Cacapon State Park

Cacapon Mountain runs north and south and divides Morgan County into a heavily forested mountainous western segment and a more populous and settled east. The mountain ends at Panorama Overlook in the north and includes the county's highest elevation, 2320 feet, at the southern end. In 1934, the state of West Virginia and the Civilian Conservation Corps created Cacapon State Park from 6000 acres of land on the eastern slope of Cacapon Mountain, where cabins and the old lodge were built. A Nature Center opened in 2002 in what had been the living and working heart of the CCC camp. In the 1970s, an 18-hole, 72-par championship golf course designed by Robert Trem Jones was rated one of the best public courses in the region. The stone chimney on the putting green is all that remains of the land's original farmhouse, and the lake has a sand beach and is good for fishing, boating, and swimming.

West Virginia · United States