highlands section. |
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Cass,
West Virginia
(WV) 24927
Tel: 800-CALL-WVA
Email: cassrr@neumedia.net
Ascend to the
summit of West
Virginia's
second-highest
mountain on an
old-time logging
train at Cass
Scenic Railroad.
Vintage steam
locomotives
carry passengers
eleven miles to
the heights
of Back
Allegheny
Mountain near
Snowshoe
Mountain. Shops,
exhibits,
restaurants, and
a railroad
station serve
a village
of cottages,
hiking trails,
overlooks, and
picnic areas. |
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Hillsboro,
West Virginia
(WV) 24946
Tel:
304-653-4826
Upon this
highland bog in
the Monongahela
National Forest,
rare plants --
including three
carnivorous
species -- live
among the peat.
An interpretive
boardwalk
leads observers
through
transitional
forest and along
the edges of
spongy
ground along
two small
glades. The
acidic glades
are home to
flora more
typical of
Canada, stranded
in the cool
Appalachian
highlands after
the last Ice
Age. Trails lead
across the edges
of the glades
into the remote
forests of the
Cranberry
Wilderness and
the Cranberry
Backcountry.
Overlooks along
the adjacent
Highland Scenic
Highway provide
expansive views
of the glades
and many other
scenic areas.
Also nearby, the
Falls of Hills
Creek, the
highest falls
in West
Virginia, makes
for another
notable visit. |
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Greenbank,
West Virginia
(WV) 24944
The world's
largest moveable
radio dish rises
above the
pastures at the
National Radio
Astronomy
Observatory at
Greenbank, about
30-minutes east
of Snowshoe
Mountain. The
surrounding
mountains
insulate the
site from
electromagnetic
interference
that's
continuously
generated among
the great cities
of the East. The
observatory and
its radio dishes
are featured on
tours of the
observatory.
Further north,
in the National
Radio Quiet
Zone, the Naval
Radio Station at
Sugar Grove, in
Pendleton
County, makes
further use of
the mountain
buffers. Free
observatory
tours are
provided daily
mid-June through
Labor Day,
beginning at 9
a.m., every hour
on the hour
until 4 p.m. and
on weekends in
September and
October. |
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Hillsboro,
West Virginia
(WV) 24946
Tel:
304-653-4430
E-mail:omb00996@mail.wvnet.edu
Nobel
Prize-winning
author Pearl
Sydenstricker
Buck spent her
younger days in
this quaint town
in "The
Little
Levels" on
U.S. 219 in
southern
Pocahontas
County. West
Virginia culture
figured greatly
in her works,
though her
adopted China
was the setting
for most, such
as her novel
"The Good
Earth."
Buck's white
frame homeplace,
c. 1892, has
been converted
into a museum. |
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