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.
Beartown State Park, A Forest and Geologic Wonder
By Steve Nix, About.com Guide
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Beartown State Park Walkway and Entrance
Beartown Entrance
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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, in memory of her son, Ronald Keith Neal, who lost his life in the Vietnam War. Although it is West Virginia's smallest state park, it is probably their most beautiful one in autumn.
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- Beartown State Park Walkway and Entrance
- The Beartown Ecosystem
- Beartown Hemlock and Droop Geology
- Beartown's Unique Droop Geology
- Beartown's Tree Species in Autumn Color
- Beartown Boardwalk in Autumn
- Beartown Chestnut Oak
- Beartown Stripped Maple
- Beartown Sassifras
- Beartown Red Maple Leaf
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