West Virginia's Beartown State Park, An Autumn Forest Wonder
Wednesday October 8, 2008
West Virginia's Beartown State Park is a natural area of 107 acres purchased in 1970 with funds from the Nature Conservancy and a donation from Mrs. Edwin G. Polan. Although it is West Virginia's smallest state park, it is probably their most beautiful one in Autumn. Beartown State Park is located on the eastern summit of Droop Mountain, seven miles southwest of Hillsboro, West Virginia. It is on the same mountain where the only major battle of the American Civil War was fought in West Virginia in 1863. Pearl S. Buck's birthplace in only minutes away.
Here is a walk-through the most beautiful forested spot in the United States in Autumn - just my opinion.
Beartown State Park - Photo by Steve Nix, Licensed to About.com
Comments
I was kind of disapointed not to see any horizontal panorama shots of the countryside full of that color you were talking about. You concentrated mainly on close ups of leaves and vertical shots of trees. It seems like “you didn’t see the forrest for the trees” as it were. Horizontals are much better than verticals in most cases.
Mr. Nix,
You have done me a terrible disservice. I spent the first 48 years of my life on the road and was more than willing to hunker down in one place. I now have two large wolfhounds who only like to explore my furniture.
This Beartown article and a number of similar articles about forested areas you have photographed and written about over the past two years have me wanting to visit some of those places. This, of course, makes it hard to stay hunkered down in one place. I especially am vulnerable to your articles describing hardwood forests photographed in places like Beartooth State Park as hardwoods are extremely lacking in my little corner of the World at the foot of the Laramie Mountains (mostly treeless due to fires and drought.
I even broke the 11th commandment a few minutes ago (Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s forest!)
Thomas Mitchell