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Cave Branch Trail

<p>Cave Branch Trail follows the stream corridor of Cave Branch, a small tributary of Tygarts Creek that has been the primary agent carving the Carter Caves complex over the last two million years as ...

August 29, 2025
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Smoky Bridge Trail

<p>Smoky Bridge Trail loops through the surface landscape of Carter Caves State Resort Park, connecting three significant natural sandstone bridge formations while providing trail access to the entran...

August 27, 2025
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Moonbow Trail

<p>The Moonbow Trail loops along the Cumberland River gorge rim, connecting the downstream river access points with a dedicated moonbow viewing platform that was constructed to optimize the lunar rain...

August 25, 2025
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Eagle Falls Trail

<p>Eagle Falls Trail crosses the Cumberland River via a seasonal ford or footbridge and climbs the opposite bank to reach Eagle Falls—a 44-foot cascade on a tributary of the Cumberland that offers a c...

August 23, 2025
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Cumberland Falls Trail

<p>The Cumberland Falls Trail leads to one of the most celebrated waterfall spectacles in the eastern United States—a 125-foot-wide, 68-foot-drop waterfall on the Cumberland River known as the Niagara...

August 21, 2025
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Whittleton Branch Trail

<p>Whittleton Branch Trail follows the Whittleton Branch stream upstream through one of the Red River Gorge area's most arch-rich corridors, passing multiple sandstone arch formations of varying scale...

August 19, 2025
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Hood's Branch Trail

<p>Hood's Branch Trail explores a richer and less-visited portion of Natural Bridge State Resort Park's sandstone arch landscape, connecting two geological features—Henson's Cave arch and Balanced Roc...

August 17, 2025
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Original Trail

<p>The Original Trail delivers the most direct and historically authentic route to Natural Bridge's magnificent sandstone arch—a 65-foot-high, 78-foot-span natural bridge carved from Corbin Sandstone ...

August 15, 2025
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Seneca Trail South

<p>Seneca Trail South follows the historic Seneca Trail corridor—one of the most important Native American travel routes in the central Appalachians, used for centuries by the Seneca Iroquois and othe...

August 13, 2025
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Ann Bailey Trail

<p>The Ann Bailey Trail honors the legendary frontier scout and messenger whose exploits during the American Revolutionary War period made her a celebrated figure in Greenbrier Valley history, followi...

August 11, 2025
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Arrowhead Trail

<p>The Arrowhead Trail loops through the heart of Watoga State Park, West Virginia's largest state park at nearly 10,000 acres, penetrating one of the most extensive old-growth hardwood forests access...

August 9, 2025
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Canaan Valley Wetlands Walk

<p>Canaan Valley Wetlands Walk traverses the edge of one of the most biologically significant and geologically unique freshwater wetland complexes in the eastern United States—a 14,000-acre high-eleva...

August 7, 2025

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