Cacapon Mountain Overlook offers one of the few places on a clear day where four states—West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania—can be seen. Cacapon Mountain is the highest point in West Virginia’s eastern panhandle, with its highest point just south of the overlook at over 2,400 feet and the overlook itself at 2,285 feet. Cacapon State Park, an original Civilian Conservation Corps park, opened to its first visitors on July 1, 1937, and July 1, 2012 marked its seventy-fifth anniversary. The Civilian Conservation Corps, begun by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression, was designed primarily to assist young men through education and job training and to prepare them for an uncertain future. The path atop Cacapon Mountain was originally envisioned as a smaller version of Skyline Drive, but that vision was interrupted by World War II. From 1934 to 1941, Civilian Conservation Corps workers at Cacapon State Park initiated conservation measures and constructed new recreation resources, laying the stonework foundations that have endured there.
